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Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Anat Pick 9780231147873
RRP: $58.80$44.86Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception... -
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies by Lisa Zunshine
RRP: $69.30$67.31Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and... -
The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man by Max Luthi
RRP: $31.48$27.53In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Luthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Luthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; they... -
Coleridge on Shakespeare: The text of the lectures of 1811-12 by R. A. Foakes
RRP: $92.38$80.72First 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... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: $79.78$70.10Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks 9780571170357
RRP: $23.08$15.37Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out to discover.About the AuthorChristopher Ricks is... -
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot 9780415426626
RRP: $41.98$37.15The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible... -
The Outlandish Companion Volume 1 by Diana Gabaldon 9781780894935
$41.45Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. In this beautifully illustrated compendium, Diana Gabaldon opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within... -
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism by Octavio Paz
RRP: $33.58$24.38A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.About the AuthorThe celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age,... -
The Outlandish Companion Volume 2 by Diana Gabaldon
RRP: $73.50$53.11Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. Now Gabaldon serves up The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two, an all-new guide to Books 5-8 in the series: A Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: $20.98$14.93'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
$18.71Until 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... -
Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran
RRP: $48.28$42.34Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university.Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized... -
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon 9780415280167
RRP: $75.58$66.55This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to... -
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers by Desiree Henderson
RRP: $54.58$47.52How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions... -
The Connell Short Guide To The Poetry of Christina Rossetti by Anne Barton 9781911187615
RRP: $12.58$9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187615Author Anne BartonFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma by Lindsay Sarah Tandy
$109.31Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Language and Literature course.- Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with... -
The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison by Jenni Calder
RRP: $20.98$14.93Naomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the nineteenth century and grew into an era of change, political, social and sexual. All of these she embraced and influenced in the course of her long life. She became a major novelist of the 20th century with... -
The Monster Theory Reader by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
RRP: $62.98$56.68A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons,... -
The 100 Best Books Children's Books by Brian Alderson 9781903385982
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385982Author Brian AldersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212g -
The Invisible Spy: by Eliza Haywood by Carol Stewart 9781138235557
RRP: $83.98$74.47Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her 'scandalous' early career, this critical edition of The Invisible Spy (1755) adds to the canon of her later, more... -
Beowulf: Revised Edition by Michael Swanton 9780719051463
RRP: $23.08$19.93New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources.. Prose... -
The Road to Serfdom by David Linden
RRP: $13.65$12.83Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics - which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the... -
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
RRP: $63.00$41.58In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $31.48$23.00In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker
RRP: $31.48$20.58The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the... -
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children by Eleanor Fitzsimons
RRP: $42.00$29.17A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $84.00$58.13In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: $27.28$7.37Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive company of critics, disuss the novels, stories and... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: $58.80$49.60"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: $27.28$18.06When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
$26.54Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226309583
RRP: $42.00$40.74The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this... -
Victor Hugo by Bradley Stephens 9781789140842
RRP: $27.28$19.09Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the... -
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman 9780747529460
RRP: $35.68$25.79Thomas Mann, author of "Death in Venice", "The Magic Mountain", and "Buddenbrooks" was a man with secrets. This biography offers a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, drawing on Mann's unexpurgated diaries. It uncovers a brilliant... -
Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $63.00$47.92The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.The linking of psychosomatic to... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
$35.97The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $68.25$61.22An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $42.00$33.47A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a...