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Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz by Donatella Ester Di Cesare 9781438442532
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue... -
After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes by Robert Fraser 9783030351717
Booksplease Price: £46.91Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence... -
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by x Mike Rapport 9780349128146
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Belle Epoque Paris: Haussmann's airy boulevards, well-trimmed parks and markets. The capital of the 19th century. The glittering, glamorous age that would be lost in the industrialised human butchery... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.54Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume: examines canonical... -
Camille Henrot: Milkyways Camille Henrot 9783775755344
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.82Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-making and life. Each chapter delivers a cosmos of... -
Proust, Beckett, and Narration by James H. Reid 9780521828475
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.03This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the twentieth century's most important writers of prose. Using a combination of theoretical analysis and close readings of... -
What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Professor Michael Lucey
Booksplease Price: £31.37Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental... -
Proust's Deadline by Christine M. Cano 9780252030703
Booksplease Price: £37.88Marcel Proust's multivolume masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913. Over the next fifty years, it gained a reputation as one of the greatest literary works of the... -
Proust and the Victorians: The Lamp of Memory by Robert Fraser 9781349232512
Booksplease Price: £46.28In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who... -
Ancient Biography and its Afterlives: Plutarch and Co. by Robert Fraser 9783030351687
Booksplease Price: £46.91Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence... -
Harbours and Heroes Rodney Lord 9781836285502
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Harbours and Heroes is the story of a love affair with sailing which gradually developed into a vivid exploration of the history of Europe through its coastlines. From early on in his sailing career... -
City of Immortals: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris by Carolyn Campbell 9781943532292
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.25This first-person account of a legendary necropolis will delight Francophiles, tourists and armchair travelers, while enriching the experience of taphophiles (cemetery lovers) and aficionados of art... -
The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche by Ronald Hayman
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a... -
The Food Lovers' Anthology: A literary compendium by Bodleian Library the
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.69'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the... -
Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism Zakir Paul 9780691257983
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of... -
French Gay Modernism by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780252029455
Booksplease Price: £40.94The first four decades of the twentieth century saw male homosexuality appear in French literature with increasing frequency and boldness. Departing from earlier, more muted presentations, AndrE... -
Lully Studies by John Hajdu Heyer 9780521118651
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78The historical importance of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully has long been recognised. Regarded as the founder of French opera, as the embodiment of Baroque musical style and a key figure in the... -
Giacomo Leopardi's Search For a Common Life Through Poetry: A Different Nobility, A Different Love by Frank Rosengarten 9781611475050
Booksplease Price: £96.65This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of... -
The Republic of Trees by Sam Taylor 9780571222940
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run... -
Edmund Wilson: Critic For Our Time by Janet Groth 9780821409190
Booksplease Price: £40.31In the course of a career that spanned five decades, Edmund Wilson's literary output was impressive. His life's work includes five volumes of poetry, two works of fiction, thirteen plays, and more... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language... -
Transforming Student Travel: A Resource Guide for Educators by Faye Brenner 9781475820706
Booksplease Price: £37.81Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, "The real voyage of... -
Equator by Antonin Varenne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.601871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in Nebraska.Taking the name of Billy Webb, he is hired by bison hunters, but leaves... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise... -
The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach Margaret Topping 9783031316289
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.44This book explores how the Humanities can play an essential services role in addressing global challenges such as the Covid pandemic. In arguing for their contribution alongside that of the Health... -
Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception by John Attridge 9781138271678
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29With the twentieth century came a new awareness of just how much an individual was obliged to accept on trust, and this heightened awareness of social trust in turn prompted new kinds of anxiety... -
Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk by Kevin Kopelson 9780816644025
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the desk-rolltop or bureau-plat, cluttered or bare, the nestlike desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any... -
Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168595
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168588
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.50A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk Bryan Counter 9781839993435
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.17This book examines the question of aesthetic experience in the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk in order to propose a reconsideration of aesthetic experience... -
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up Dave Barry 9781668021798
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.55America's most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you'd expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything.How does the son of a Presbyterian... -
Hyumŏnijŭm, cheguk, minjok: Han'guk ŭi munhak kwa munhwa pip'yŏng by Travis Workman
Booksplease Price: £21.82Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century-writing in the context of... -
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950: French, Italian, and Spanish Criticism, 1900-1950: Volume 8 by Rene Wellek 9780300054514
Booksplease Price: £58.77The final volume of Rene Wellek's monumental history of modern criticism is a comprehensive survey of the main currents of twentieth-century criticism in Western Europe. In this volume, as in the... -
Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning by Aleksandar Stevic 9780813944036
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's ... -
Vermeer's Maps by Johannes Vermeer
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Exploring the convergence of art and science in the map renderings of one of the world's most beloved artists Marcel Proust declared View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) "the most beautiful... -
Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation by Tim Conley 9781442612983
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02James Joyce has written that 'the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.' In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a... -
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War Perry Anderson 9781804297674
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.20In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration:... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year Nick Rennison 9780857305015
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.781922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire... -
Humanism, Empire, and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural Criticism by Travis Workman
Booksplease Price: £21.82Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century-writing in the context of...