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New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror by Eddie Falvey
RRP: $63.00$53.07The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the... -
Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: $54.58$47.52What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part... -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
RRP: $41.98$36.06In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of "minor literature"-the use of a major language... -
Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $54.50$42.46"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's... -
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood by Adriana Cavarero 9780415200585
RRP: $83.98$73.63Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and... -
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel 9781408877555
RRP: $23.08$14.95'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley 'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have... -
Harry Alan Towers: The Transnational Career of a Cinematic Contrarian by Dave Mann 9780786479825
RRP: $60.88$50.51Harry Alan Towers' reputation rests upon a corpus of 95 low budget productions shot post-haste in every corner of the globe. He took an integral part, however, in the development of the protocols that now underpin much transnational film production; he... -
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs
RRP: $33.58$22.95The first Sherlock Holmes adventure appeared in 1888, but today the detective is more popular than ever-witness the upcoming release of "Sherlock Holmes", starring Robert Downey Jr. as the legendary Victorian sleuth and Jude Law as his faithful... -
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $73.50$65.21"It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
$27.41"A year in Paris"...Countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. "Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary... -
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
RRP: $35.68$20.12'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the... -
On The Conjugial Angel: 2020 by A S Byatt
RRP: $18.80$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482191Author A S ByattFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 11mm -
In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy 9780814751008
$63.00In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell 9780719074103
$73.04Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary... -
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" by Kate Maurer 9780764586736
$11.74This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and "tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for... -
The Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: $92.38$81.56Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the... -
Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
RRP: $35.68$25.79Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless power and appeal and are studied all over the world, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influence... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: $41.98$37.15Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 by Merritt Moseley
RRP: $77.68$68.31In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers by Ruth Jackson
RRP: $41.98$37.15On Religion is a major text for the development of modern religious thought in the West and its author, German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, is remembered as the Father of Modern Protestant Theology, as well as for his contributions to philosophy,... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Abena Dadze-Arthur
RRP: $13.65$12.83Clifford Geertz has been called 'the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation... -
Cinema and Modernism by David Trotter
RRP: $41.48$36.75This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: $20.98$14.93'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929 by Valerie Eliot
RRP: $84.00$58.13Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation. Following the withdrawal of... -
The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Proust
RRP: $35.68$23.67'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: $52.50$43.81Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: $54.58$47.52Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on... -
Medea by Euripides
$16.80Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
RRP: $62.90$50.67The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and... -
A Dictionary of Narratology by Gerald Prince
RRP: $54.58$46.28History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns,... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: $63.00$47.92Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
$24.13 - $37.15This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism... -
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press by Anne Humpherys 9780367887964
RRP: $83.98$73.63G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in... -
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo by Padraig Belton 9781912284634
RRP: $13.65$12.83Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $58.80$44.86For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political... -
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition: The Sanguine Boundary Limit by Donal Manning 9781782055877
RRP: $94.50$77.18This book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has received relatively little attention in Joyce studies. Joyce portrays Ulster as sharing a complex relationship with the... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin
$62.14What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of a character was to collect every example of a kind, in... -
Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $50.40$48.36"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More,... -
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
RRP: $95.53$95.36This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by... -
The Pilgrim's Progress: An Illustrated Christian Classic by John Bunyan 9781400216512
RRP: $31.48$31.14The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers across the centuries to persevere in their faith. For longstanding fans of Bunyan's tale, or for those encountering it for the first time, this illustrated edition offers new beauty and insight with striking...