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Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
RRP: $41.98$40.72From "the man on whom nothing was lost," a unique guide to the elements of statecraft, presented through spirited interpretations of classic literary works "The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm," writes Charles... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $58.70$36.52An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
$50.53After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543 [USED COPY]
RRP: $119.68$5.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543
RRP: $130.18$127.26'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' David LodgeThis anthology uses extracts from the works of the... -
Shakespeare and Queer Representation by Stephen Guy-Bray
RRP: $41.98$37.15In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer.Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as... -
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition by Stanley Cavell
$53.82Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films-as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors-will be of... -
Jacob's Room by Virgina Woolf 9780192857392
RRP: $16.78$12.16'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows... -
Judith Butler by Sara Salih 9780415215190
RRP: $41.98$37.15Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The... -
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $23.08$16.32This is the second volume of Vonnegut's autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark,... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: $18.88$14.43Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is... -
A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life by Ricky Rooksby
RRP: $83.98$73.63Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: $23.08$16.32A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: $41.98$37.15It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street by Mary L. Shannon
RRP: $83.98$73.63A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner,... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: $39.88$26.78George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: $60.88$52.69Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It focusses on both what Plato and Aristotle say about literature and how... -
The Connell Guide To Alan Bennett's The History Boys by Aisha Farr 9781911187998
RRP: $12.58$10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187998Author Aisha FarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman 9780691212692
RRP: $39.88$31.75A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he... -
The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space by Anna Kornbluh 9780226653341
RRP: $50.40$48.36In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to--and substantially shifts--that conversation in The Order... -
Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed. by Steven Jay Rubin 9780786458929
RRP: $60.88$51.35This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually... -
Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-18 by E. J. Clery 9780719040276
$37.42How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: $44.08$39.94Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual... -
The Names of Homeric Heroes: Problems and Interpretations by Nikoletta Kanavou 9783110578201
RRP: $39.90$33.41The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time... -
Writing Facts: Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity by Susanne Knaller 9783837662719
RRP: $94.48$77.15"Fact" is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an... -
Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations by Katherine Erdman
RRP: $13.65$12.83The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the... -
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval 9780816627370
$40.30A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World... -
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
RRP: $113.38$109.12Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by... -
The Cosmic Zoom - Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation by Horton
RRP: $50.40$48.36In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker, travelling deep... -
A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $23.08$15.37While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be... -
Poems by William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: $25.20$17.72Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in... -
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter by Beatrice Groves
RRP: $54.58$47.52Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the... -
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $27.28$24.07An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the... -
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present by Paul Crosthwaite 9780719096259
RRP: $52.50$38.47What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in... -
Theories of Authorship by John Caughie 9780415025522 [USED COPY]
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Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Gillian Sargent
RRP: $14.60$11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841270Author Gillian SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert 9780226828664
RRP: $42.00$35.66A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the... -
Close Reading: The Basics by David Greenham
RRP: $41.98$37.15Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond... -
Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel by Jessica Durgan 9780367663742
RRP: $96.58$84.27As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and... -
Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities by Anne Whitehead
$45.89This book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has.Book InformationISBN 9781474452410Author Anne WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh...