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![What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education by Maurice R. Berube 9780393330700](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2555205/2554549/9780393330700__51819.1714322541.jpg?c=1 "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education by Maurice R. Berube 9780393330700")
What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education by Maurice R. Berube 9780393330700
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.17Described as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Berube has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and... -
"They Say / I Say" by Gerald Graff 9781324070245
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £28.67Millions of students love "They Say / I Say" because it offers lively and practical advice they can use throughout their college career (and beyond). Now, students can learn how to connect their "I... -
The Sentimental Education of the Novel by Margaret Cohen
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that... -
The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction by Peter Freese
Booksplease Price: £16.02Collecting twenty essays written by distinguished scholars from the United States and Germany, "The Holodeck in the Garden" offers an informative tour of the complex interrelations between science,... -
Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition, and Campus Engagement by Heather Flaherty 9781475869729
Booksplease Price: £70.89This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to... -
Reinventing Allegory by Theresa M. Kelley 9780521432078
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.73First published in 1997, Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on Romanticism, including... -
Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman by Marielle Risse 9783030170066
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a... -
Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line by Calvin Thomas 9780252065002
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated ... -
Latin Poetry by Ludovico Ariosto
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), one of Italy's greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, to whom... -
Musical Elaborations by Edward Said 9780231073196
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno,... -
Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden: A Discussion with Rene Girard at Esprit (1973) by Rene Girard
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.01Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between RenE Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in mimetic theory. Organized... -
Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique by Nathan Brown
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 2 by Henry James 9781496201188
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's committee on scholarly editions This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883 includes 178 letters, 98 of... -
"They Say / I Say" by Gerald Graff 9781324070030
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.99The essential little book that students love for demystifying academic writing, reading, and research Millions of students love "They Say / I Say" because it offers lively and practical advice they... -
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics... -
England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English... -
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images by Sara Blair 9780691202877
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible... -
Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature and Society by Dov-Ber Kerler 9780761990246
Booksplease Price: £102.21This work provides an introduction to some of the important researchers, issues, and methodological and stylistic approaches in Yiddish and Jewish studies.About the AuthorUniversity of... -
Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature and Society by Dov-Ber Kerler 9780761990253
Booksplease Price: £43.33This work provides an introduction to some of the important researchers, issues, and methodological and stylistic approaches in Yiddish and Jewish studies .About the AuthorUniversity of... -
Anorexia and Mimetic Desire by René Girard 9781611860870
Booksplease Price: £25.05Rene Girard shows that all desires are contagious-and the desire to be thin is no exception. In this compelling new book, Girard ties the anorexia epidemic to what he calls mimetic desire: a desire... -
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £53.19Shadows on the Rock, written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her "Catholic" historical novels and reflects her fascination with finding a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh 9781108722209
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics... -
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 9780803264304
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental... -
Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition, and Campus Engagement by Heather Flaherty 9781475869736
Booksplease Price: £27.58This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to... -
England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng 9781644532416
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.45England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English... -
Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime by Molly Slavin 9780813949567
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism... -
Disability and World Language Learning: Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners by Sally Scott 9781475837049
Booksplease Price: £56.13The release of a report by the Modern Language Association, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," focused renewed attention on college foreign... -
Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime by Molly Slavin 9780813949574
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism... -
John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes by Hermann W. Haller 9781442645806
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £81.34A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was... -
Professing Literature: An Institutional History by Gerald Graff
Booksplease Price: £28.55Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, "Professing Literature" unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know... -
Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces: The Early United States through Lens of Travel by Jeffrey Hotz 9781138878402
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and... -
David Mamet in Conversation by Leslie Kane 9780472067640
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.34Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and Oleanna have enjoyed popular and... -
One of Ours by Willa Cather 9780803214316
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.87Although the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of... -
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic by Samantha Pinto 9780814759486
Booksplease Price: £90.57Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature In this comparative study of contemporary Black... -
My Antonia by Willa Cather 9780803214682
Booksplease Price: £71.81Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My Antonia secured Willa Cather's place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in... -
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff 9780393311136
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.45Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture... -
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan 9780231171694
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062714
Booksplease Price: £65.44A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases... -
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto 9780231211529
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23Honorable Mention, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, Modern Language AssociationWhen East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and... -
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780198122272
Booksplease Price: £42.96Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful...