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Martin Buber's I and Thou by Simon Ravenscroft
RRP: $13.65$12.83Martin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an 'I' towards a... -
Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays by Lewis Vaughn 9780197751916
RRP: $54.58$50.74Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays is a concise, self-guided manual that covers the basics of argumentative essay writing and encourages students to master fundamental skills quickly, with minimal instructor input. Opening... -
Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author by Laura Seymour
RRP: $13.65$12.83Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text... -
Studying English Literature by Dr. Ashley Chantler
$63.69This is a new textbook designed to help new undergraduates adopt a degree-level approach to the study of English literature in their first or foundation year. "Studying English Literature" offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by... -
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: $48.30$34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030934Author J. D. McClatchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Connell Guide to The American Novel 1880-1940 by Stephen Fender
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187578Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
New Light on Tony Harrison by Edith Hall 9780197266519
RRP: $94.50$94.46New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: $29.93$23.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Eric Karpeles
RRP: $25.18$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372587Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: $50.40$48.36For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The... -
Black British Feminism: A Reader by Heidi Safia Mirza 9780415152891
RRP: $79.78$70.10Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an... -
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader by Rosalind Minsky 9780415092210
RRP: $92.38$80.72What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and... -
The Muses on Their Lunch Hour by Marjorie Garber
RRP: $46.18$41.73As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice... -
Hampshire: through writers' eyes by Alastair Langlands
RRP: $27.28$18.06Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness. Those rounded chalk hills have... -
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou 9781844086153
RRP: $23.08$15.54A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry has stirred our souls,... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: $33.58$24.38From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship between writers... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: $33.58$24.38Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: $67.20$43.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
RRP: $27.28$24.51A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
How to Begin Studying English Literature by Nicholas Marsh 9781137508775
$53.45How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded throughout, and now includes more examples and... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: $25.18$23.86"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter 9781555975081
RRP: $37.80$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm... -
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq 9781509549955
RRP: $42.00$28.04The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When... -
Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $54.58$46.28Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as... -
The Making of Us by James Hawes 9781913083045
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083045Author James HawesFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao
RRP: $58.80$47.92A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on... -
Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781894574013
RRP: $33.60$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894574013Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books -
The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame 9780199358854
RRP: $52.48$39.63The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full... -
Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love": A Reader's Guide by Roger Clark 9780826414786
$37.99A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. A team of... -
Pastoral by Terry Gifford
RRP: $41.98$37.15Updated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the study of pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins through to contemporary writing and introduces the major writers and... -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam 9780415280181
RRP: $54.58$47.52The late twentieth century saw an explosion of interest in semiotics, the science of the signs and processes by which we communicate. In this study, the first of its kind in English, Keir Elam shows how this new 'science' can provide a radical shift in... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415910019
RRP: $79.78$72.87Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World by John Walsh
RRP: $27.28$18.06Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing -... -
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
RRP: $95.53$94.44This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin 9780241239971
RRP: $42.00$28.64A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: $31.50$23.02John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present by Eric A. Havelock 9780300043822
RRP: $37.80$36.94When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content and meaning of texts? In this book, one of the most original and penetrating thinkers in Greek studies... -
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories by Vernon Lee 9780198837541
RRP: $16.78$12.22I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of... -
Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein by Horace Walpole
RRP: $23.08$17.70Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly...