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The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected 1979-1991 Allen Grossman 9780811211772
Booksplease Price: £16.09In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors... -
Jam Tree Gully: Poems John Kinsella (Cambridge University) 9780393341409
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.03In this daring new collection, Australia's preeminent environmental poet confronts the legacy of Thoreau's Walden. With Walden as his inspiration, John Kinsella moved with his family back to rural... -
Genres in Discourse by Tzvetan Todorov 9780521342490
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and... -
Genres in Discourse by Tzvetan Todorov 9780521349994
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and... -
Cormac McCarthy: New Directions by James D. Lilley
Booksplease Price: £44.63Even before Harold Bloom designated Blood Meridian as the Great American Novel, Cormac McCarthy had attracted unprecedented attention as a novelist who is both serious and successful, a rare... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780141396477
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival... -
A Coast of Trees by A. R. Ammons 9780393324105
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.16Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable... -
Literary Theories in Praxis by Shirley F. Staton 9780812212341
Booksplease Price: £34.10Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780300104530
Booksplease Price: £6.75The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist "Burton Raffel is surely one of the profession's top linguists and... -
A Life in a Poem: Memoirs of a Rebellious Bible Translator by David Rosenberg 9781848616646
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.95In 1990, the international bestseller, The Book of J (1990), co-authored by David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom (Grove; Faber in the U.K.) was followed by several books of poetry and prose (A Poet's... -
Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature Katherine Ebury 9781032578279
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic... -
Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis Jeffrey Berman 9781350471832
Booksplease Price: £90.57Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book... -
Postmortem Postmodernists: The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative by Laura E. Savu 9781611473919
Booksplease Price: £111.35This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues-authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism-that arise in reading such works from a contemporary... -
Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition by John Milton 9781554810970
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.08John Milton's epic story of cosmic rebellion and the beginning of human history has long been considered one of the greatest and most gripping narratives ever written in English. Yet its intensely... -
Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake
Booksplease Price: £24.93In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is... -
Keats and Hellenism: An Essay by Martin Aske 9780521604192
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book proposes a fresh and original interpretation of Keats' use of classical mythology in his verse. Dr Aske argues that classical antiquity appears to Keats as a supreme fiction, authoritative... -
Modern Baptists: A Novel by James Wilcox 9780807131664
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.68Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula... -
Exorcising Translation: Towards an Intercivilizational Turn by Douglas Robinson 9781501326059
Booksplease Price: £102.21Exorcising Translation, a new volume in Bloomsbury's Literatures, Cultures, Translation series, makes critical contributions to translation as well as to comparative and postcolonial literary studies... -
The Ornament Of The World by Maria Rosa Menocal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56This classic bestseller - the inspiration for the PBS series - is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived... -
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought by Zachary Braiterman 9780691059419
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.51The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author... -
Against the Protestant Gnostics by Philip J. Lee 9780195084368
Booksplease Price: £58.91Gnosticism is a term covering a group of heresies that for a time had great influence within the early church, including: belief in the existence of a hidden or secret revelation available only to... -
Machado de Assis: A Literary Life K. David Jackson 9780300180824
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £48.54Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his... -
The Best of "Witness" 1987-2004: Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction by Peter Stine 9780870138294
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.72A special issue featuring the "best of writers": Witness is a literary magazine that, over the course of its twenty years of publication, has earned a reputation as "the writer's literary journal."... -
Canon Controversies in Political Thought: Two Theories of Influence by Dominic Welburn 9783030413606
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the meaning of 'influence', which has played a central role in the formation of the canon, or tradition, of Western political thought. Via a critical overview of the relative... -
The Breast by Philip Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of... -
Transferring to America: Jewish Interpretations of American Dreams by Rael Meyerowitz 9780791426081
Booksplease Price: £27.36This book primarily concerns the work of three prominent literary scholars, Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch, treating them as second-generation immigrant Jewish Americans. With... -
The American Novel of War: A Critical Analysis and Classification System by Wallis R. Sanborn 9780786438631
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19In song, verse, narrative, and dramatic form, war literature has existed for nearly all of recorded history. Accounts of war continue to occupy American bestseller lists and the stacks of American... -
Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art: The Anglophone World by Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work... -
Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets by David R. Slavitt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.39David R. Slavitt does not believe in literary criticism so much as in 'remarks', and in this witty and unusual work, he remarks on the life of the poet: how it was - and how it is - to be an American... -
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema by Daniel Ross Goodman 9780761872238
Booksplease Price: £33.49Why do we watch movies? If we read in search of more life, as Harold Bloom is fond of saying, then we watch movies, this book proposes, in search of wonder. We watch movies in search of awe-inspiring... -
Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures Sheila A. Spector 9781032925684
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The twelve essays in Romanticism/Judaica explore the four major cultural strands that have converged from the French Revolution to the present. The first section, Nationalism and Diasporeanism,... -
Guest of a Sinner: A Novel by James Wilcox 9780807129692
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.65It is 22 cats that drive the dazzlingly handsome Eric Thorsen to distraction and into the apartment - if not immediately the arms - of Wanda Skopinski, the rather mousy woman he meets at church when... -
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to... -
This Composite Voice: The Role of W.B. Yeats in James Merrill's Poetry by Mark A. Bauer 9781138998278
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This Composite Voice is the first in depth examination of the extensive history and... -
Walt Whitman Bathing: POEMS by David Wagoner 9780252065705
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91When David Wagoner's last collection, Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems, was published, Harold Bloom noted that Wagoner's "study of American nostalgias is as eloquent and moving as that of... -
The Fountain of Youth John Kinsella 9781628976519
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Strange things are happening in a small Australian town as the local theatre troupe prepares for their next performance. The Fountain of Youth is another riotous and rollicking novel from John... -
Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems Willis Barnstone 9781784100148
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New... -
Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold BloomPrince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish... -
The Literary Freud Perry Meisel 9780415981453
Booksplease Price: £50.71In this book, Perry Meisel argues that Freud's texts are properly literary, and casts Freud as both literary theoretician and practitioner. Here, after an introductory reception history of Freud as... -
Richard Wright: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Commentary, 1983-2003 by Keneth Kinnamon 9780786421350
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £56.67African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his...