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Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
RRP: $17.53$6.67Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and... -
Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith 9780748647415
RRP: $38.98$34.63This is the new edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
$61.46The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: $77.98$70.32The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff
RRP: $52.63$49.63This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The... -
Tolstoy in Context by Anna A. Berman
$156.84Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780231176293
RRP: $42.90$33.13First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual... -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $58.40$46.00After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $42.90$31.02An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin 9780801897795
RRP: $49.73$42.88This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view. Known for his acuity... -
Critical Perspectives on Max Porter by David Rudrum 9781032662367
RRP: $263.25$228.70Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study... -
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson
RRP: $44.83$37.13In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas... -
From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures by Janet Clare
RRP: $175.50$129.30Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality. Challenging the traditional period divide of 1660, essays in this volume explore continuities with the... -
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song by Douglas Young
RRP: $13.55$11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950262994Author Douglas YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Fear, Reverence, Terror by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $48.75$41.57We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: $25.33$16.69When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic by Catherine Bates
RRP: $50.68$47.19Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii by W. J. Leatherbarrow
RRP: $50.68$44.56Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While remaining accessible to an undergraduate and non-specialist readership, the essays as a whole seek to renegotiate the terms in which... -
The Drama of Language: Essays on Goethe and Kleist by Sigurd Burckhardt
RRP: $51.68$44.50Originally published in 1970. For Sigurd Burckhardt, literary interpretation began with the discovery of an "inconsistency" in a text. Minimizing the possibility that the writer has "unconsciously" fallen into an inconsistency in the use of material, the... -
Collected Screenplays 2 by Harold Pinter 9780571203246
RRP: $48.75$33.93There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate craftmanship and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other writers, makes the three... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
$111.75In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Henry IV Part I by Steve Longstaffe
RRP: $15.58$11.62York Notes Advanced have been written by acknowledged literature experts for the specific needs of advanced level and undergraduate students. They offer a fresh and accessible approach to the study of English literature.Building on the successful formula... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: $21.43$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075347Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Republics and Kingdoms Compared by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
RRP: $58.40$45.22Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: $29.25$29.00The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by... -
Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship by Professor Karl Kügle 9781837650057
RRP: $58.48$57.02The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe. The house of Luxembourg between 1308 and 1437 is best known today for its... -
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City by Alev Adil 9780863566745
RRP: $25.33$17.43Cyprus' capital Nicosia has been split by a militarised border for decades. In this collection, writers from all sides of the divide reimagine the past, present and future of their city. Here, Cypriot-Greeks coexist alongside Cypriot-Turks, the north... -
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: $64.35$58.48This series is conceived as a library of bilingual editions of works chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In each volume an Italian text in an authoritative edition is... -
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 9780571333721
RRP: $21.43$14.27Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard's witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened... -
Theories of Mimesis by Arne Melberg
RRP: $60.43$44.56Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis... -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: $48.73$43.62Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of... -
How to Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: $13.63$9.44William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and movies, in love and war, in the public world of... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: $58.40$45.22The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,... -
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $62.40$48.11-- Modern PhilologyNot only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation,... -
The Chanson des Chetifs and Chanson de Jerusalem: Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle by Dr. Carol Sweetenham 9781138307247
RRP: $77.98$68.37The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its... -
Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society by Northrop Frye
RRP: $25.33$23.89This collection of a dozen major essays written in recent year is vintage Frye-the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus Mundi-the title comes from one of Yeat's best known poems,... -
Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853993138
RRP: $44.83$44.56Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally admired of Pushkin's stories, it has earned a high place... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: $52.55$47.93In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland by Padraig Rooney
RRP: $21.43$14.43In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre... -
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: $29.25$29.00When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of...