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Annotation by Remi H Kalir
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539920Author Remi Hi. KalirFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: $23.08$22.62Apologies 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 -
Space and Place in Children s Literature, 1789 to the Present by Maria Sachiko Cecire
RRP: $83.98$73.63Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The... -
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children by Eleanor Fitzsimons 9780715652022
RRP: $27.28$18.12A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S... -
The Humanities and Public Life by Peter Brooks
RRP: $35.68$29.90This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities... -
The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal by Professor Josiah Blackmore
RRP: $58.80$48.87An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active,... -
The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $199.50$191.27The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann... -
On Buildings by Procopius
RRP: $52.40$49.12Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 ... -
The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones 9781805260066
RRP: $42.00$37.46A new look at a revolutionary writer, a diverse imperial city, and a controversial trick on the Royal Navy. In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and... -
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 by John Richetti
RRP: $79.78$70.10The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the... -
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
RRP: $79.78$70.10What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns... -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
RRP: $39.88$37.61This 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... -
The Art of Fact: a Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
RRP: $44.08$30.24Apologies 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 *... -
The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame 9780199358854
RRP: $55.63$41.81The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full... -
The Psychology of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Examination Of The Boy Who Lived by Neil Mulholland
RRP: $27.28$25.47Harry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of readers, but an examination of Harry, his friends and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the Muggle (and wizard!) mind. The twists and turns of... -
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $46.18$36.83What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J... -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9781931859288
RRP: $31.48$20.75In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses personal and political topics he... -
The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890 by Robin Gilmour 9780582493476 [USED COPY]
RRP: $100.78$5.04This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated... -
The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890 by Robin Gilmour
RRP: $100.78$97.40This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated... -
The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $23.08$15.37This 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... -
Hontology: Depressive anthropology and the shame of life by Mark Payne 9781785357312
RRP: $16.78$14.74Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx has had an enormous influence on recent thought about the fate of human capabilities in late capitalism, especially in Europe. Hontology explores a road not taken in Specters of Marx - the idea that shame is the route... -
R. S. Thomas by Tony Brown 9780708321935
RRP: $16.78$12.94At 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... -
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda 9780312421748
RRP: $37.80$23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421748Author Zakes MdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415910019
RRP: $79.78$72.87Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies... -
Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good by Joshua Hren 9781532650383
RRP: $81.90$61.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532650383Author Joshua HrenFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)... -
Gothic and Gender: An Introduction by Donna Heiland
RRP: $79.70$71.82Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic... -
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gerard Genette
RRP: $113.40$92.00By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gerard... -
Course in General Linguistics by Laura E.B. Key
RRP: $13.65$12.83Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics is one of the most influential texts of the 20th-century - an astonishing feat for what is, at heart, a series of deeply technical lectures about the structure of human languages. What the Course's... -
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction by John Sutherland 9781785783012 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$5.57'Wonderful...concise, witty, effortlessly learned.' Sunday Times How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? Whose side is Hawkeye on? And how does Clarissa Dalloway get home so quickly? In... -
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein 9780929587189
RRP: $31.48$24.21"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did-indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily synonymous... -
The Location of Culture by Stephen Fay
RRP: $13.65$12.83Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters... -
Principles of Literary Criticism by I. A. Richards
RRP: $50.38$44.08Ivor 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... -
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama by Simon Barker 9780415187343
RRP: $83.98$75.73This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward... -
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories by Vernon Lee 9780198837541
RRP: $16.78$13.42I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of... -
Charlotte Bronte Revisited: A view from the 21st century by Sophie Franklin 9781912235247
RRP: $20.98$14.28Everybody 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... -
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World by Patricia Akhimie 9780367593438
RRP: $88.18$77.18Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to... -
Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature by Hugh J. Silverman
RRP: $77.68$68.31This 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... -
Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature by Joseph Carroll
RRP: $79.78$70.10In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to... -
Ghosts: Death'S Double And The Phenomena Of Theatre by Alice Rayner
RRP: $50.38$40.30Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial... -
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry by Jack Zipes
RRP: $75.58$66.55First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes's latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes's ongoing concern with the fairy tale- its impact on children...