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A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction by Roberta White 9781611473124
$123.48A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction is a critical study of the portrayal of women artists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels in English, including British, American, Irish, and Canadian women writers. This book... -
Love Notes and Letters and The Letter Case: Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Madame de Villedieu) by Roxanne Decker Lalande 9781611473100
$101.86This volume offers the first translation into English of two seminal works by the seventeenth-century French woman author, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, better known as Madame de Villedieu. The first of these works, Lettres et billets galants (Love Notes... -
Tracking Thoreau: Double-Crossing Nature and Technology by John Dolis 9781611472943
$116.02Tracking Thoreau explores the constellation of three central issues in Thoreau's oeuvre: nature, culture, and technology. Here, nature's own technology-above all, it's inherent ability to stray, to wonder, to transcend boundaries, to transform... -
Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino by Anthony Julian Tamburri 9781611472592
$102.27This study examines the necessity of reading retrospectively. In this manner, the reader who comes along after the composition of an authorOs opus may better understand the authorOs earlier works after reading a later one.Book InformationISBN... -
Homeric Dictionary by Georg Autenrieth 9781585100286
RRP: $33.53$27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100286Author Georg AutenriethFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason 9781442276192
RRP: $176.73$27.36The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural... -
Keywords for Environmental Studies by Joni Adamson 9780814762967
$116.46A new vocabulary for Environmental Studies Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and... -
The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4: C Passus 15-19; B Passus 13-17 by Traugott Lawler 9780812250268
RRP: $117.39$103.10The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical... -
Visible God: Staging the History of Money by Newman, Rafaël 9780761812524
$109.44The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian... -
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature by Mary Ebbott 9780739105375
$114.71In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. Employing an approach that maintains... -
Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film by Eddie Sammons 9780810844469
$108.11The birth of the cinema at the end of the nineteenth century and the development of the narrative film made the plays of William Shakespeare a natural source for filmmakers. A hundred years later his work continues to reach contemporary audiences,... -
Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies by Piotr Sadowski 9781611492392
$144.23Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistency of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. The theory considers human... -
The Whirligig of Time: Essays on Shakespeare And Czechoslovakia by Zdenek Stríbrný 9781611493023
$123.52Zdenek Stríbrný, an internationally respected Shakespeare scholar, was Professor of English and American Studies at Charles University, Prague, until the Russian occupation of 1968. He was reinstated after the 'Velvet Revolution' of 1989. This volume,... -
The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique by Christopher J. Cobb 9781611493115
$147.50This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The... -
Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer by Ben Siegel 9781611491470
$136.64Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. Even fewer writers have excelled in various forms of the comic as Roth has for over a half-century. Playful and Serious assembles a group of... -
From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications by Barbara E. Lacey 9781611493078
$122.83This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers... -
New Essays in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Glynis Carr 9781611481365
$109.74This collection gathers new essays in ecofeminist literary criticism and theory that extend the critical trajectory of ecocriticism toward interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, and internationalism in the context of social ecofeminist theory and... -
What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson's 'the Kingfishers' by Ralph Maud 9781611471496
$114.19Taking its title from the first line of Charles Olson's poem "The Kingfishers," this book provides a full-scale exegesis of that milestone poem in postwar American literature. Maud demonstrates that this poem is so crucial to understanding Olson's... -
Cambridge Poets of the Great War: An Anthology by MICHAEL COPP 9781611472042
$123.52This anthology contains 155 poems by forty-nine poets, all of whom have connections with Cambridge University. The poems have been selected to represent a comprehensive range of responses: patriotic, protest, satirical, realistic, elegiac, pastoral, and... -
The Death-Ego and the Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis by Gavriel Reisner 9781611472240
$131.32This volume presents original views of the relationship between desire and romance. It begins by looking anew at the nature of desire, citing its central theoretical text as Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'. It traces the struggle betwen myth and... -
Donne and the Resources of Kind by Anthony D. Cousins 9781611472165
$101.96Donne and the Resources of Kind is the first book about Donne’s writings to focus on their relations to genre. It considers what Donne took from the resources of kind and how he transformed the resources on which he drew. Most of the chapters discuss... -
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892 by Robin Nicholson 9781611481501
$112.44The subject of this book-an Italian-born exiled Prince-has become an icon of misjudged romanticism and Scottish nationalism; much of this is due to the way he has been portrayed over the years. This study traces how the enduring visual image of Prince... -
Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the 19th-Century Novel in Spain by Elisa Martí-López 9781611481662
$109.93Borrowed Words addresses the apparent paradox that underpins the processes of cultural production and consumption in mid-nineteenth-century Europe: the fact that nations at different narrative stages become contiguous literary markets. It focuses on... -
James Joyce and German Theory: 'The Romantic School and All That' by Barbara Laman 9781611472844
$109.74In this volume the author compares James Joyce’s aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ chapter of Ulysses, with the theories of the early German Romantics.Book... -
Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature by Alice A. Nelson 9781611481556
$134.33Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in the context of the Chilean women's movement and... -
The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early 18th Century Theater by Katherine West Scheil 9781611481785
$140.06In The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater, Katherine West Scheil considers the reception history of Shakespeare's comedies within the context of the Restoration and early eighteenth-century theater, from 1660... -
Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of Narrative by Catherine Jones 9781611481808
$115.79Catherine Jone's Literary Memory explores the relationship of memory to writing in the "long" eighteenth century in Scotland and America. It does so by arguing for Walter Scott's adaptation and development in the Waverley Novels of varieties of "literary... -
The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition by James J. Pancrazio 9781611482089
$124.29Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a key figure in the foundation of contemporary Latin American fiction. By taking a critical position vis-á-vis the restitutionary current in Latin American studies (e.g., to focus on the myths of the noble... -
Acts of Criticism by Paul Nelsen 9781611473025
$124.09This book assembles a cast of sixteen distinguished theater historians and performance critics, each of whom has contributed significantly to our understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Their... -
Waiting for the End: Gender and Editing in the Contemporary Novel by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611473698
RRP: $118.68$97.11Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels as demonstrations of the continuing concern with the gender of ending in narrative. Traditional concepts of the role of ending came under question in the later twentieth century, as feminists... -
Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy by Marie Orton 9781611473773
$119.80This volume is intended as complementary to Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy that traced the changes in literature written by migrants in Italy from 1990 to the end of that decade. The short stories and excerpts from novels... -
Littoral of the Letter: Saer's Art of Narration by Gabriel Riera 9781611482706
$109.74Littoral of the Letter is the first full-fledged study in English of the world of the late Argentine author Juan Jose Saer (1937-2005), who was highly regarded as Argentina's best living novelist, a continuator of Burgess's literary legacy. Characterized... -
Mother Africa, Father Marx by Hilary Owen 9781611482638
$137.29This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the past half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent... -
Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space by Katheryn A. Everly 9781611481730
$115.70Through close textual analyses of the work of Mercè Rodoreda, Remedios Varo, oig, and Carme Riera, this study isolates that which defines a distinctly female narrative voice in Catalan art and literature. From the success of Catalan surrealism, through... -
Island of Daemons: The Lough Derg Pilgrimage and the Poets Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney by Terence Dewsnap 9781611490893
$119.98This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material_with its cultural, political, as well as religious... -
And in Our Time: Vision, Revision, and British Writing of the 1930s by Anthony Shuttleworth 9781611481648
$116.40And in Our Time brings together essays which, in diverse ways, not only revise existing views on thirties writing, but also provide ways of accounting for its critical neglect. The essays examine, from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives,... -
From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 9781611482980
$128.94This book analyzes the narrative and rhetorical structures of Latin American colonial texts by establishing a dialogue with contemporary studies on minority discourse, minor literatures, and colonial and postcolonial theory. The first chapter reviews the... -
Early Augustan Virgil: Translations by Denham, Godolphin, and Waller by Robin Edward Sowerby 9781611483307
$128.60Early Augustan Virgil prints for the first time in its entirety the substantial version of Virgil comprising most of Aeneid II-VI by the young royalist poet Sir John Denham in the 1630s. Denham's later published versions, The Destruction of Troy of 1656... -
The Origin of Medieval Drama by Leonard Goldstein 9781611472684
$124.19The liturgical drama arose in a period of rapidly integrating feudalism. Christians experienced contradiction between a Church that offered salvation and a Church that, through its large landholdings, exploited a large number of peasants. This study... -
SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCE: New Studies by Frank Occhiogrosso 9781611473544
$119.84Shakespearean Performance: New Studies contains ten essays in Shakespearean performance scholarship, plus an introduction by the editor. They are papers presented at Drew University by some of the best Shakespearean scholars in the field: Andrew Gurr,...