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Proust and Joyce in Dialogue by Sarah Tribout-Joseph 9781905981946
RRP: $193.18Booksplease Price: $169.03This book discusses the interrelation between Francoise's malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephen's interior monologue in Joyce. It provides interconnected close readings of... -
Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel: No. 10: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel by Ruth Glynn
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $70.83In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing 'phenomena'. The success of the genre is closely related to a... -
The Fantastic in France and Russia in the 19th Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation by Claire Whitehead 9781904350569
Booksplease Price: $165.44This book attempts to reveal how the fantastic operates and how it produces its effects, and analyses the devices and techniques used by the fantastic in order to produce hesitation in the mind of... -
Excavations at Dryslwyn Castle 1980-1995 by Christopher Caple
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $113.59Excavations at Dryslwyn between 1980 and 1995 uncovered a masonry castle, founded in the late 1220s by Rhys Gryg for his son Maredudd ap Rhys, the first Lord of Dryslwyn. The first castle was a... -
Baby Jesus by Priscar Manei 9780956578068
RRP: $20.77Booksplease Price: $19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956578068Author Priscar ManeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint ManeiPublisher... -
Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative by Rita Wilson
Booksplease Price: $80.41Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women. The novel becomes the space for... -
Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society by Fabian Alfie
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63This work examines the ways in which the culture and society of the Middle Ages impacted on the works of the Sienese poet, Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312). It analyzes how Angiolieri's poetry... -
Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales C.1350-1525 by Sebastian Coxon
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.01This book explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of short comic tales that flourished in late medieval Germany and that provided bawdy entertainment for larger... -
Excavations at Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire 1987-1994 by William D. Klemperer
Booksplease Price: $112.54Hulton Abbey was a minor Cistercian monastery in north Staffordshire (England), founded in 1219 and finally dissolved in 1538. This is the final report on the archaeological excavations undertaken... -
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII Maria Hayward 9781905981410
RRP: $151.18Booksplease Price: $138.37This book focuses on the dress of one royal individual, Henry and his physique, portraiture, personal wardrobe, jewellery, regalia and ceremonial robes. It is the only other substantial record of the... -
English Houses 1300-1800: Vernacular Architecture, Social Life by Matthew H. Johnson 9780582772182
Booksplease Price: $86.37Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them. In this engaging book,... -
Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia (1870s-1917): Rituals of Academic Institutionalism by Andy Byford
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $116.09This book analyses a representative selection of discursive and ceremonial practices in which one finds the most evident articulation of common 'principles of vision and division' symbolically... -
Goethe 2000: Intercultural Readings of His Work by Paul Bishop
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was celebrated in Scotland by a colloquium held under the auspices of the University of Glasgow's Centre for... -
Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre by Lisa Sampson
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.01This book traces the development of pastoral drama as it evolved over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy. It considers how writers of pastoral drama responded to social, cultural and...