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Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) by Noriko Mizuta Lippit 9781138895423
RRP: $174.15$151.29This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a... -
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay Graham Good 9781138794849
RRP: $56.75$49.59First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in... -
Defoe's Review 1704-13, Volume 8 (1711-12), Part I by John McVeagh 9781138285194
$67.00Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review. It is... -
Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences by Kostas Boyiopoulos 9781032093345
RRP: $51.59$45.23Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one... -
Public Works by Neil Hagerty 9780965618380
RRP: $19.34$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965618380Author Neil HagertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag CityWeight(grams) 163g -
The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017 by Simon Wilson 9780994141569
RRP: $34.82$24.02A better quality national conversation? Conducted by clever people who know a thing or two? You're holding it in your hand. This annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays is made for anyone who thinks there's little to stimulate... -
Home: New Writing by Thom Conroy 9780994140753
RRP: $34.82$24.02A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of 'Home' and commissioned from 21 of New Zealand's best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting, they carry the reader... -
The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016 by Nicola Legat 9780994130068
RRP: $34.82$24.02GREAT MINDS SHARE GREAT IDEAS AND STRONG VIEWSA better-quality national conversation? Conducted by clever people who know a thing ortwo? You're holding it in your hands.From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity and... -
Valley 101 Great Big Book of Life by Clay Thompson 9780935810738
RRP: $20.63$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935810738Author Clay ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Primer Publishers,U.S.Publisher American Traveler PressWeight(grams) 316g -
Sexy Sixties by Harry Smith 9780913559741
RRP: $25.79$18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559741Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 158g -
The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence by David Axelrod 9780870719691
$35.31In The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one and nothing he loves to pass from this life without praise, even if it meant praising the most bewildering losses. In each of... -
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb 9780877458517
$36.71Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his Elia essays in the ""London Magazine"" in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823... -
Palavers Of African Literature: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, Vol. 1 by Toyin Falola 9780865439924
RRP: $38.64$25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865439924Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 704g -
Penitencia De Amor (Burgos, 1514) by Ximenez De Urrea,Pedro Manuel 9780859893374
RRP: $25.80$21.19An early sixteenth century Spanish romance.Book InformationISBN 9780859893374Author Ximenez De Urrea,Pedro ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher University of Exeter Press -
A Saturnalia of Bunk: Selections from The Free Lance, 1911-1915 by H. L. Mencken 9780821422700
RRP: $50.31$44.01H. L. Mencken's reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and... -
Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record by Edith Lewis 9780803279964
RRP: $30.95$26.88Edith Lewis met Willa Cather in 1903 and remained her close friend and traveling companion until Cather's death in 1947. In this straightforward and affectionate biography Lewis illuminates the human side of the great American novelist.A personal... -
Lay Sermons by James Hogg 9780748607464
RRP: $122.55$111.52Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd provides lay sermons... -
On Money by Rick Morton 9780733645761
RRP: $10.31$7.22Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural... -
Dal Pen Rheswm: Cyfweliadau Gydag Emyr Humphreys by Rocet Arwel Jones 9780708315613
RRP: $10.31$7.95A collection of five interviews with one of the most versatile and prolific Welsh authors of the 20th century, celebrating his life and work as he reaches his eightieth birthday.Book InformationISBN 9780708315613Author Rocet Arwel JonesFormat... -
Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit (Llythyr y Preutur Sion) by Gwilym Lloyd Edwards 9780708315347
RRP: $19.34$15.04A critical study of a Welsh translation of Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit, a letter supposedly sent by Prester John to Manuel, emperor of Constantinople about 1165, comprising presentations of two translations of the document, taken from manuscripts Jesus... -
The Allure of Grammar: The Glamour of Angie Estes's Poetry by Douglas R. Rutledge 9780472037377
RRP: $32.19$20.55Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Steph Burt has written that she "has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world." In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes's... -
Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood 9780393355567
RRP: $15.47$11.91In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction. Growing up in a household that didn't foster the love of literature,... -
Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym Thomas Parry 9780708313565
RRP: $21.92$17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Thomas Parry was a scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal and poet.Book InformationISBN 9780708313565Author Thomas... -
The Bitcoin Saga: A Mixed Montage by Rachna Singh 9789388271844
RRP: $16.76$12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388271844Author Rachna SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities Jasbir Jain 9788120736108
RRP: $27.08$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120736108Author Jasbir JainFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 362g -
Pasolini's Our Nathanael 9781937658908
RRP: $15.47$10.32The body of the filmmaker is itself a discrepancy. This may be one of this book's claims, if it were to advance something like an argument. Instead it writes its way through to a dry swamp, in the elusive company of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mizoguchi Kenji,... -
A body, in spite: a slight philosophy for actors by Alain Jugnon 9781937658755
RRP: $15.47$10.32Philosopher-playwright Alain Jugnon's a body, in spite introduces this prolific French author to an English-speaking readership. The aphorisms that comprise this slight philosophy for actors are an inventoried body with and without its defenses. With... -
Edge: Essays, Reviews, Interviews by Mary Dalton 9781926794273
RRP: $20.63$13.52Edge collects thirty years of essays, reviews, and interviews by celebrated Newfoundland poet Mary Dalton. Driven by a need to reconfigure how the margin is seen in literature, culture and politics, Dalton explores the work of writers and artists who... -
First Footsteps in East Africa: or, an Exploration of Harrar: v. 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton 9781850771289
RRP: $25.80$19.40Soon after returning from his celebrated journey to Mecca disguised as an Arab, Burton set out on a similarly perilous trip to the city of Harrar in the heart of little-known Somaliland. As related in the preface to his journal: 'He disappeared into the... -
Guernica #2: Annual 2015 by Nick Flynn 9781608465378
RRP: $25.79$17.65Guernica is an award-winning online magazine of ideas, art, poetry and fiction published twice monthly. The contributors come from dozens of countries and write in nearly as many languages. This annual collects the best of Guernica's published features,... -
Montaigne Amongst the Moderns: Receptions of the Essays by Dudley M. Marchi 9781571810076
RRP: $138.03$111.16Montaigne is one of the most cross-cultural writers ever - both in the assimilation of writings from other cultures into his own work and in the subsequent translations, critical receptions, and creative adaptations of the Essais by other writers... -
Dialogism And Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre by Jacob Blevins 9781575911205
RRP: $118.68$96.60Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. The lyric subject's understanding of himself/herself - through the very... -
Voices, Places: Essays by David Mason 9781589881235
RRP: $27.08$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881235Author David MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 272g -
Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives by Roger Webster 9781571817914
RRP: $36.06$29.13During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume... -
The Silver Domino by Marie Corelli 9781513277783
RRP: $9.02$6.30Author Marie Corelli's brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It's a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing. ... -
Dead Reckoning: Transatlantic Passages on Europe and America by Anthony Di Renzo 9781438461120
RRP: $18.78$11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438461120Author Anthony Di RenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press -
With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany Justin Phillip Reed 9781566896917
RRP: $16.76$12.02The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction... -
If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display by Nick Thran 9780889714489
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714489Author Nick ThranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions -
From The Personal To The Political: Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative by Andrea O'Reilly 9781575911298
RRP: $118.68$96.60From the "Personal to the Political" seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. The collection aims at evidentiating how autobiographical writing gives voice... -
Nostalgia For A Redeemed Future: Critical Theory by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi 9780874130720
RRP: $51.60$47.41The articles in this book stress the relevance to the present of the early stages of Critical Theory. On the one hand they aim at the recognition of the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical...