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Autobibliography by Rob Doyle
RRP: $27.28$17.98Apologies 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 -
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas 9781781258682
RRP: $27.28$19.09Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of... -
Criticism: Ideas in Profile by Catherine Belsey 9781781254509
$11.32 - $15.10Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics,... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: $71.38$63.00What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: $35.68$31.96A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a... -
Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot 9780816619702
RRP: $62.98$55.42In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and... -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: $31.48$23.00Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself... -
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... -
Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam
RRP: $50.38$42.86Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Su Fielder 9780198419556
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,... -
Steppenwolf Tpb by H. Hesse
RRP: $39.88$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278670Author H. HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba
RRP: $60.88$52.69Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates... -
In the Shadow of Shakespeare by Richard Vaughan Davies 9781999315610
RRP: $18.88$17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999315610Author Richard Vaughan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Mitford Oak PressPublisher Mitford Oak PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: $33.58$28.79These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative... -
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England by Elizabeth L. Swann
$63.69Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth... -
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max 9781847084958
RRP: $20.98$14.07David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone worth reading, revering, following. How had a teen tennis... -
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619: A Critical Edition by Katherine O. Acheson 9780367149130
RRP: $69.28$61.24Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first... -
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson 9781844675388
RRP: $41.98$36.33In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since... -
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: $48.28$41.43This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: $41.98$37.15Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep... -
Fictionality by Karen Petroski 9780367752293
RRP: $41.98$37.15Does fiction enhance reality, or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what... -
Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders
RRP: $50.38$44.08From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this... -
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
RRP: $39.88$29.42'No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... -
ISA Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver by Lisa Lee 9780226409979
RRP: $73.50$72.05The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures,... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $31.48$21.42A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are... -
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts by Jerram Barrs
RRP: $29.38$22.24Art is all around us, but few people truly understand it. Barrs helps readers evaluate and define great art through an investigation of the work of Lewis, Tolkien, Rowling, Shakespeare, and Austen."Echoes of Eden is the most accessible, readable, and yet... -
Divine Comedy by Dante 9781435146914
RRP: $27.28$19.93Dante's Divine Comedy is one of the most highly regarded works of world literature and a classic that continues to inspire fiction and poetry today. Written between 1308 and 1321, the three books of this epic poem- 'lnferno', 'Purgatorio' and 'Paradiso'-... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Martin Fuller
RRP: $13.65$12.83Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $42.00$30.85This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of... -
Burning the Days by James Salter
RRP: $27.28$18.94This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases James Salter's uniquely beautiful... -
The Handbook to Literary Research by W. R. Owens 9780415485005
RRP: $79.78$70.10The 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... -
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide by J. R. Ward
RRP: $23.08$16.63Prepare to enter the dark, passionate world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and get up close and personal with each of the Brothers. You'll find insider information on the Brotherhood and interviews with your favourite characters, including a... -
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: $25.18$16.65TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's... -
Shelley: Selected Poems by Jack Donovan 9781405858199
RRP: $75.58$66.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405858199Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 952Imprint LongmanPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach by Jack Zipes
RRP: $73.48$66.89In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
$5.52 - $7.37Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Heart Of Darkness: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by David Burke 9781901447576
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447576Author David BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 301g -
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling by David Bordwell
RRP: $54.60$53.03In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $39.88$31.06An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership-has...