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Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
RRP: $20.98$20.14Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
$108.53This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle by Sally Ledger
RRP: $41.98$37.42Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $23.08$16.32In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma by Gabriele Schwab 9780231152570
RRP: $58.80$45.78From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab... -
Arthur Ransome on the Broads by Roger Wardale
RRP: $33.58$22.79In Arthur Ransome on the Broads Roger Wardale tells the inside story of the two classic children's novels, Coot Club and The Big Six, that stemmed from the eight holidays that Ransome and his wife spent cruising in hired craft on the Norfolk Broads in... -
An Analysis of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination Ismael Puga 9781912127092
RRP: $13.65$12.83C. Wright Mills's 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a... -
Folklore: The Basics Simon J. Bronner 9781138774957
RRP: $41.98$37.15Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not... -
An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History Pilar Zazueta 9781912128662
RRP: $13.65$12.83Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories... -
Spiritual Shakespeares Ewan Fernie 9780415319676
RRP: $83.98$73.63Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the... -
Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 by Jessica Winston
RRP: $61.93$57.02Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: $63.00$49.75It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... -
Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities by Barbara Fucha 9780521543507
RRP: $81.88$69.85As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the... -
Georgette Heyer Biography by Jennifer Kloester
RRP: $27.28$19.09_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.A remarkable biography of one of Britain's best-loved and best-selling novelists, 'the queen of... -
An Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression Mercedes Aguirre 9781912128112
RRP: $13.65$12.83A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African... -
Swedish Gothic: Dark Forces, Creatures and the Wilderness by Yvonne Leffler 9781839980336
RRP: $44.08$42.29The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation... -
Charles Dickens: A Literary Life by Grahame Smith 9780333557198
$63.71This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production. It thus offers a challenge to traditional accounts which stress the private... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: $23.08$19.68A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career... -
Why Read Four Quartets? by Tom Brous 9781532635687
RRP: $31.50$23.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532635687Author Tom BrousFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan 9781408248348
$57.50The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as... -
Dystopia: A Natural History by Gregory Claeys 9780198820475
RRP: $67.18$50.06Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: $25.18$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492549Author Preti TanejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226005508
RRP: $31.50$27.41The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture... -
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose: Second Edition by T. S. Eliot 9780300119947
$51.72Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land includes as a bonus all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of... -
The English Novel: An Introduction Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9781405117074
RRP: $62.90$55.88Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry... -
Shakespeare: The Basics by Sean McEvoy
RRP: $41.98$37.15Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald 9780521677882
RRP: $50.38$41.98For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances... -
The Burns Supper Companion by Nancy Marshall
RRP: $16.78$11.47In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns' death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celebrate his extraordinary life and to give thanks for his friendship. Over the years the informal theme from... -
An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Simon Taylor 9781912128419
RRP: $13.65$12.83Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting... -
Poems by William Butler Yeats 9781857157116
RRP: $25.20$17.72A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from... -
Jacques Lacan by Sean Homer 9780415256179
RRP: $41.98$37.15Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as... -
Left Out: The forgotten tradition of radical publishing for children in Britain 1910-1949 by Kimberley Reynolds
RRP: $117.60$116.11Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1949 a number of British publishers, writers, and illustrators included children's literature in their efforts to... -
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond
RRP: $46.20$33.01A lavishly-illustrated study of Tolkien's paintings and drawings, set in the context of his writings. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), renowned author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion was an artist in pictures as well as in... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper 9780415311755
RRP: $48.28$42.34Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can... -
Judith Butler by Sara Salih 9780415215190
RRP: $41.98$37.15Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The... -
De Rerum Natura: Bk.1 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780862920760
$67.79This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd Stephen Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: $23.08$16.59The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically... -
Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih by Han Shan
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806984Author Han ShanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: $52.50$35.24'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: $31.48$25.52To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death,...