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Post-colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary by John Thieme 9780340761748
Booksplease Price: £34.84This glossary offers an interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts, practices and cultural products that have come to be known as 'postcolonial'. In addition to providing an essential... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures by Andres Hallengren 9789812560742
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition,... -
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds by Lorna Hardwick 9780199591329
Booksplease Price: £58.61Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for... -
Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery 9780521117098
Booksplease Price: £44.32Vision is a recurring obsession in the work of twentieth-century Caribbean writers. This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean as they... -
Gendered Identity and the Lost Female: Hybridity as a Partial Experience in the Anglophone Caribbean Performances by Shrabani Basu 9789811949692
Booksplease Price: £92.13This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective.In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean... -
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature Alison Donnell (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9780415120494
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically... -
Nobel Writers on Writing Ottar G. Draugsvold 9780786466092
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often... -
After the Rain: New and selected poems 1991 - 2016 by George Gunn 9781849211710
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection from his previously published poems plus eleven new ones continues to reveal an imagination that, while... -
Plays for Today: With CSEC Study Guide Kenneth Jaikaransingh 9781510414303
Booksplease Price: £16.93Ti-Jean and his Brothers was Derek Walcott's first venture into musical plays and is still his most popular work. A lilting St Lucian folk-tale, it tells the story of a poor family who dwell on the... -
Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery 9780521872133
Booksplease Price: £99.73Vision is a recurring obsession in the work of twentieth-century Caribbean writers. This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean as they... -
On Purpose: Poems by Nick Laird 9780393338263
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £13.17On Purpose examines the often brutal arena of human relations. Informed by both wit and a melancholic undercurrent, the book thoughtfully provokes concepts of happiness and sadness, of warring and... -
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul by Feroza F. Jussawalla 9780878059461
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Intense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won nearly every major British writing award, including the prestigious Booker Award (in 1971 for In a Free State) and in 1990 was... -
Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets by Irena Grudzinska Gross 9780300149371
Booksplease Price: £58.47This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and... -
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory Lorna Burns 9781032626635
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and themes that have shaped the evolution of postcolonial literary studies... -
New Collected Poems by Les Murray 9781857546231
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. Subhuman Redneck Poems, awarded the 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), Translations from the Natural World (1993) and Conscious... -
An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre by Brian Crow 9780521567220
Booksplease Price: £35.47In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the... -
An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre by Brian Crow 9780521495295
Booksplease Price: £94.51In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the... -
The Verse Novel in Young Adult Literature by Brenna Friesner 9781442272446
Booksplease Price: £76.51Throughout history, the verse novel has persisted as a modest but noteworthy literary subgenre, from classic works like Eugene Onegin to contemporary volumes by Vikram Seth, Dorothy Porter, and Derek... -
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry Neil Roberts 9780582233508
Booksplease Price: £47.29Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences... -
Beryl McBurnie by Judy Raymond 9789766407001
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.91Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and... -
Fugitive Tilts by Ishion Hutchinson 9781915743954
Booksplease Price: £20.55In Fugitive Tilts, Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic by Catherine Bates
Booksplease Price: £29.86Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form... -
Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by Alison Rudd 9780708322116
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.78This book explores Postcolonial Gothic in four different locations, providing a comparative analysis of the way the Gothic has provided postcolonial writers with a means to express the anxieties of... -
West Indian Poetry - An Anthology for Schools by Cecil Gray 9780582766372
Booksplease Price: £24.24A thematic collection of over 150 poems by 67 different poets from around the Caribbean. Poet included in West Indian Poetry are: Derek Walcott, John Agard, Edward Braithwaite, Dennis Scott, Lorna... -
Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form by David Caplan 9780195313253
Booksplease Price: £43.09Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic by Catherine Bates 9780521880947
Booksplease Price: £83.00Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form... -
Selected Poems by Lorna Goodison 9780472064939
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59A selection of poems by Lorna Goodison, who in 2017 was named Poet Laureate of Jamaica.About the AuthorLorna Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She currently teaches at the University of... -
Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics by Seanna Sumalee Oakley 9789042034082
Booksplease Price: £108.86While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of... -
Post-colonial Con-texts: Writing Back to the Canon by John Thieme 9780826454669
Booksplease Price: £33.49In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as... -
Transnational Literature: The Basics by Paul Jay
Booksplease Price: £20.99Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which... -
World Theories of Theatre Glenn A. Odom 9781138822566
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre. Identifying major debates in theatrical... -
Beryl McBurnie by Judy Raymond 9789766406783
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and... -
Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet 9780299176945
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to... -
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps by Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann 9781501399503
Booksplease Price: £95.49Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence – to... -
Selected Poems: 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book ReviewSelf-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century... -
A Room on the Hill by Garth St. Omer 9781845230937
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05John Lestrade is attempting to come to terms with the suicide of his friend Stephen, and his guilt that he did nothing to prevent it. Escape to a room on the hill is an act of internal exile, an... -
Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms by Anita Patterson 9780521349567
Booksplease Price: £46.29Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this... -
Modern Tragedy by James Moran 9781350139787
Booksplease Price: £47.28What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different...