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Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations by Harry Berger 9780823224289
$123.92Berger describes himself as "a reconstructed old New Critic," and his publications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of the ways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance. The thirteen... -
Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill by Richard Seaford 9780198777250
$145.73Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of... -
A Book of Homage to Shakespeare by Sir Israel Gollancz 9780198769699
$146.34On 23 April 1916, Oxford University Press published a magnificent volume entitled A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, edited by Professor Israel Gollancz. Created to mark the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's death in the very midst of the First World War, it... -
The Force of What's Possible by Lily Hoang 9781937658274
RRP: $23.21$21.90Is there any avant-garde? What's at stake when 100 writers think through issues of accessibility and audience? This is a book comprised of answers-to these questions and their offspring-as various and contradictory as its contributors, ranging from... -
In Conversation with the Stars by Anupama Chopra 9789353335182
RRP: $12.90$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353335182Author Anupama ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
Yoga and Diet for Weight Loss by Bijoylaxmi Hota 9789353334864
RRP: $9.03$6.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334864Author Bijoylaxmi HotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry by Robert Bly 9781945680267
RRP: $20.63$18.90This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado,... -
Acker by Douglas A. Martin 9781937658717
RRP: $16.76$16.14A lyric cover of Kathy Acker's career and a study of the development of narrative in her books deftly tracing Acker's interactions with a diverse palette of avant-gardisms, world letters, cultures, and theory. Martin follows Acker through New York's... -
Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey 9781566894111
RRP: $16.76$15.66"Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, and examine... -
Queer Bloomsbury by Brenda S. Helt 9781474401692
$124.82This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As... -
A Luminous Uplift, Landscape & Memoir by John Brandi 9781945680663
RRP: $25.80$17.45"They are a form of language on landscape, a form of inscape, that, intimate and moving, are also arresting and revelatory."-Arthur SzeA Luminous Uplift is a rich compendium of John Brandi's new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative... -
Body Sutra: Tracing the human form through art & imagination by Alka Pande 9788129145284
$76.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129145284Author Alka PandeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World by Joe Donnelly 9781945572876
RRP: $16.76$15.36During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with... -
One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe by Molly McQuade 9781932511697
RRP: $16.76$14.93"Readers will find that the words profiled here have a new trace of meaning, warmth, and a time-worn glow."John Morse, publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc. In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, Molly McQuade asks the... -
American Romances: Essays by Rebecca Brown 9780872864986
RRP: $16.76$14.10"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher... -
Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday by Susan Gevirtz 9781937658687
RRP: $14.18$14.07This volume gathers a diverse group of writing, from essays and correspondence to poems and songs, written in honor of Kathleen Fraser on the occasion of her eightieth birthday and celebrated at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco on March 22, 2015... -
A Family of Strangers by Professor Deborah Tall 9781932511444
RRP: $18.05$16.86"Without self-absorption, Tall traces the self's emergence in a place which she recognized from the start as her testing place."-Seamus Heaney "In the literature of place, Deborah Tall's book stands out for its delicacy, range of learning, and... -
Best Canadian Essays 2018 by Christopher Doda 9781988040455
RRP: $16.76$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988040455Author Christopher DodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tightrope BooksPublisher Tightrope Books -
Listening to the Bees by Mark Winston 9780889713468
$20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713468Author Mark WinstonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review by Danielle Ofri 9781934137048
RRP: $19.34$17.29"A kaleidoscope of creativity ...unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable."-Journal of the American Medical Association Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated... -
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration by George Albon 9781937658922
RRP: $19.34$17.51Lyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call, ascensional modes of thinking, pop songs, the built environment and its discontents, the... -
Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity by Leslie Fiedler 9780879239497
RRP: $11.60$10.46Twelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.Book InformationISBN 9780879239497Author Leslie FiedlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint David R. Godine Publisher IncPublisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc -
Asclepias by Nathanaël 9781937658397
RRP: $14.18$11.86The talks gathered in Asclepias: The Milkweeds are all concerned with discrepancy and extinction. Polylingual and transdisciplinary, each essay addresses translation as a form of disagreement and photography as its mis-fitting corollary. Calling up an... -
Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism by Clarence Major 9781566891097
RRP: $15.47$14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891097Author Clarence MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 354g -
Retrievals by Garrett Caples 9781933517988
RRP: $20.63$19.04"I adore [Caples'] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging." --Don Share "Caples' discussions are careful, nuanced, personal, and opinionated." --Steven Fama "Caples is part of a younger generation of writers... -
Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays by Charles Foran 9781897231418
RRP: $19.34$16.59In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai... -
The Little Norton Reader: 50 Essays from the First 50 Years, with 2016 MLA Update by Melissa Goldthwaite 9780393624106
RRP: $57.41$42.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393624106Author Melissa A GoldthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Villon's Last Will: Language and Authority in the Testament by Tony Hunt 9780198159148
$53.21Villon studies have traditionally emphasized the documentary and didactic value of the Testament, concentrating on problems of historical referentiality. It is assumed that the work has a significant autobiographical element and that it has much to tell... -
A Year with Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9781567922981
RRP: $16.76$14.84Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America’s great visionary and philosophical minds.“A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known... -
A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption by Matt Donovan 9781595347602
RRP: $16.76$15.89The title cloud of Matt Donovan's A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape refers to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that in 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under twenty feet of ash. It's no surprise, then, that Donovan found the sacred ruins a site of... -
A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch by Paul Virilio 9781906497859
RRP: $24.51$20.90French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch... -
Cabinet 23: Fruits and Vegetables by Sina Najafi 9781932698190
$9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932698190Author Sina NajafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CabinetPublisher CabinetWeight(grams) 426g -
Best Canadian Essays 2024 by Marcello Di Cintio 9781771965644
RRP: $16.76$11.13Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2022.Featuring:Lyndsie Bourgon • Nicole Boyce • Robert Colman • Daniel Allen Cox • Acadia Currah • Sadiqa de... -
Atlantic Editions 1-6 Boxed Set by Lenika Cruz 9781638931584
RRP: $72.24$51.20The first six Atlantic Editions in a boxed collection.On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerityby Lenika CruzA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom.On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politicsby Megan GarberAn investigation of... -
Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors by Jeffrey Skinner 9781889330594
RRP: $16.76$16.41"Discipline, humility, kindness. These qualities cohere in the best mentors, bundled into an overarching approach to the art of writing. It is not, I think, coincidence that the writers in this collection remember these qualities best when speaking of... -
New Directions in Law and Literature by Elizabeth S. Anker 9780190456368
RRP: $151.58$126.46After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the... -
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer by Tony Kushner 9781559361002
RRP: $16.76$14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361002Author Tony KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Malaya: Essays on Freedom by Cinelle Barnes 9781542093309
RRP: $25.79$19.87From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner 9781982157708
RRP: $23.21$16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982157708Author Rachel KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 140g -
Children and Other Wild Animals by Brian Doyle 9780870717543
RRP: $24.45$15.84In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and...