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The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Material Texts in Early Modern England by Adam Smyth
RRP: £30.99£19.04What was a book in early modern England? By combining book history, bibliography and literary criticism, Material Texts in Early Modern England explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books were stranger, richer things than scholars have imagined... -
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism by Jill Kraye
RRP: £26.99£22.80From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: £25.00£21.19Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
Charlotte Bronte Revisited: A view from the 21st century Sophie Franklin 9781912235247
RRP: £9.99£6.80Everybody knows Charlotte Bronte. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she's a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte? As the famous siblings... -
Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature Hugh J. Silverman 9781138685789
RRP: £36.99£32.53This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either... -
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West M.B. Parkes 9780859677424
RRP: £130.00£113.11From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly... -
Principles of Literary Criticism I.A. Richards 9781138123748
RRP: £23.99£20.99Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: £28.00£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: £18.99£16.72The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has eveolved as a publisher concerned with the typically Irish... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£3.51Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Flash in the Pan by David Blum 9781439193778
RRP: £14.99£14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439193778Author David BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.46The 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... -
Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 Rachel Adcock 9781472457066
RRP: £135.00£117.68Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women... -
Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro by Melissa McCarthy 9781952386657
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386657Author Melissa McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams)... -
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing by Lara Farina 9780312295004
RRP: £44.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065588
RRP: £25.00£24.34The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form... -
Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick by Gabriel McKee 9780761826736
RRP: £47.00£41.20From his earliest stories, Philip K. Dick's science fiction had strong religious and philosophical themes. In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at... -
The Psychology of Art by L. S. Vygotskii 9780262720052
£35.64Vygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the sociohistorical theory of the nature of man's consciousness. This work, written more than forty years ago and now translated into English for the first time, approaches the... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £22.50£18.95An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
James Herbert - The Authorised True Story by Craig Cabell 9781782196709
£10.95For 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... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
R. S. Thomas Tony Brown 9780708321935
RRP: £7.99£6.16At his death in 2000, R.S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. With Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas is probably Wales' best-known poet... -
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer 9783030851163
RRP: £22.99£16.61The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History... -
Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: £30.00£23.29The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.The linking of psychosomatic to... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George 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. ... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: £30.00£23.29Fascinating 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... -
Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780199688708
£34.90Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
£15.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case... -
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader by James Shea 9781032272658
RRP: £35.99£31.69An ideal introduction and overview of this popular form Situates Haiku within the broader frame of global/comparative literature for courses in literary studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and creative writing This is the only... -
Milton: The Complete Shorter Poems by John Carey 9781405832793
£37.08This masterly edition contains all of Milton's English poems, with the exception of Paradise Lost, together with translations and texts of all his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. First published in 1968 - and substantially updated in 1996 - John Carey's... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: £48.99£37.56Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present by Daniel Fischlin 9780415198943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £39.99£2.54Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the... -
Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present by Daniel Fischlin
RRP: £39.99£35.46Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the... -
An Analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population Nick Broten 9781912127788
RRP: £6.50£6.11Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the... -
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: £23.95£20.97Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary... -
The Arthurian Handbook: Second Edition Norris J. Lacy 9780815320814
RRP: £43.99£38.84Everything 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... -
Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell Stephan Anstey 9780931507175
RRP: £20.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931507175Author Paul MarionFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Loom PressPublisher Loom PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: £17.99£12.30In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be... -
I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century by Michel Foucault
RRP: £23.99£20.84To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old...