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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer Anne Longmuir 9781032112091
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning,... -
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming 'something very... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang 9781421440842
RRP: £75.50Booksplease Price: £54.21What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about... -
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts by Professor Stephen Mulhall 9780199661787
Booksplease Price: £95.20Stephen 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... -
The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings by Antonio Lobo Antunes 9780393061987
Booksplease Price: £35.91Antonio Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise... -
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited by Minna Johanna Niemi 9780367766658
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period.Covering the authors Ayi Kwei Armah,... -
Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years by Robert P. Marzec 9781421400198
Booksplease Price: £43.08Internationally 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... -
The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay 9783319706658
Booksplease Price: £79.75This book argues that there are deep connections between 'poetic' thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore,... -
Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media Masha Salazkina 9781603296908
Booksplease Price: £32.25Essays 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... -
Perspectives on Barry Hannah by Martyn Bone 9781604735048
Booksplease Price: £31.89Perspectives on Barry Hannah is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the... -
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man by Kevin Newmark
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88What is it about irony-as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity-that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143105138
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy... -
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man by Kevin Newmark 9780823240128
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £74.37What is it about irony-as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity-that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds... -
Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel by Leonid G. Tsypkin 9780811215480
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving." A... -
Pets Erica Fudge 9781844651566
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83'When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?' - Michel de Montaigne. Why do we live with pets? Is there something more to our relationship with them than... -
Light Everywhere: Selected Poems Cees Nooteboom 9781803094465
Booksplease Price: £15.29A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books. Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel... -
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry 9780571218011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWOne of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of... -
History, Literature, Critical Theory by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and... -
The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry by Koen Vermeir 9789400721012
Booksplease Price: £93.92Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume... -
Postcolonialism After World Literature: Relation, Equality, Dissent by Dr Lorna Burns 9781350211483
Booksplease Price: £35.46Postcolonial studies took shape in response to the nationalist and decolonization movements of the twentieth century. Today, a resurgent interest in world literature reflects an increased awareness... -
Literature and the Rise of the Interview by Rebecca Roach
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.71Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and... -
Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s by Prof Dr. Ralf Hertel 9789042018648
Booksplease Price: £72.07Fiction is fascinating. All it provides us with is black letters on white pages, yet while we read we do not have the impression that we are merely perceiving abstract characters. Instead, we see the... -
The Fifth Principle by Paul Williams
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.78The Fifth Principle is the first of three books that take as their subject aspects of the author's life. This book reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age; the second book will... -
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates 9780062564528
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, now in paperback. ... -
The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry by Koen Vermeir 9789401785280
Booksplease Price: £92.08Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume... -
Programming Literature Rebecca Roach 9780198976561
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning... -
Sex, Nation, and Transatlantic Literatures Agata Szczeszak-Brewer 9781350323339
Booksplease Price: £85.65Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.Staging a vital... -
At the Margin of One/Many Languages: Essays on South African Literature by Helen Chambers 9783034318648
RRP: £46.10Booksplease Price: £41.70The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa... -
J.M. Coetzee & the Life of Writing: Face to face with time by David Attwell 9780198746331
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.39J.M. Coetzee is one of the world's most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the adjectives pile up but the heart of the fiction remains elusive. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature?If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about... -
The Philosopher's Dog Raimond Gaita 9781138687943
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family... -
The Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good by David B. Parker
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £38.72All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the... -
The Silver Moth: Sequel to The Little White Horse by Carol Lefevre
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Maria Merryweather returns to Moonacre Manor with her granddaughter Rose to escape the horrors of the first world war bombings in London. The magical qualities of Moonacre Valley are rediscovered... -
Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past by Amir Eshel 9780226924953
Booksplease Price: £48.40When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a... -
Reading Capitalist Realism by Alison Shonkwiler 9781609382346
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £35.84As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalisation, neoliberalism, and financialisation, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new... -
The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by... -
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an... -
What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring... -
Colonization Violence & Narration: In White South African Writing by Rosemary Jane Jolly 9780821411315
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be represented without sensationalistic effects, or,... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction by David P. Rando 9781350356122
Booksplease Price: £90.57Exploring 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...