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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum 9780415087971 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£12.24Poetry 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... -
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... -
Balancing Acts: Conversations with Gerald Dawe on a Life in Poetry by Gerald Dawe
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558167Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
RRP: £9.99£3.73A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such... -
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... -
Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form by Paul K. Saint-Amour 9780190200954
RRP: £40.99£29.05Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus... -
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 -
On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia by C. G. Jung 9780691162478
RRP: £38.00£30.41In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent... -
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor
RRP: £28.99£24.32An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and... -
Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous... -
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... -
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
RRP: £14.99£11.54Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country... -
Poems by Emily Bronte 9781857157284
RRP: £12.00£8.44* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindings *... -
AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology: Conflict and Power: The Student Guide by David Wheeler 9780993218316
£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218316Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Follow the Moon and Stars: A Literary Journey through Nottinghamshire by John Baird 9781910170892
RRP: £14.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170892Author John BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays by Lewis Vaughn 9780197751916
RRP: £25.99£24.16Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays is a concise, self-guided manual that covers the basics of argumentative essay writing and encourages students to master fundamental skills quickly, with minimal instructor input. Opening... -
Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith 9780748647415
RRP: £19.99£18.38This is the new edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: £42.00£33.04World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: £29.95£23.66A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.About the AuthorPeter Brooks is... -
The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments by John Matthew Fox 9781737847403
RRP: £10.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737847403Author John Matthew FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint BookfoxPublisher BookfoxWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Project Blue Book - The Complete 1956 Report on UFOs by an Officer of the U.S. Air Force by Edward J Ruppelt 9781789872330
RRP: £12.98£12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Literary Translation by Chantal Wright
RRP: £37.99£33.38Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from... -
Further Reading by Matthew Rubery
RRP: £40.99£37.72What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further... -
Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner 9780674017672
RRP: £26.95£21.41When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a... -
Romanticism by Cynthia Chase 9780582047990 [USED COPY]
RRP: £49.99£3.40The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist... -
Romanticism by Cynthia Chase 9780582047990
RRP: £49.99£47.84The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist... -
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean by Emma Dymock
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841058Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
RRP: £18.00£17.59This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is,... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan 9781787384705
RRP: £20.00£18.24A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: £23.00£17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Illustrated Courtroom by Elizabeth Williams 9781956470420
£43.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Tunnel of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin 9781802270648
RRP: £12.99£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802270648Author Ferne ArfinFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Green River PressPublisher Green River PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: £25.99£22.63What 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... -
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780312421724
RRP: £16.00£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421724Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
The Art of Discworld by Paul Kidby
RRP: £18.99£13.15A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HEROIn THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following... -
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood by Adriana Cavarero 9780415200585
RRP: £41.99£36.75Relating 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... -
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Ransom Riggs
RRP: £15.99£10.93The 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... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
RRP: £15.00£13.05"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... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00£19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd