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Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
RRP: £16.99£12.92Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual... -
Collected Screenplays 2 by Harold Pinter 9780571203246
RRP: £25.00£17.40There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate craftmanship and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other writers, makes the three... -
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc Bonnie Wheeler 9780815323372
RRP: £135.00£117.28Joan of Arc has long piqued the historical imagination, for it seems impossible that a peasant-maid couldhave led the French army, crowned her king, and then been burned as a heretic, only later to be found a saint. This volume of original essays seeks... -
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: £15.00£11.36David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was... -
Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction by Charlotte Gordon 9780198869191
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just... -
Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-18 by E. J. Clery 9780719040276
RRP: £19.99£17.82How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which... -
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson 9780099565994
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode... -
Shame in Shakespeare by Ewan Fernie 9780415258272
RRP: £135.00£117.28One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on... -
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £18.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870199Author McmurtryPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Writing Poetry by W. N. Herbert
RRP: £37.99£33.38This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative... -
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Simon Young
RRP: £6.50£6.11Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first appeared. By publishing Religion and the Decline of Magic, Thomas became the first... -
Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane
RRP: £19.99£17.69Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an... -
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey 9780571144389 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and... -
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
RRP: £9.99£6.70The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri 9780691238616
RRP: £12.99£10.15Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on... -
Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Natalya Lusty 9781138245617
RRP: £49.99£43.50How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's... -
An Analysis of John Maynard Keyne's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Collins 9781912127900
RRP: £6.50£6.11John Maynard Keynes's 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a perfect example of the global power of critical thinking. A radical reconsideration of some of the founding principles and accepted axioms of classical economics at the... -
The Book of Promethea by Helene Cixous
RRP: £23.99£20.84In writing Le Livre de Promethea Helene Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson 9780199288359
£42.64English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell 9780719074103
RRP: £19.99£14.87Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary... -
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an... -
Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities by Siraj Ahmed 9781503604025
RRP: £24.99£21.67For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the... -
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Abel
RRP: £23.00£22.13"A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of... -
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation by Jerome J. McGiann 9780226558509
RRP: £30.00£29.25Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology-by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations-Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the... -
Mad Love by Andre Breton
RRP: £14.99£11.42Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: £19.99£17.69Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep... -
An Analysis of Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Jason Schukraft 9781912127498
RRP: £6.50£6.11For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief. According to this way of thinking, we can know, for example, that we are human because [1] we believe ourselves to be human; [2] that... -
The Membranes: A Novel by Ari Larissa Heinrich
RRP: £13.99£12.08It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media... -
Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: £17.49£15.11A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and... -
Grotesque by Justin Edwards
RRP: £22.99£20.16Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its... -
On Essays: Montaigne to the Present by Thomas Karshan
£24.93Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions... -
The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordworth, Keats, and Baudelaire by Geraldine Friedman 9780804725446
RRP: £66.00£57.33Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the... -
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gerard Genette
RRP: £50.00£43.81By 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... -
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
RRP: £19.99£17.69Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work,... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
£17.13The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader by Ken Hiltner
RRP: £39.99£35.46Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting... -
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean by Emma Dymock
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841058Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony by Denise Riley 9780804739115
RRP: £23.99£20.84Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: "What does it matter what you say about other people?" The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She wonders why the requirement to be a... -
The Postmodern Arts: An Introductory Reader by Nigel Wheale 9780415126113
RRP: £41.99£36.75For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the... -
Poems Of Mourning Peter Washington 9781857157369
RRP: £10.99£7.77Many 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...