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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
RRP: £16.99£9.58'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
RRP: £25.95£20.64"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... -
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris
RRP: £8.99£6.70James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and... -
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise by Shoshana Felman
RRP: £35.00£31.64"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
RRP: £19.99£14.87Neil 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... -
In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy 9780814751008
RRP: £27.99£22.07In 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 Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: £43.99£38.84Everything 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... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: £19.99£17.69Modernist 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... -
Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan 9780198183846
£31.16Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how... -
Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Albert 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... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 by Merritt Moseley
RRP: £36.99£32.53In 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: £19.99£17.69On 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: £6.50£6.11Clifford 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... -
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions by Stephen Frosh 9781137031273
RRP: £23.00£20.67This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure... -
Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £25.99£22.63Why 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
£8.00Though 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... -
Romanticism by David Stevens 9780521753722
RRP: £8.75£8.02Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Romanticism offers guidance through the diversity of uses and meanings of the word 'romantic', not in terms of fixed definitions or essential qualifying characteristics, but rather in... -
Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James by S. T. Joshi 9780977173488
RRP: £25.00£21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977173488Author S. T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 457gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
£31.27The 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... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
A Dictionary of Narratology by Gerald Prince
RRP: £25.99£20.84History, 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,... -
The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Proust
RRP: £16.99£11.27'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... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
RRP: £19.99£17.69This 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... -
Prophecies of the Brahan Seer by Alexander Mackenzie 9781852171360
RRP: £7.99£4.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171360Author Alexander MackenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press by Anne Humpherys 9780367887964
RRP: £39.99£35.06G.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... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: £25.00£21.28Collection 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 -
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo by Padraig Belton 9781912284634
RRP: £6.50£6.11Mary 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... -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.39Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484
RRP: £12.99£9.33Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin
RRP: £17.99£8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470232Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books... -
Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £24.00£23.03"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,... -
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen 9780007517442
RRP: £10.99£8.29A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin 9780241239971
RRP: £20.00£13.77A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: £30.00£23.29Fascinating 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... -
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition: The Sanguine Boundary Limit by Donal Manning 9781782055877
£62.35This 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... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: £28.00£21.80For 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... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £15.00£13.05Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin
£30.16What 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... -
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers
RRP: £33.99£29.66Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never... -
Expiation by Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781910263235
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263235Author Elizabeth Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams)...