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The Therapeutic Imagination: Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138789494
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while... -
Cheri by Colette
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the... -
The Three Musketeers: Vintage Classics French Series by Alexandre Dumas 9781784878429
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49All for one, and one for all!The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to... -
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear,... -
Suite Francaise: Vintage Classics French Series by Irène Némirovsky 9781784878412
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Irene sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living... -
Cheri: Vintage Classics French Series by Colette 9781784878436
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the... -
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought: Twentieth-Century Central Europe and American Migration by Bronislava Volkova
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central... -
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78______________ 'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund... -
Introduction to Proust: His Life, His Circle and His Work by Derrick Leon
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book, first published in 1940, provides an introduction to the life and work of the French novelist, critic, and essayist Marcel Proust, who is considered by many to be one of the greatest... -
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time by Roger Shattuck 9780393321807
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for... -
Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois by Catherine Crimp
Booksplease Price: £83.34This book explores what Louise Bourgeois, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust show us, through representations of childhood, about the separate worlds that art and literature create. It discusses the... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural... -
The Absence of God in Modernist Literature by G. Erickson 9781349537631
Booksplease Price: £46.74Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's... -
Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present Simon Kemp 9781138717053
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think... and I can't stop myself from thinking." - Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to... -
Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes by Katja Haustein
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time,... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.46Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of... -
The Swann Way by Proust 9780198871521
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels... -
In Search Of Lost Times Volume 1 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for... -
The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze by Thomas Baldwin
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation. It examines the extent... -
The Absence of God in Modernist Literature by G. Erickson 9781403977588
Booksplease Price: £46.74Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's... -
Others by Joseph Hillis Miller
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich... -
The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment by Pierre Saint-Amand 9780691149271
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the... -
Dreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism and Tolerance in Zola, Barres, Lazare and Proust by Evlyn Gould 9780786472147
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army officer, spent twelve years from 1894 to 1906 in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Amidst the dramatic and shifting revelations of... -
Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barres and Maurras by Michael Curtis 9780691626222
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55This volume is a comparative study of the political thought of three writers who, between 1885 and 1914, were leaders in the counterrevolutionary movement in France. Maurice Barres was a... -
Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz by James A. Boon
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book... -
In the City a Mirror Wandering by Daisy Rockwell 9780143425991
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.19'Magnificent . . . Ashk writes with a clear hand and is served well by Daisy Rockwell as she recreates a compelling narrative'- Dawn Unfolding over the course of a single day, Ashk's sweeping sequel... -
Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens by John Plotz 9780691159461
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at... -
Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens by John Plotz 9780691259277
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and artWhen you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this... -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1: Text by Dante 9780691018966
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.10Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. ... -
The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature by Francis-Noel Thomas 9780691609195
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent... -
Enigmas of Identity by Peter Brooks 9780691159539
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.45"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we... -
Enigmas of Identity by Peter Brooks
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.60"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we... -
Mapping Literary Modernism by Ricardo J. Quinones 9780691611938
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the... -
Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination by Michel Benamou 9780691619804
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic tradition. Mr. Benamou has now collected these essays in one volume,... -
Reims on Fire - War and Reconciliation between France and Germany Thomas W. Gaehtgens 9781606065709
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.60As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The... -
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write Alex Johnson 9780711258013
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £10.93Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is,... -
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791048
Booksplease Price: £11.78Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and... -
Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner by Jo Alyson Parker 9781349539321
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain... -
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom 9780063452046
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly... -
God's Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction by W. J. Keith 9781927428474
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist,...