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The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryll Glotfelty 9780820317816
£32.21The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology... -
Shakespeare and Queer Representation Stephen Guy-Bray 9781138389618
RRP: £19.99£17.69In 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 Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters by Rich Weidman 9781617136016
RRP: £14.99£14.61EThe Beat Generation FAQE is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II... -
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti 9781844671854
£13.48In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers... -
My Dead Book: A Novel by Nate Lippens 9781739702908
RRP: £15.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781739702908Author Nate LippensFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot... -
Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home Phyllis Weliver 9781138677586
RRP: £33.99£30.00Over the first half of the nineteenth century, writers like Austen and Bronte confined their critiques to satirical portrayals of women musicians. Later, however, a marked shift occurred with the introduction of musical female characters where were... -
The Becoming by Nicole Luongo
RRP: £14.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338134Author Nicole LuongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc... -
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation Norris Lacy 9780415782890
RRP: £54.99£48.72The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian... -
The Spenser Encyclopedia A.C. Hamilton 9780415755610
RRP: £53.99£49.27'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:*... -
Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" by John Fleming 9780826496218
£19.99This is an accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" - a play commonly studied at undergraduate level.Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has... -
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
RRP: £19.99£17.54"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized."-Studies in the Humanities "This work is altogether first rate. It is informative,... -
Lucan by Charles Tesoriero 9780199277230
£77.18This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables... -
Latour and the Passage of Law by Kyle McGee
RRP: £28.99£26.91This exciting new vision for legal theory combines analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.About the... -
The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt 9780674724730
RRP: £33.95£29.01The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by... -
Well-Kept Ruins by Helene Cixous
RRP: £15.99£13.78A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabruck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and... -
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street by Pat Rogers
RRP: £25.00£18.02The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and... -
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader by Donald E. Hall
RRP: £54.99£48.72The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: £20.99£18.37Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular commentators, academic critics, and short story writers... -
Julia Kristeva by Noelle McAfee 9780415250092
RRP: £19.99£17.69One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work,... -
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Understanding The Grapes of Wrath: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson 9780313305757
£55.26When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, it had an explosive effect on the public, calling attention to the problems of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. This casebook provides a rich source of primary materials on the period and... -
Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun 9780140266245
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140266245Author Jorge SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev
RRP: £17.99£15.06Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 9781476753614
RRP: £24.00£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
On Buildings by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late 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 ... -
Understanding Metalepsis: The Hermeneutics of Narrative Transgression by Julian Hanebeck 9783110764611
RRP: £21.00£17.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJulian Hanebeck, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany. Book InformationISBN 9783110764611Author Julian HanebeckFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook by Jenneke A. Oosterhoff
RRP: £44.99£39.28Intermediate Dutch is designed for learners who have achieved a basic proficiency and wish to refine their knowledge of grammatical structures. This Workbook, along with its companion volume Basic Dutch, provides clear and concise summaries of the... -
Literary Translation: A Practical Guide by Clifford E. Landers
RRP: £24.95£17.19In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language... -
Revisiting "The Waste Land" by Lawrence Rainey 9780300123722
£19.17This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally
RRP: £22.99£20.16Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of... -
Studying English Literature and Language: An Introduction and Companion by Rob Pope
RRP: £36.99£32.93Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a... -
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights Classic Art Edition by Philip Pullman 9780702313998
RRP: £14.99£10.07The first volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy, re-published in hardback with a stunning fine art cover. "Without this child, we shall all die." Lyra Belacqua and her animal... -
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives Maria C. Scott 9781138379046
RRP: £47.99£41.81Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth... -
Wise Children: York Notes Advanced by Angela Carter 9781405835633 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.92Do you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want, York Notes can help. York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English... -
The Earl of Oxford and the Making of Shakespeare: The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context by Richard Malim 9780786463138
RRP: £24.99£20.29The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the... -
Letters of Basil Bunting by Alex Niven 9780198754817
RRP: £39.99£34.23An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985). This is a long-awaited first selected edition of the letters of Basil Bunting, one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth century. It includes a large portion of Bunting's... -
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation Lawrence Venuti 9781138093164
RRP: £29.99£26.64Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth... -
Pedagogies for Diverse Contexts Alan Pence (University of Victoria, Canada.) 9780815350064
RRP: £35.99£31.69Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful... -
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate
RRP: £17.99£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451696325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time by Gavin Francis
RRP: £18.99£16.32In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words...