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Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his political and intellectual legacy: the future through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611458213Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602234550Author Lara Messersmith-GlavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams)...

Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his works, at once a revaluation of the aesthetics of...

"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652402Author Ruskin BondFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of 'Women and Fiction'; she spoke about her conviction that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. The...

From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports-people are kissing one another. The sublime kiss. The ambiguous kiss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316925280Author David Foster WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353338541Author R. GopalakrishnanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062432964Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 183mm *...

A facsimilie copy of his most influential work by Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659), being a powerful and multi-layered allegory in the form of a conversation between three birds - an eagle, a raven and a dove - which represent the State, the Established Church...

A facsimilie copy of his most influential work by Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659), being a powerful and multi-layered allegory in the form of a conversation between three birds - an eagle, a raven and a dove - which represent the State, the Established Church...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094574Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This is the second of two collections of MacNeice's prose writings, prepared by Alan Heuser. The first, concentrating on his literary criticism, came out in 1987 (still available from OUP). The present collection will be of interest to a wider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812989786Author Teju ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425784Author Tour Format PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119712Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615685274Author Kenneth E HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Steering Committee PressPublisher Steering Committee PressWeight(grams)...

As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life...

Dramatist, novelist, lyric poet, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) is unquestionably a major figure of Germany's national literature; his career and works created a culture in themselves. In this book T. J. Reed shows that in every phase...

This anthology features the writing of popular newspaper columnists and journalists in the USA.Book InformationISBN 9780195060638Author Karl E. MeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 499Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc

From celebrated San Francisco Chronicle columnist and features writer Adair Lara comes this collection of humorous and thoughtful advice from readers. In it she's compiled approximately 225 bits of wisdom not found in your usual self-help or advice books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508043Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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"The thike, Claire Crowther's imaginary creation, 'broods, plays, and is "othered" by an uncaring society'. The poetry that appeals to Crowther, and for which she acts as such an eloquent advocate, often does the same. The essays of Sense and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496240507Author Michael DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553447Author Rory WatermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035036103Author Jamaica KincaidFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

From walks in the Luxembourg Garden to letters describing tea with an irascible Tolstoy - Maurice Betz, Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator, enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great poet. This book, inspired by their time working together on the first...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472297747Author Shenequa GoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631472Author Jhumpa LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631465Author Michael FinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

The Necessity of Poetics marks the moves Robert Sheppard has made as a poet-critic around the notion of poetics in general, and the poetics of linguistically innovative poetry in particular, and his own poetics as an outcome of those.

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'We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We’re as...

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven...