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The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Timothy Ware
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Orthodoxy claims to be universal . . .'Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to... -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents Professor Tony Judt 9780718191412
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.95'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a... -
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister 9781405951920
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The definitive account of the rise and fall of the iconic Concorde plane from British Airways' former Chief Concorde Pilot'A remarkable story' DAILY EXPRESS'A stonking good read' FLYER_________What's... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.89A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival... -
Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America Volker M. Welter 9781606066140
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €50.10From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned... -
Literary Analysis: The Basics by Celena Kusch 9780415747097
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €109.92Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary... -
Restless Cities by Matthew Beaumont
Booksplease Price: €28.14The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities... -
God Matters by Herbert McCabe
Booksplease Price: €16.95Seldom have God matters been treated with such verve, sense, rigour and humour as in the collection of writings by Herbert McCabe. This book demonstrates the depth and clarity of his theology and... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.52James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey 9781138129993
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €131.36Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived... -
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Outside Literature by Tony Bennett 9780415010948 [USED COPY]
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €6.16Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes. Tony Bennett suggests that literature be re-defined as an institutionally defined... -
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights by Professor Miriam Allott 9780333533680
Booksplease Price: €41.02The volume's wide selection of reviews and criticism illustrates the powerful impression made by this novel from its first appearance in 1847, when even hostile readers expressed reluctant... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan 9781783607358
Booksplease Price: €108.14'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".'Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 2: Island Stories - Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: €33.43A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in... -
Dishing it Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience by Robert Appelbaum 9781861898074
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €41.92In this ground-breaking work, Robert Appelbaum travels through time, space and the annals of literature and history, asking some basic questions. What is a restaurant, for example, and what and who... -
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola by Rachel Bowlby
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this ... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
Booksplease Price: €53.24This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight... -
Saint Billie by Jeremy Reed 9781900564625
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €8.47"Saint Billie".About the AuthorJeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright'The real stuff.' James Kelman'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie ProulxJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael... -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.99Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.41John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how,... -
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a... -
How To Read Freud by Josh Cohen 9781862077638
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight... -
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.50High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music... -
Crrritic!: Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation & Various Other Noises Off in These the First & Last Days of Literary Criticism by John Schad 9781845193829
Booksplease Price: €37.06Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically... -
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek 9781844673032
Booksplease Price: €20.22Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.46A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9780141439723
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.82'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws... -
The Resources of Critique by Alex Callinicos 9780745631608
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.73Social criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.41William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and... -
How To Read Sartre Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free... -
Deconstruction After All: Reflections & Conversations by Christopher Norris by Christopher Norris
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €47.47This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas...