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Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed by Clayton Koelb
€28.12This is a student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work. Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like... -
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard de Fontenelle 9780520071711
RRP: €24.99€19.36Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering the possibility of travelers from the moon. 'What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their... -
Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture by Elizabeth D. Harvey 9780812218299
RRP: €35.69€30.93This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the... -
Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture by Northrop Frye 9780802086952
RRP: €51.17€44.28In the 1970s and 80s, Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson co-taught a very influential course at the University of Toronto's Victoria College on the history of Western mythology - Frye focusing on the biblical myths; Macpherson on the classical. Biblical... -
The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries by R. R. Bolgar
RRP: €55.92€45.86Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Reviews'Mr Bolgar continually suppies concrete and... -
Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 by David L. Pike
RRP: €41.65€36.37The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In... -
History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4 by Giacomo Casanova
€51.68Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison-each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.The... -
Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance by Laura Giannetti 9780801872587
RRP: €33.32€28.62At the turn of the sixteenth century, Italian playwrights rediscovered and recast an old art form-the ancient Latin comedy-to create witty, ribald, and intricately plotted plays that delighted Renaissance audiences with their clever reversals of gender... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: €20.22€17.39Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in an... -
German Stories/Deutsche Erzahlungen: A Bilingual En Face Anthology by Harry Steinhauer 9780520268159
RRP: €29.75€22.82The short stories in this bilingual anthology are from the works of some of the great masters of the German literary tradition - including Goethe, Glister, Mann, and Kafka - and offer a representative collection illustrating the development of German... -
The Gray Book by Aris Fioretos 9780804735384
RRP: €28.55€24.80Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. Marking the threshold region where luminous life seems suspended but death has not yet darkened the horizon, it belongs to an evasive and... -
The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque by J. A. Garrido Ardila
RRP: €36.88€26.05Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express... -
Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression by Jenny DiPlacidi
RRP: €29.75€25.93The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling,... -
The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction by Rosemary Marangoly George
RRP: €32.13€24.55The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary... -
Shakespeare and the Poets' War by James Bednarz 9780231122436
RRP: €41.65€32.38In 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 Theaters" since... -
Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi by Victor Brombert
RRP: €13.69€13.38“All art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality, “allow us to negate our nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immersed... -
The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
RRP: €47.60€39.97In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved,... -
The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s by Winifred Hughes 9780691615578
RRP: €35.70€34.66Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature,... -
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land": Essays, Articles, Reviews by Nick Selby
€31.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNick Selby teaches at the University of Wales, Swansea.Book InformationISBN 9780231124256Author Nick SelbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Columbia... -
Goethe: Faust Part One by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: €28.55€23.79Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of... -
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher 9780231162654
RRP: €26.18€23.67Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a... -
Lectura Dantis, Purgatorio by Allen Mandelbaum 9780520250567
RRP: €36.89€28.50This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume "Lectura Dantis", contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the... -
A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present by Eda Sagarra
RRP: €51.11€45.18Presents, in an immensely readable yet profoundly scholarly account, the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the wider context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of... -
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland: Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: €32.13€24.55The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive... -
Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting by Harald Weinrich
RRP: €71.40€60.62"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and science presuppose-with sympathy or antipathy-forgetting,... -
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis by Theodoros Chiotis
RRP: €13.08€9.09Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international poets with Greek connections. These bold, impassioned and critically aware texts stake new poetic and political ground: they articulate what it means to live... -
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell
RRP: €36.88€27.67A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each... -
The Subject of Crusade: Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500 by Marisa Galvez
RRP: €30.94€29.57In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives in lyric poetry, putting words to the experience of... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture by Nathan Abrams
RRP: €41.59€40.25Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture is the first collection of its kind on this subject. The volume brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence... -
Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc by Gustaf Sobin 9780520253353
RRP: €35.70€32.59Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene - these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the... -
Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity by Stefan Jonsson
RRP: €32.12€27.19This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Prior to its destruction in 1918,... -
Darkness Visible: Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials by Nicholas Tucker
RRP: €10.70€7.97What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes - and who, or what, is Dust?Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials has been appreciated by... -
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
RRP: €32.13€24.55Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of "The House by the Medlar Tree" ("I Malavoglia") makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the... -
The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti 9781781680858
RRP: €17.84€11.54"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member... -
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan Sniader Lanser
RRP: €33.32€32.59The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch court... -
Believing in Dante: Truth in Fiction by Alison Cornish
€36.09Alison Cornish offers a compelling new take on the Commedia with modern sensibilities in mind. Believing in Dante re-examines the infernal dramas of Dante's masterpiece that alienate and perplex modern readers, offering an invigorating view of the whole... -
In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature 1930-1980 by Victor Brombert
RRP: €28.56€27.41Through 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... -
Conrad's Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory by Nidesh Lawtoo
RRP: €26.12€21.37Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of... -
Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult by Leigh Wilson
RRP: €34.50€31.40While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as an attempt to draw on a hidden history of ideas,... -
Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility by Hina Nazar
RRP: €58.31€49.74Enlightened Sentiments reassesses the enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism." Nazar argues that the recent retrieval of sentimentalism as a predominantly...