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Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage / Fascinations / Frames by Stephen G. Nichols 9780801887369
RRP: $115.05$101.13How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? While few would question that the human senses encountered a profoundly different environment in the medieval world, two distinct and opposite interpretations of that encounter have... -
The Novel of Crepuscular Universes - Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Witold Gombrowicz, Gunter Grass, Curzio Malaparte, Heinrich Boell, L.- by Ion Vlad 9780880336635
RRP: $68.25$54.09Ion Vlad investigates the distinct heraldry of "the novel of ideas" and whether this taxonomy is still viable within the wide and heterogeneous sphere of narrative. He closely reads the work of Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Witold... -
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s by Richard Golsan 9780801882586
RRP: $100.43$88.55Focusing on the political commitments of three French writers who collaborated with the Vichy Regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, and on those of three leading French intellectuals of the 1990s whose misplaced political idealism led them to... -
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form by Debarati Sanyal 9780801883088
RRP: $105.30$92.74The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as... -
In the Realms of Biography, Literature, Politics - Polish and East-Central European Joseph Conrad by Wieslaw Krajka 9780880336819
RRP: $33.13$27.40The literary studies comprised in nineteenth volume of the "Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives" series, compare fact v. fiction/non-fiction, ideas, literary works, translations, literature and film. The works by Joseph Conrad analyzed in... -
Models of Representation in Czech Literary History by Petr A. Bilek 9780880336802
RRP: $81.90$64.43In the last twenty years of their academic engagement in the field of literary history, the authors have focused predominantly on the explorations of various possible ways of writing literary history with the impulses and inspiration produced by recent... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Vol. 105 by Kathleen M. Coleman 9780674053441
RRP: $85.70$68.54This volume includes "Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions" by Carolyn Higbie; "Aristotle's Hamartia Reconsidered" by Ho Kim; "Callimachus and his Allusive Virgins" by Andrew Faulkner; "Theokritos' Idyll... -
Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation by Barbara K. Lewalski 9780674760417
RRP: $42.80$35.14Today genre studies are flourishing, and nowhere more vigorously perhaps than in the field of Renaissance literature, given the importance to Renaissance writers of questions of genre. These studies have been nourished, as Barbara Lewalski points out, by... -
Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation by Barbara K. Lewalski 9780674760400
RRP: $93.50$75.35Today genre studies are flourishing, and nowhere more vigorously perhaps than in the field of Renaissance literature, given the importance to Renaissance writers of questions of genre. These studies have been nourished, as Barbara Lewalski points out, by... -
The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet by Gilbert Highet 9780231051040
RRP: $220.35$172.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231051040Author Gilbert HighetFormat HardbackPage Count 381Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Donne's Idea of a Woman: Structure and Meaning in The Anniversaries by Edward W. Tayler 9780231075947
RRP: $171.60$134.06'Book InformationISBN 9780231075947Author Edward TaylerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael by Madame De Stael 9780231055864
RRP: $195.00$152.74Collects letters, novellas, essays, criticism, and a play by a leading intellectual of the Romantic period.Book InformationISBN 9780231055864Author Madame De StaelFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University... -
Shakespeare and the Poets' War by James Bednarz 9780231122429
RRP: $220.35$172.13In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the... -
Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare: Romances by Geoffrey Bullough 9780231088961
RRP: $243.75$190.05Shakespeare's writing is filled with ideas, images, plots and characters borrowed or interpreted from other dramatists and poets. This work gathers together the sources and traces the relationship of these texts to Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works... -
In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980 by Victor Brombert 9780226075525
RRP: $156.00$149.39Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of... -
Ibsen's Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy by Theoharis Constantine Theoharis 9780312221492
RRP: $72.15$49.24Ibsen's Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy argues that in his late plays Ibsen struggled with, and finally repudiated the Aristotelian ideas of reality and change that held sway over the earlier part of his career, and more generally over nineteenth... -
Strindberg: Five Plays by August Strindberg 9780520046986
RRP: $46.80$41.38Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed plays - "The Father", "Miss Julie", "A Dream Play", "The Dance of Death", and "The Ghost Sonata" - are gathered together here in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.About the... -
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks by Peter Gay 9780393325096
