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Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €120.11A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original... -
Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings Paula Blank 9780415756846
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects of early modern... -
John Donne, Undone by Thomas Docherty
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €53.16Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of... -
A History of the French Language by Peter Rickard
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised... -
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation by Sarah Glendon Lyons
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €100.06This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the... -
Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism by Lisa Goldfarb
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law... -
Sixteenth-Century French Poetry by Victor E Graham
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97In this anthology an effort has been made to include representative selections from the most significant sixteenth-century French poets. With the exception if a few longer works (mainly those of... -
Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems by Karl Kirchwey 9780810136274
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.24Through six earlier books Karl Kirchwey has rewarded readers with poems of great musicality, visual richness, and historical resonance. Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems represents a culmination of his... -
Hidden Designs: The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature by Jonathan Crewe 9781138779280
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.83This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the 'new historicism' and post-structuralism,... -
'The Contending Kingdoms': France and England 1420-1700 Glenn Richardson 9781138376106
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88The kingdoms of France and England were for many centuries military, economic, cultural and colonial rivals. This is particularly true of the early modern period which witnessed the rise of French... -
The Bilingual Text: History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation Jan Walsh Hokenson 9781900650939
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between different sign systems and audiences... -
Fictional Translators: Rethinking Translation through Literature by Rosemary Arrojo
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €15.28Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main cliches associated with... -
Metatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies Theo Hermans (University College London, UK) 9780367819590
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Metatranslation presents a selection of 14 key essays by leading theorist, Theo Hermans, covering a span of almost 40 years. The essays trace Hermans' work and demonstrate how translation studies has... -
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands by Todd M. Richardson
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands examines the later images by Bruegel in the context of two contemporary discourses - art theoretical and convivial. The... -
Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures Zita Eva Rohr (The University of New South Wales, Australia) 9780367903442
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Significant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and nuance with regard to aspects of... -
Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages by Norman R. Shapiro
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.80The French have long had a love affair with the cat, expressed through centuries of poetry portraying the animal's wit and wonder. Norman R. Shapiro lionizes the feline's limitless allure in this... -
Pre-histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method by Anna Holland
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Pre-histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical MethodAbout the AuthorAnna HollandBook InformationISBN 9780367602963Author Anna HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
WOLSEY by Glenn Richardson
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €46.02Through a thematic and broadly chronological approach, Wolsey offers a fascinating insight into the life and legacy of a man who was responsible for building Henry VIII's reputation as England's most... -
Latin Pastoral Poetry Andrea Navagero 9780674298378
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.65A definitive edition of Renaissance pastoral poems by two master poets, including works that inspired Raphael and Shakespeare.Andrea Navagero (1483-1529) was among the principal poets of the Venetian... -
Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought by Eric MacPhail 9780271092348
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.90This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical... -
Translation and Identity Michael Cronin 9780415364652
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the... -
French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I & Henry II by R. J. Knecht
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €49.58First published in 1984, Professor Knecht's study quickly established itself as the best short account of the period. The reigns of Francis I and Henry II, spanning the first half of the sixteenth... -
Translation in Systems: Descriptive and Systemic Approaches Explained Theo Hermans 9780815377054
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.63A critically acclaimed foundational text, Translation in Systems offers a comprehensive guide to the descriptive and systemic approaches which have shaped translation studies. Theo Hermans considers... -
The English Experience in France c.1450-1558: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: War, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange by David Grummitt
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €132.51This title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a conference held at the Public Record Office in November 1999. The purpose of the book is to... -
Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory by Thomas V. Cohen
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.This book draws the reader deep... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.84From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume... -
Ezra Pound: Translations by Ezra Pound 9780811201643
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €23.75Ezra Pound is destined to rank as one of the great translators of all time. Ranging through many languages, he chose for translation writers whose work marked a significant turning point in the... -
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser 9780393927856
Booksplease Price: €24.99This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully... -
The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Steven Monte 9781474481489
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €29.71Explores the intricate hidden organisation of Shakespeare's Sonnets Discusses Shakespeare as a writer with career aspirations as a poet Analyses individual poems, especially anthology pieces and... -
Latin Poetry Across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition Stephen Hinds 9781108835800
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.24Latin poetry is defined by its relationships with poetry in other languages. It was originally constituted by its relation to Greek, and in later times has been constituted by its relation to the... -
Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol by Dora Panofsky 9780691625362
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.06Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and... -
Entre-Textes: Dialogues litteraires et culturels by Oana Panaite
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Entre-Textes introduces advanced students of French to the richness of the Francophone world through literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.The course anthology is divided into fourteen... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.94An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France by Louisa MacKenzie 9781442642393
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €52.49The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the PlEiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.17An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
Adapting Translation for the Stage Geraldine Brodie 9780367736095
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those... -
A C. H. Sisson Reader by Charlie Louth 9781847772657
Booksplease Price: €29.51The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and... -
Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality by Syrithe Pugh 9781526152671
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so. This volume seeks to... -
Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 9781107110281
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €101.46Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orleans, Ronsard, and... -
Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne by Ullrich Langer 9781107526990
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €36.12Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch's poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d'Orleans, Ronsard, and...