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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... -
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... -
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... -
Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James by S. T. Joshi 9780977173488
RRP: $52.50$47.54Apologies 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
$65.67The 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
$47.23History, 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,... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens 9780415538077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$19.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
RRP: $41.98$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... -
Prophecies of the Brahan Seer by Alexander Mackenzie 9781852171360
RRP: $16.78$9.53Apologies 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: $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... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
$44.69Collection 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: $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... -
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... -
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,... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
$48.91Fascinating 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... -
The Pilgrim's Progress: An Illustrated Christian Classic by John Bunyan 9781400216512
RRP: $31.48$23.84The 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... -
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1) by Aleksandr Pushkin
$36.46When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
$45.78For 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... -
Gothic Kinship by Agnes Andeweg
RRP: $41.98$36.98Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin
$63.34What 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... -
Expiation by Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781910263235
RRP: $33.60$32.00Apologies 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)... -
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion by Rosemary Jackson
RRP: $79.78$70.10This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural... -
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft 9780415661911
RRP: $69.28$61.24This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity... -
Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing by Anand Pandian
$43.76Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres... -
Shakespeare s Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume gives Asia's Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative ways of thinking about Asia, Shakespeare, and Asian Shakespeare based on Asian experiences and histories. Challenging and... -
Walks in the Footsteps of Daphne du Maurier by Sue Kittow 9781910758380
RRP: $18.88$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758380Author Sue KittowFormat PaperbackImprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma Press -
On Liberty by Ashleigh Campi
RRP: $13.65$12.83In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest route to collective happiness, he argues passionately... -
The Helene Cixous Reader by Susan Sellers
RRP: $79.78$70.10This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts... -
From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail by C. Scott Littleton
RRP: $79.78$70.10This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes... -
Henry James: A Very Short Introduction by Susan L. Mizruchi
RRP: $18.88$13.55An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique... -
Dracula by John Paul Riquelme
$31.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781457619328Author John Paul RiquelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature by Sean Keilen 9781032096988
$94.46In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare's relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare's specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism's likeness...