RRP: $33.15$27.34Focusing on three literary masterpieces-Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)-Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a... -
Pornoboscodidascalus Latinus (1624): Kaspar Barth's Neo-Latin Translation of Celestina by Enrique Fernandez-Rivera 9780807892886
$78.60In 1624 the German erudite Kaspar Barth translated the Spanish book Celestina (1499) into Neo-Latin with the title Pornoboscodidascalus (""teacher of the brothel master""). The translation, intended for the cultivated readers who still used Latin as... -
The Peregrine Muse by Robert J. Clements 9780807890820
RRP: $58.40$55.59Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books--and the identity of... -
The Peregrine Muse by Robert J. Clements 9780807890318
RRP: $58.40$56.51These essays illustrate how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers: Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even down to such as modern as Rilke.Book... -
Resonant Themes: Literature, History, and the Arts in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe by Stirling Haig 9780807892671
RRP: $58.40$56.73This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Henri Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though their subjects range broadly over the literature, music,... -
Studies in Romance Philology and Literature by Mario A. Pei 9780807890448
RRP: $58.40$55.03Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia University. This volume of Pei's scholarly articles was selected by his students and colleagues, and... -
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 9780393002744
RRP: $40.95$34.05A new edition of a satire on Richardson's PAMELA, featuring the character of Parson Adams. With explanatory notes by A R Humphreys.About the AuthorMary Ellen Chase (b. 1887 - d.1973) taught at Smith College for many years and was the author of a number... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by David A. Brewer 9781421449135
RRP: $80.93$77.90The latest groundbreaking work in eighteenth-century studies.Showcasing exciting new research across disciplines, Volume 53 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the juxtaposition between the fanciful romances and historical realities of the... -
The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction by Mark Andryczyk 9781442643321
RRP: $76.05$66.53The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In this... -
In Fielding′s Wake by Jeremy Black 9781587314285
RRP: $35.10$30.03In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intelligence and enduring influence is in large part reliant on the underlining conservatism that has motivated... -
Portrait Stories by Michal Peled Ginsburg 9780823262601
RRP: $76.05$66.53What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James,... -
Expressway to Perfect Chinese Pronunciation by Yuyuan Zhao 9789042909618
RRP: $74.10$70.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042909618Author Yuyuan ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 33Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers -
A Hindi Reference Grammar by Stella Sandahl 9789042908802
$49.30This grammar is a reference grammar of the modern Hindi language as it is written, spoken and taught in the Hindi-speaking areas of North India. It describes the phonological, morphological and grammatical features of the Hindi language as clearly as... -
The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts by Hans Jacob Orning 9788776749354
RRP: $70.20$58.34The reality of the fantastic combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsoegur and riddarasoegur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various... -
Romantik 5: Journal for the study of romanticisms by Robert W. Rix 9788771842111
$55.98The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian... -
Dark Continent?: Images of Africa in European Narratives about the Congo by Frits Andersen 9788771248531
RRP: $97.50$91.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771248531Author Frits AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 692Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Zeitschriften ALS Knotenpunkte Der Moderne/N: Prag - Brunn - Wien by Lena Dorn 9783825369996
RRP: $117.00$96.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825369996Author Lena DornFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 776g -
Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages by Aisling Byrne 9782503566733
$208.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503566733Author Aisling ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 290g -
The European Nabokov Web, Classicism and T.S. Eliot by Robin Davies 9781936235650
RRP: $165.73$159.04Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's Pale Fire has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in... -
Harris's Requiem by Stanley Middleton 9781842331231
RRP: $19.48$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842331231Author Stanley MiddletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions -
Changing Satire: Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600-1830 by Cecilia Rosengren 9781526146113
RRP: $175.50$153.68This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire... -
Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond by Zeno Vernyik 9781793622259
RRP: $183.30$161.19Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's... -
Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918 by Nanette Norris 9781611478037
RRP: $171.60$26.05New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion...