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`The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manque: I make no other pretensions ...' (Anthony Burgess). Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously...

Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen...

This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957296275Author Rosemary A. PardoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Shadow PublishingPublisher Shadow Publishing

This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at particular films, including The Piano and The English Patient, to...

The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only helped create and sustain a vast world religion, but...

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005248Author Jennifer L. HolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1200g

The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in...

Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt's interpretative...

1. This volume brings together original scholarship on comics that are potentially not receiving the scholarly attention they deserve due to their lack of English translation or that have been studied in scholarship unavailable to an Anglophone audience...

The commedia dell'arte was an improvised drama performed by masked players. How did the actors react to these demands and limitations? What force kept this form of theatre alive for more than two centuries and made Harlequin such a potent image? In this...

It 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027674Author Simone WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 250g

When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature - alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. "Towards Reading Freud" weighs the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975791Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Graywolf...

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Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a...

For the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, and current editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers,...

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal...

The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside...

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by...

Written in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens's novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515433552Author Fr D Ric ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. A team of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091663Author Paul TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 625gDimensions(mm)...

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Literature of Love is designed to introduce students to one of the central themes in literature. Focusing first on different types and aspects of love - physical, emotional, spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939568267Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Black OceanPublisher Black OceanWeight(grams) 158g

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger...

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437735Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,...

An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding...

Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005417Author Louise CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Dallas Institute PublicationsPublisher Dallas Institute PublicationsWeight(grams)...

History, 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908476906Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams)...

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820312712Author Perry NodelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 525g

For almost 40 years, Herbert was Britain's most popular horror author. With sales f over 50 million copies, he carved a niche in quality bestselling fiction all of his own. Famous for his Rats trilogy and The Fog, he broke away from the cut-and-thrust...