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Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders
RRP: £23.99£20.99From 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: £18.99£14.01'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... -
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max 9781847084958
RRP: £9.99£6.70David 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... -
ISA Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver by Lisa Lee 9780226409979
RRP: £35.00£34.31The 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: £14.99£10.20A 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
£10.85Art 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... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Martin Fuller
RRP: £6.50£6.11Despite 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: £8.99£6.45The 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: £20.00£14.69This 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: £12.99£9.26This 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: £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... -
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide by J. R. Ward
RRP: £10.99£7.92Prepare 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: £11.99£7.93TWICE 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: £35.99£31.69Apologies 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: £34.99£31.85In 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... -
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfers Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
RRP: £15.95£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421770Author Allan WeisbeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£3.51Who 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: £14.99£9.89Apologies 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: £26.00£25.25In 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... -
Trauma by Lucy Bond 9780415540421
RRP: £19.99£17.69Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late... -
Poems Of Friendship by Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: £12.00£8.44There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods... -
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226447889
RRP: £23.00£22.13N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible... -
Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations by Luisa Moncada
£4.08"Reading on Location" is a country-by-country guide to the regions and cities made famous by both well-known and cult books. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's "Persuasion" to the South India of Arundhati Roy's "The... -
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible by Imtiaz Habib
RRP: £32.99£29.56Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
£23.19An 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... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
£9.98`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We... -
Peeing is Relieving: 200 original maxims by the world's leading aphorist by Robert Eddison
RRP: £12.99£9.09Feeling down in the mouth? Then brighten your day with Peeing is Relieving! It's packed with pithy one-liners, like: Fame is when reporters beg to interview your cat and: The British Empire ceased when butlers stopped ironing the morning paper. As the... -
The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects: By The Former Head Of Project Blue Book by Edward J Ruppelt 9781440462375
RRP: £11.58£10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440462375Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Scott Hamilton
RRP: £30.00£25.27Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved... -
Narrative by Paul Cobley 9780415834445
RRP: £19.99£17.69Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a... -
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory by Nikki Sullivan
RRP: £31.00£25.65This new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
£26.95Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £62.00£49.22This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
Genre by John Frow
RRP: £23.99£20.99This second edition of John Frow's Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in... -
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson
RRP: £19.00£18.50Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character... -
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A. M. Homes 9781847080110
RRP: £10.99£7.32On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Thomas Docherty 9780745012438
£51.96This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.About the AuthorThomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.Book InformationISBN... -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484
RRP: £12.99£9.33Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives by Maria C. Scott
RRP: £47.99£41.81Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth...