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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 by Dominic Head
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $67.45In 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: $170.10Booksplease Price: $164.93The 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... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the... -
Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian
Booksplease Price: $231.95Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges... -
The Assault Harry Mulisch 9781805221678
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist' John Updike With an introduction by Thomas Harding In the bitter final months of the Second World War, the body of a Dutch Nazi... -
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel by Joseph Conte 9781032239583
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational... -
Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian 9781108456050
Booksplease Price: $57.96Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges... -
Evolution of Desire: A Life of Rene Girard by Cynthia L Haven 9781611862836
Booksplease Price: $76.57Rene Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era - a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human... -
Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender and Cultural Identity by Irene Marques
Booksplease Price: $96.16This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the... -
Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 9780241654613
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be... -
(A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage Joanna Klass 9781803095349
Booksplease Price: $74.38Exploring the ethics of historical narratives and national identities, this anthology of Polish plays delves into the trauma of war, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Poland's post-communist reality... -
The Aeneid by Virgil
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.78Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithVirgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration... -
Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel by Sara Upstone
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.12In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational and comparative approach that challenges the tendency to engage with authors in isolation or in... -
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces by Derek Attridge
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.45What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our... -
Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel by Dr. David James 9781107022478
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging... -
Paul Celan: The Romanian Dimension by Petre Solomon 9780815636021
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Paul Celan moved to Bucharest, where he spent more than two years working as a translator at Carta Rusa publishing house. During that time he was... -
Philosophy and Animal Life by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and... -
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Granta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Shortlisted for NINE literary awards'Ross Raisin's story of how a disturbed but basically well-intentioned rural... -
The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23The Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera... -
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship by Alice A. Kuzniar 9780226102702
Booksplease Price: $42.25An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia's Dog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame... -
The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism by Alys Moody 9780198828891
Booksplease Price: $199.29Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a... -
J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture by Andrew Gibson 9780198857914
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $185.89This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa and... -
J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory by Robert Eaglestone 9781441101112
Booksplease Price: $85.66Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading... -
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature by Rebecca L. Walkowitz 9780231165952
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in... -
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.75Wearily, I take the path to the river, there in the cool to fill my being with the sounds of my sister-being, to refresh myself in the modest scents of pigeonwood and mitzeerie, to let my gaze end in... -
The Poems by Robert Walser
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.79The first complete publication of Robert Walser's poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" by J. M... -
The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University by Richard A. Holland 9780292745469
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $56.11As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first class," as mandated in the Texas Constitution. The university's faculty and... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction David P. Rando 9781350356160
Booksplease Price: $64.13Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures... -
Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939 by Joseph Roth
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $36.92At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years... -
J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 9780367231019
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the 'real' and 'fictions of the real', and while much has already been written about him, these questions need to be more fully explored... -
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode Alexandra Effe 9781032411071
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Autofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play. Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and in... -
Madness in the Woods: Representations of the Ecological Uncanny by Tina-Karen Pusse 9783631793398
RRP: $117.29Booksplease Price: $105.23Since storytelling began, narratives of getting lost in the woods or of choosing to live in the heterotopian space of the woods have remained popular and are, at the time of writing, experiencing a... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199229932
Booksplease Price: $168.53The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear... -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.56With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.57The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form by Kai Wiegandt 9783030293055
RRP: $167.98Booksplease Price: $159.18"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... -
Writing the Radical Memoir: A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach by Dr Paul Williams 9781350272200
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $117.87For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge... -
Encountering Disgrace - Reading and Teaching Coetzee`s Novel by Bill McDonald
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $63.86Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters... -
Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media Masha Salazkina 9781603296892
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our timePeople migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A... -
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts by Professor Stephen Mulhall 9780198748229
Booksplease Price: $85.22Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in...