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Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell 9781394187935
RRP: £18.99£12.91Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to... -
Creativity: Theory, History, Practice by Rob Pope
RRP: £37.99£33.38Creativity: Theory, History, Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory and cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries and builds new... -
Critical Theory: The Key Concepts by Dino Franco Felluga
RRP: £29.99£26.64Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of... -
Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Keymer 9780198725954
RRP: £8.99£6.45Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.29This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical introduction to "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968): Gilles Deleuze's most important work... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £22.50£18.95An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
Love Songs: The Hidden History by Ted Gioia 9780199357574
RRP: £24.49£19.99The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions... -
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
RRP: £24.99£21.67In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and... -
Somerset: South and West by Julian Orbach
RRP: £60.00£50.11This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape is enriched by buildings of outstanding... -
The Connell Short Guide To Cormac McCarthy's The Road by David Isaacs
RRP: £5.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776991Author David IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah by Prof Francis Landy 9780198856696
RRP: £120.00£108.33The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy's book tells... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
RRP: £32.95£20.82From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century... -
The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: £12.00£8.07A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as... -
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror by Olivia Luna Eldritch
RRP: £16.99£12.28Immerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the... -
Edward Said by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: £25.99£22.63Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political... -
Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot by Karen Chase
RRP: £47.99£41.81How 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: £13.99£9.20Apologies 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: £18.00£13.81Apologies 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... -
Enid Blyton: A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
RRP: £22.99£16.18This 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: £19.99£17.69Is 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... -
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish 9780674467262
RRP: £29.95£23.66Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes... -
The Language of Languages by Ngugi Wa Thiong′o 9781803090719
RRP: £13.99£12.25With 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... -
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Scott R. Harris 9781452241340
£30.36This 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... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
£18.02During 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 Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities by Jeffrey Cohen
RRP: £26.99£22.80This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to... -
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
RRP: £39.99£35.06'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: £36.49£23.80Richard 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... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
£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... -
A writer's diary: Being extracts fromt he diary by Virginia Woolf 9781903155882
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies 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 -
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature by Lois Tyson
RRP: £35.99£32.09Explaining 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: £11.99£8.29"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... -
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £14.99£12.55Why 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: £43.99£38.44Wilson 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: £19.99£14.52Is 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: £39.99£35.06Examining 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... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.44The 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: £28.99£25.09In 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... -
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
£21.41In 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... -
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... -
Mixed Bag: Jokes, Riddles, Puzzles & Memorabilia by Raymond Smullyan Smullyan
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies 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