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Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot by Karen Chase
RRP: $100.78$87.80How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors - Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker
RRP: $29.38$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351641Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm -
The Transplants by Giuseppe Prezzolini 9781599541372
RRP: $37.80$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541372Author Giuseppe PrezzoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation by William T. Stafford 9780472873005
RRP: $35.60$29.57Writing the Australian Crawl presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing-a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with... -
Enid Blyton: A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
RRP: $37.78$32.82This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of... -
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $41.98$37.15Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $46.10$37.07During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial... -
The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work by Louise M. Rosenblatt
RRP: $60.80$49.06Louise M. Rosenblatt's award-winning work continues increasingly to be read in a wide range of academic fields literary criticism, reading theory, aesthetics, composition, rhetoric, speech communication, and education. Her view of the reading transaction... -
The Language of Languages by Ngugi Wa Thiong′o 9781803090719
RRP: $29.38$25.73With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been at the... -
A writer's diary: Being extracts fromt he diary by Virginia Woolf 9781903155882
RRP: $33.60$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155882Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Scott R. Harris 9781452241340
RRP: $71.38$63.19This brief, introductory book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing... -
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
RRP: $83.98$73.63'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets... -
The History of Music Production by Richard James Burgess 9780199357178
RRP: $71.38$49.98Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, a musician, and an author in this history of recorded music, which focuses on the development of music production as both art form and profession. This comprehensive narrative begins in 1860... -
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature by Lois Tyson
RRP: $75.58$67.39Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on... -
Forgotten Manuscript by Sergio Chejfec 9781913867713
RRP: $25.18$17.41"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and... -
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
RRP: $56.60$44.04In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from... -
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $31.48$30.11Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues... -
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: $92.38$80.72Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ... -
Literature in Contexts by Peter Barry
RRP: $41.98$30.49Is it possible to return the literary text in all its particularity to the centre of literary study, without going back to the 'words-on-the page' myopia of the past? That is the primary question which Literature in contexts engages with. In the 1980s... -
Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry by Dr. Fabienne Moine
RRP: $83.98$73.63Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges... -
Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students by A. J. Arberry 9780521092579
RRP: $35.68$29.19Originally published in 1965, this is an introductory book for university students of Arabic literature. It begins with a substantial introduction in English by Professor Arberry on the development, nature, forms and rhythms of Arabic poetry. The main... -
Talking Heads - Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
RRP: $20.98$15.65Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: $25.20$17.72The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
The Routledge Companion to Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: $60.88$52.69In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge... -
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery 9780192856234
RRP: $46.18$39.38An 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... -
Mixed Bag: Jokes, Riddles, Puzzles & Memorabilia by Raymond Smullyan Smullyan
RRP: $29.38$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986144578Author Raymond Smullyan SmullyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Sagging ShortsPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 234g -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: $33.60$33.12A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of... -
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: $56.70$43.32For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: $41.98$38.72Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St... -
Tintin And The Secret Of Literature by Tom McCarthy
RRP: $18.88$13.92Herge's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77'. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
RRP: $37.78$25.49Full of Forster's renowned wit and perceptiveness, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL offers a rare insight into the art of fiction from one of our greatest novelists.'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential... -
The Connell Short Guide To John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men by Stephen Fender 9781911187066
RRP: $12.58$9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187066Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
ALEXANDREIS by Walter Chatillon 9781551116761
RRP: $65.00$53.78Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century "best-seller:" scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his... -
Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848
RRP: $121.80$113.67The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of... -
New Queer Horror Film and Television by Darren Elliott-Smith
RRP: $63.00$53.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786836267Author Darren Elliott-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Arthur Morrison and the East End: The Legacy of Slum Fictions by Eliza Cubitt
RRP: $83.98$73.63This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison's works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A... -
King Richard ll by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98$19.64In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in... -
Understanding Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
RRP: $79.78$70.10Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from... -
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter by John Miller 9780712354561
RRP: $52.50$35.24With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. Trees can evoke powerful feelings. For Henry David Thoreau, the woods are places beyond civilisation; for Ursula Le Guin and J. R. R. Tolkien, they are loaded with otherworldly potential; and for those fleeing... -
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M. B. Parkes
RRP: $273.00$237.53From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly...