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On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia by C. G. Jung 9780691162478
$63.86In 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
$54.52An 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: $92.38$80.72Contemporary 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... -
Poems by Emily Bronte 9781857157284
RRP: $25.20$17.72* 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
RRP: $41.98$34.94Apologies 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
$27.26Apologies 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 -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: $31.48$23.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith 9780748647415
$38.60This 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
$69.38World 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: $62.90$49.69A 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: $23.08$17.26Apologies 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 Poetry of Sorley MacLean by Emma Dymock
RRP: $14.60$11.40Apologies 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... -
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: $27.26$27.09Apologies 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)... -
Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction by Damien Broderick 9780415097895
RRP: $79.78$72.87Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded... -
Literary Translation by Chantal Wright
RRP: $79.78$70.10Routledge 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: $86.08$79.21What 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
$44.96When 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: $104.98$7.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Romanticism by Cynthia Chase 9780582047990
RRP: $104.98$100.46The 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... -
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
RRP: $37.80$36.94This 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
$38.30A 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: $48.30$37.55Apologies 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
$92.38Apologies 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: $37.78$24.84Apologies 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 *... -
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... -
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780312421724
RRP: $33.60$20.48Apologies 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... -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
$36.83In 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... -
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... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
RRP: $31.50$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... -
Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
$43.34"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... -
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 -
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise by Shoshana Felman
$66.44"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... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell 9780719074103
$74.40Neil 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
$11.76This 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... -
In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy 9780814751008
$51.53In 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...