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Talking Heads - Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
£7.67Fear 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... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: £16.00£15.77A 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... -
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek 9780141182087
RRP: £14.00£9.67A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922-garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient... -
Tintin And The Secret Of Literature by Tom McCarthy
RRP: £8.99£6.63Herge'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... -
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
£21.06For 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... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
RRP: £17.99£12.14Full 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: £5.99£4.46Apologies 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 -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
£18.82Writer, 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... -
Dialogues with / and Great Books: The Dynamics of Canon Formation by David Fishelov 9781845195182
RRP: £27.50£24.55What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its... -
Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848
RRP: £58.00£54.13The 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: £30.00£25.27Apologies 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: £39.99£35.06This, 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: £9.99£8.17In 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 9780415375467 [USED COPY]
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Understanding Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
RRP: £37.99£33.38Edited 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: £25.00£16.78With 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: £130.00£113.11From 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... -
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 9780062442185
RRP: £14.99£10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442185Author Helene HanffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Rebecca Warren 9780582414716
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Rebecca Warren 9780582414716 [USED COPY]
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Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £4.00£3.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning by Sarah Dillon
RRP: £36.99£32.53Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other... -
Sweetly Sings Delaney: A Study of Shelagh Delaney's Work 1958-68 by John Harding 9781906075835
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the College de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) by Roland Barthes
£23.69Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a... -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: £15.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse 9780198828129
RRP: £14.99£10.95From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal... -
Sebastian Faulks's "Birdsong" by Pat Wheeler 9780826453235
RRP: £21.99£20.59This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of... -
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
£19.19In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £12.99£9.09J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens... -
Intertextuality by Graham Allen
RRP: £19.99£17.69This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at... -
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams 9780393006094
RRP: £27.00£21.24In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in... -
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction by Janice Allan 9781032570525
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well... -
Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets by Harry Blamires 9781138998445
RRP: £32.99£29.16Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper 9780415311755
RRP: £22.99£20.16Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Human Side of Enterprise by Stoyan Stoyanov
RRP: £6.50£6.11What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good manager, what precisely makes them so good at their job is a complex question - and one central to good business organization. Management scholar Douglas... -
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum 9780415087971 [USED COPY]
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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum
RRP: £19.99£17.69Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from... -
Islwyn Ffowc Elis by T. Robin Chapman 9780708316559
RRP: £4.99£4.04The first full examination in English of the career and works of the most popular Welsh author of the twentieth century. Elis laid solid foundations for the contemporary novel in Welsh on which other writers were able to build in the 1960s and 1970s. In... -
The Bauman Reader by Peter Beilharz 9780631214922
RRP: £44.95£40.11The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a...