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Northrop Frye on Shakespeare by Northrop Frye 9780300042085
RRP: $39.88$38.81One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare's most popular plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV,... -
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment by Graham Huggan 9781138784192
RRP: $79.78$70.10This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse... -
Marvel Vault by Peter Sanderson 9781785652875 [USED COPY]
RRP: $62.98$53.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Marvel Vault by Peter Sanderson
$51.79Ten years after its initial successful publication, The MarvelVault is due for an update. New text and images chroniclehow Marvel has channelled its singular storytelling into ablockbuster movie studio, even as it has stayed true to itshallowed roots in... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $18.88$12.77When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition,... -
Thoroughly Mischievous Person PB: The Other Arthur Ransome by Alan Kennedy
$37.46First published in 1930, Swallows and Amazons secured Arthur Ransome's reputation as one of the most influential children's authors of all time, yet prior to writing fiction he had had a turbulent career as a journalist and war correspondent in... -
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Scott McEathron 9780415255288
RRP: $41.98$37.15This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering:a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poemsan overview of the book's early reception and recent critical... -
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
$18.75Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur have been going on for a long time. The search has revealed many interesting facts and it has also led to sharp disagreements. By the 1980s, the search was more or less abandoned,... -
Ben Jonson: Four Comedies by Ben Jonson 9780582070660
RRP: $130.18$126.00This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226005508
RRP: $31.50$27.41The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture... -
Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present by Tison Pugh
RRP: $75.58$66.55From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide... -
Luminous Presence: Derek Jarman's Life-Writing by Alexandra Parsons 9781526171573
$46.26Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a... -
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: $83.98$75.73The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the... -
This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray by Mark Ford
RRP: $39.88$25.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998279Author Mark FordFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
RRP: $79.78$70.10L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern... -
Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring by Inmaculada Szmolka
$58.61Taking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have changed since the Arab Spring.About the AuthorInmaculada Szmolka is Professor in Comparative Politics and Middle East and... -
George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent by Christine Huguet 9780367882242
RRP: $83.98$73.63Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places... -
One Good Turn: a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski 9780684867304
RRP: $29.40$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm) 190mm *... -
Crow by Boria Sax 9781780238425
RRP: $25.18$17.70This classic Reaktion title, now available in B-format, is a survey of crows, ravens, magpies and their relatives in myth, literature and life. It ranges from the raven sent out by Noah to the corvid deities of the Eskimo, to Taoist legends, Victorian... -
Comic Faith: Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce by Robert M. Polhemus 9780226673219
RRP: $54.60$52.19"Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to... -
Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the Artists' Book by Michael Hampton 9781910010068
$25.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010068Author Michael HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children's Literature before 1900 by Katharine Capshaw
$48.07Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's... -
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature by Kate Harper
RRP: $83.98$73.63Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and... -
Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage by Clyde Kenneth Hyder
RRP: $92.38$80.72The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on... -
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
RRP: $48.30$46.47The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures... -
Diablo: Book of Cain by Blizzard Entertainment 9781803368313
RRP: $58.78$38.33Delve deeper into the dark fantasy world of the Diablo universe as Deckard Cain shares history and lore in this fictional illustrated journal. In Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo (R) and Diablo II, the recurring character of Deckard Cain delivered... -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers 9780415268547
RRP: $54.58$47.52Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has been variously defined as 'magic', 'magical' or... -
Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World by Michael Holquist 9780415280082
RRP: $54.58$47.52Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter... -
The Emigrants by Mr George Lamming
$40.15The Emigrants is an elaborately conceived novel, dense with dynamic characters and evocative details. First published in 1954, it focuses initially on the emigrant journey, then on the settling-in process. The journey by sea and subsequent attempts at... -
Biography: Writing Lives by Catherine Neal Parke
RRP: $79.78$70.10Catherine Parke explores biography through detailed examinations of Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and other masters of the genre.About the AuthorCatherine N. Parke teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of... -
Tolstoy in Context by Anna A. Berman
$168.90Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
$33.37Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
My My Life With John Steinbeck: The story of John Steinbeck's forgotten wife by Gwyn Steinbeck 9781999675202
RRP: $25.18$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675202Author Gwyn SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lawson Publishing LimitedPublisher Lawson Publishing Limited -
Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal by Cary Wolfe 9780816641062
RRP: $46.18$41.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816641062Author Cary WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Feminist Literary Criticism by Mary Eagleton 9780582050150
RRP: $104.98$101.30Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of... -
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle by Sally Ledger
$37.42Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional... -
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
RRP: $41.98$37.15Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work,... -
Traveling Through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts by Elka Weber 9780367864163
RRP: $83.98$73.63Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the... -
English Literature for the IB Diploma by Carolyn P. Henly
$108.05Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Literature course. - Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with in-depth... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780231176293
$36.46First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual...