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Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature Jorge Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: £14.99£13.03Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472145017
RRP: £20.00£17.62'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as... -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: £14.99£14.04Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays show him to have been a brilliant exponent of the art of the essayist. Moreover, as the... -
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times by John Darnton 9780805070859
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070859Author John DarntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
The Iliad Homer 9781857150605
RRP: £16.99£12.68One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven... -
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
RRP: £14.99£11.54Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country... -
Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband by Jackie Moore 9780198374817
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.Book InformationISBN... -
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped: A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination by Bo Pettersson 9783110611076
RRP: £23.50£21.60Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it... -
The Scarlet Letter: York Notes Advanced by Julian Cowley 9780582414730 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary... -
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 by Daphne Patai 9780807844144
RRP: £49.95£46.08Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals reintroduces the work of writers and activists whose texts, and often whose very lives, were passionately engaged in the major political issues of their times but who have been displaced from both the historical and the... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: £21.00£17.76Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel by Michael Prince 9780521021432
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
Milton Place by Elisabeth De Waal 9781910263211
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263211Author Elisabeth De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
Autobibliography by Rob Doyle
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750524Author Rob DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Iona: Poems by Kenneth Steven 9781640606302
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
£8.91Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
The Poems of W.B. Yeats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Michael O'Neill 9780415234764
RRP: £19.99£17.69Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter by Angela Topping 9781906075255
RRP: £9.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075255Author Angela ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore
RRP: £18.99£15.65Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. ... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century Adelle Hay 9781912235643
RRP: £9.99£6.80Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Helen Roche 9781912128976
RRP: £6.50£6.11A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence... -
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction Hilary Hamnett (University of Lincoln, UK) 9781839161438
RRP: £24.00£20.12Dangerous, dark and difficult to detect, poisons have been a common character in literature from ancient times to the modern day. Their ability to perform deadly deeds at a distance is a common device for creating dramatic tension and playing on our real... -
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780446691291
RRP: £35.99£27.04In a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time, a leading literary critic and author of The Book of J explores the mysteries of genius as expressed in one hundred of the most creative minds in history, including Socarates, Shakespeare,... -
The Claustrum: An investigation of claustrophobic phenomena by Donald Meltzer 9781912567270
RRP: £27.99£26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567270Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations Ramon Pacheco Pardo 9781912127177
RRP: £6.50£6.11Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau's watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes... -
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies by William Hughes
RRP: £14.99£12.55Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long nineteenth century Includes illustrations derived wholly from... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: £21.99£19.19From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
Robert Browning: Selected Poems John Woolford 9781405841139
RRP: £35.99£35.82Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning's... -
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery 9780192856234
RRP: £23.49£19.97An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: £10.99£9.37A 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... -
Meaning of Contemporary Realism by Georg Lukacs 9780850362503
RRP: £14.95£11.39With a new introduction by Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK An argument for literary realism as opposed to modernism, contrasting Mann and Kafka. The book also argues for socialist as opposed to critical realism in literature.Book... -
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Jokes E. Henry Thripshaw 9781849010559
RRP: £12.99£8.60The ultimate collection of tasteless and sick jokes that just shouldn't be told. More than 3,000 off-colour jokes, covering every taboo from sex and death to race and disability, this book leaves no stone unturned in its search for the most dubious... -
The Handbook to Literary Research by W. R. Owens 9780415485005
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: £19.99£17.69It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach by Marco Caracciolo 9783110552997
RRP: £18.00£15.45Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses,... -
Coleridge on Shakespeare: The text of the lectures of 1811-12 R. A. Foakes 9780415489157
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1971. The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1856). His text of these important lectures given by Coleridge in... -
Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation by Bobi Jones
RRP: £14.95£10.74The Adulterer's Tongue casts a brilliant light on the world of Welsh-language poetry. Poetry has been written in Welsh for over fifteen hundred years: an ancient literature, it is also a vibrant part of the culture of modern Europe, often overlooked by...