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Post-imperial Literature: Translatio imperii in Kafka and Coetzee by Vladimir Biti 9783110737288
RRP: $244.73Booksplease Price: $199.31This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the... -
Post-imperial Literature: Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee by Vladimir Biti 9783111539737
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.97This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the... -
Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane 9781916751378
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Five of the six stories in Landscape with Landscape trace a suburban journey in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy,... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.84An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer,... -
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43There is only one way in and there is only one way out: the river. One stifling afternoon, a mysterious supply boat docks at a research station deep in the jungle. To Dr Forle and his team of... -
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459461
Booksplease Price: $65.19A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.Sam Durrant's powerfully original book... -
The Persistence of Memory: A Novel by Tony Eprile 9780393327229
Booksplease Price: $36.45In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's... -
Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English by Bianca Del Villano 9783898217149
Booksplease Price: $52.30Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in con-temporary Anglophone novels - Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986), Vivienne... -
J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form by Kai Wiegandt 9783030293086
RRP: $155.98Booksplease Price: $147.81"Kai Wiegandt's study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee's revision of our core ideas of the human-not least the human sense of uniqueness that we... -
Pity the Beast by Robin McLean
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.87Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean's Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a... -
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship by Alice A. Kuzniar
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637875
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice by Tzachi Zamir
Booksplease Price: $117.16In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts. Throughout the book, Zamir uses the theme of justice as a... -
Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope by Carmel Schrire 9780813921297
Booksplease Price: $36.23This volume interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution and science and romance, to show how we create the past and understand the present. It... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel by F. Abiola Irele 9780521671682
Booksplease Price: $57.64Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted... -
Grimmish by Michael Winkler 9781913512316
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. He rarely won a fight, but in the early decades of the twentieth century Grim... -
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz 9781439922217
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72Characters with disabilities are often marginalized in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai,... -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: $115.05Booksplease Price: $107.23J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European... -
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth by Joseph Roth 9780393323795
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.06Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951621
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $144.83A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su 9781107006775
Booksplease Price: $176.61Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws... -
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory Lorna Burns 9781032626635
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Engagements 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... -
Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories by Mohamed Makhzangi 9780815611486
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from... -
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice by Tzachi Zamir 9781032652757
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $45.90In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts. Throughout the book, Zamir uses the theme of justice as a... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951638
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
Reading Coetzee by Elizabeth MacFarlane 9789042037014
Booksplease Price: $129.79Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637783
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $99.53Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature by Ben Etherington
Booksplease Price: $51.89The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts... -
The Islander: A Biography of Halldor Laxness by Halldor Gudmundsson 9781529433739
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.32"An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life" Independent"A thoroughly researched biography" New York Review of Books"Provides readers of English with a perfect... -
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace by Professor or Dr. Alice Brittan 9781501383571
Booksplease Price: $178.21Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical history of the gift and tells the... -
Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years by Robert P. Marzec 9781421400181
RRP: $128.70Booksplease Price: $94.46Internationally recognized for its superior scholarship, Modern Fiction Studies was one of the first journals to publish articles on postcolonial studies. Since postcolonialism's inception, scholars... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin 9781839761652
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings,... -
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling Mary Kinzie 9780226437361
Booksplease Price: $59.34The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena... -
Robert Walser: A Companion by Samuel Frederick 9780810137127
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee, and an increasing number... -
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer 9781529925548
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. 'The book that had the most impact on me' JANE GOODALL'Probably the single most... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 by Dominic Head
Booksplease Price: $73.01In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the... -
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling by Mary Kinzie 9780226437354
RRP: $157.95Booksplease Price: $153.15The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena... -
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The... -
Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens by Shelley Saguaro 9781138258785
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.26Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider... -
Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body by Ralph Acampora 9780822963233
RRP: $87.65Booksplease Price: $82.00Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal...