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Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": A Reader's Guide by Janet Winston 9780826495839
£24.11This is a concise and authoritative guide to Virginia Woolf's classic text "To the Lighthouse" (1927), including a brief plot summary and introduction to characters and a guide to critical reception. "To the Lighthouse" is one of Virginia Woolf's most... -
Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry
£17.06Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying... -
Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World by Michael Holquist 9780415280082
RRP: £25.99£22.63Holquist'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... -
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson 9781442277946
RRP: £35.00£32.49Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful... -
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood by Adriana Cavarero 9780415200585
RRP: £41.99£36.75Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and... -
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London 9780142437735
RRP: £13.53£10.62Apologies 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)... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
RRP: £53.00£46.34In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Vasko Popa: Poems Vasko Popa 9781681373362
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373362Author Vasko PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
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... -
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation by Professor John Guillory 9780226830599
RRP: £24.00£23.43An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the... -
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1 by Raymond Victor Schoder 9781585101757
RRP: £40.99£37.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101757Author Leslie Collins EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Posthuman Glossary by Rosi Braidotti
£45.87If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the... -
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris 9780415280105
RRP: £29.99£26.64Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The... -
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction by Zoe Bossiere
RRP: £16.95£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941628232Author Zoe BossiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: £8.99£6.20Across 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... -
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
RRP: £23.00£22.13The 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... -
Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide by Michael Dobson
RRP: £16.99£12.28Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing... -
Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation by Melissa Sihra 9780230006478
RRP: £44.99£44.97Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the... -
Yoruba Proverbs by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: £32.00£28.61Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Nick Broten
£6.51Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also... -
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation by Roger Housden 9781400047994
RRP: £21.00£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400047994Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g -
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... -
Luxurious Sexualities: Textual Practice Volume 11 Issue 3 Jean Howard 9780415161770
RRP: £37.99£33.38Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking. Textual Practice contains articles... -
An Analysis of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Rebecca Pohl 9781912453092
RRP: £6.50£6.11The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert's ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women's... -
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99£24.32An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and... -
Modernism Peter Childs 9781138931626
RRP: £22.99£20.16Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural... -
A Companion to the History of the Book Simon Eliot (University of London, UK) 9781405192781
RRP: £32.95£30.14A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose "As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer." Choice "If you want to... -
Bronte's Wuthering Heights by Ian Brinton
£27.99This is a concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights". After its relatively modest reception in 1847, Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" has become one of the most widely-read novels of the... -
Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes Dominique Battles 9781032439570
RRP: £34.99£30.85Medieval Literature: An Introduction to Type-Scenes is the first book-length exploration of the type-scenes of western medieval literature from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, spanning both the Latinate and Germanic traditions. Type-scenes are the... -
The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £23.99£20.84Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its... -
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... -
The Art of Fact: a Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
RRP: £20.99£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846309Author Kevin KerraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *... -
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies Lisa Zunshine (Bush-Holbrook Professor of English, University of Kentucky) 9780801894886
RRP: £33.00£32.05Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and... -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: £30.00£19.88Dame 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,... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: £16.00£8.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe
RRP: £23.00£22.13Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Cary... -
Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma by Gabriele Schwab 9780231152570
RRP: £28.00£21.80From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab... -
Blake: The Complete Poems W.H. Stevenson 9781405832809
RRP: £39.99£39.54William Blake (1757 - 1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visonary. Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosynratic concerns... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075347Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet...