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Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences Michael Lynn Crews 9781477330845
€59.25Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate... -
Homo Americanus: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, AND QUEER MASCULINITIES by John S. Bak 9781611474299
RRP: €116.62€102.46Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun... -
The A to Z of Russian Theater by Laurence Senelick 9780810876200
RRP: €53.55€47.47Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world. Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector, Maksim... -
Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion by Kathy Rees 9781476681245
RRP: €42.83€36.13The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these... -
Walt Whitman: A Companion by John E. Schwiebert 9781476676586
RRP: €42.83€36.13Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and... -
Crossing Borders: A Critical Introduction to the Works of Mary Rose Callaghan by Maryanne Felter 9781611491463
RRP: €80.92€70.36The first full-length study of Mary Rose Callaghan's life and works argues that Callaghan's books examine the boundaries that constrict Irish society as well as Irish authors. Her novels explore limits of gender roles, strictures around mental health,... -
Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne by Martha F. Bowden 9781611493016
RRP: €104.72€92.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 by Judith Tschann 9780197224175
€72.85The late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional material, and texts with practical applications, ranging... -
Early Modern Drama and the Eastern Europen Elsewhere: Representation of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu 9781611474039
€135.04This study integrates Renaissance texts of classical and early modern geography, cartography, and travel writing with postmodern theory to challenge the long-standing tradition of Eastern European space as a distant land of elsewhere and to demonstrate... -
Women Writing the Nation: National Identity, Female Community, and the British-French Connection, 1770-1820 by Leanne Maunu 9781611482744
€136.16Women Writing the Nation engages in recent discussions of the development of British nationalism during the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Leanne Maunu argues that women writers looked not to their national identity, but rather to their gender... -
Latin American Shakespeares by Bernice W. Kliman 9781611473063
€129.59The subjects of the essays in Latin American Shakespeares range from the nineteenth century through the present; from high- to middle- to low-brow stories, plays, films, and poems; from Mexico to Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the U.S. barrio, and diverse... -
Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays 9780393886405
€93.74The Fourteenth High School Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature offers an exciting mix of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays that instructors love to teach. Organized by genre and theme, the book provides a flexible approach... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Elizabeth Knowles 9780198800521
€53.74This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. What is a ham-and-egger? What are... -
The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York by Martha Nandorfy 9781611481761
€102.72An in-depth study to date of García Lorca's "dark period," this volume moves away from biographical criticism to relate the darkness to the duende's presence. It examines how Lorca meshes biblical apocalyptic discourse with his distinctively pantheistic... -
From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling by S. T. Joshi 9781611471991
€114.61Some of Mencken’s most interesting letters were written to George Sterling, a pupil of Ambrose Bierce. The correspondence—which survives nearly intact on both sides—covers a wealth of subjects, including Mencken’s editorship of the Smart Set (1914-23)... -
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing by John Sturrock 9780198182627
RRP: €104.72€89.70Keeping track of contemporary writing is by its nature difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism? Are we even up to date with the best novels or plays of... -
Socially Symbolic Acts: The Historicizing Fictions of Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi by Joseph Francese 9781611473322
€123.83This book discusses issues of broad cultural consequence by examining the work of three of ItalyOs most prominent living novelists_Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. It uses an approach that is both historicist and psychoanalytic to... -
Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority by Martin Wechselblatt 9781611480856
€101.41In this book, Martin Wechselblatt explores Samuel Johnson's double professional self-construction as alternately Augustan sage and Grub Street hack: as the exemplary "Dr. Johnson" and as one of the many "authors to let" brought to life and just as... -
The Creative Vision of Bessie Head by Coreen Brown 9781611472578
€106.77This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace 9780719067884
RRP: €95.20€67.46Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Prof Barry Windeatt 9780198878810
RRP: €95.20€89.87This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of... -
A Student's Guide to Literature by R. V. Young
RRP: €10.65€8.93This guide to Western literature and poetry addresses timely issues. It demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are... -
A Tom Sawyer Companion: An Autobiographical Guided Tour with Mark Twain by John D. Evans
€80.60Like most authors, Mark Twain wrote from personal experience, but, unlike many authors, he left behind a wealth of autobiographical material recording those personal experiences. His autobiography, letters, speeches, and notebooks contain many... -
Octavia E. Butler: A Literary Companion by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
RRP: €42.83€35.22Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible... -
Aclaraciones a la Poesia de Holderlin by Martin Heidegger
€27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420647500Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR) -
A Reading of Edward Taylor by Thomas M. Davis
€106.77This work examines the subtle changes in Taylor's attitudes toward the nature and purpose of his poetry, particularly in Series 1 of the Preparatory Meditations. Davis argues that Gods Determinations is the poem in which Taylor becomes a poet. The early... -
Mark Twain's Quarrel with Heaven by Mark Twain
€50.86To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400189Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
The Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays
€68.64The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Portable Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more... -
Power of Sympathy and the Coquette by William Brown
RRP: €35.70€31.75To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808403463Author William BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither by Herman Melville
€43.82To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400172Author Herman MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
For the Major and Selected Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson
€40.79To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401322Author Constance Fenimore WoolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman... -
Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct Material by Barbara Maria Zaczek
€101.36Censored Sentiments offers a new perspective on women as letter writers and on the eighteenth-century increase in, and subsequent decline of, epistolary fiction by tracing forms of censorship that affected female letters in England, France, Italy, and... -
The Text in Play: Representations of Rehearsal in Modern Drama by Robert Baker-White
€105.53The Text in Play interrogates theatrical creativity by focusing on how twentieth-century playwrights have incorporated scenes of rehearsal into their dramatic texts. Contemporary theoretical perspectives, principally from Brecht, Bahktin, and Barthes,... -
The Critical Poem: Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America by Thorpe Running
€101.33The OOcritical poemOO explains a poetry that is self-conscious about its inability to say what it means. This concept underlies and informs the work of eight Latin American poets, spanning three generations: Paz, Huerta, Borges, Juarroz, Pizarnik, Girro,... -
Titus Andronicus (Contemporary Shakespeare Series) by A. L. Rowse
€43.22To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780819139443Author A. L. RowseFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of... -
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee by David Crockett
€40.79To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400219Author David CrockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
The Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary by Sandra Clark 9780140514216
€19.16This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare's plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights,... -
100 Objects of Doctor Who by Phillip Bates 9781913637484
€11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637484Author Philip BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books -
The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 9780375706394
RRP: €19.03€13.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
A Study Guide for Rose Reginald's Twelve Angry Men by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399449
RRP: €11.84€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399449Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)...