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Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe by Barry McCrea 9780300185157
Booksplease Price: €59.04In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars-such as French patois,... -
Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas Andrew Gibson 9780415198967
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and... -
Les Chimeres by Gerard de Nerval 9781848614031
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimeres, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate... -
Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel by Pericles Lewis 9780521856508
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €106.73The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods... -
Venice Stories Jonathan Keates 9781841596259
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.60The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's... -
Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude by Adriana Cavarero
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.66In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination... -
Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 by Daniel Karlin
Booksplease Price: €49.80This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it... -
Transforming Student Travel: A Resource Guide for Educators by Faye Brenner 9781475820690
Booksplease Price: €85.14Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, "The real... -
Experimental Fiction: An Introduction for Readers and Writers by Julie Armstrong 9781441189080
Booksplease Price: €134.60Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary... -
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Dora Zhang 9780226722498
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.37The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780241014806
RRP: €28.50Booksplease Price: €18.45Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed... -
The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath by Robert B. Pippin 9780521848589
RRP: €110.67Booksplease Price: €100.76The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free,... -
The Proustian Mind Anna Elsner 9781032385143
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €51.22When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?’ Throughout his famous... -
France and Ireland: Notes and Narratives by Una Hunt 9783034319140
RRP: €58.67Booksplease Price: €52.91The rich association between Ireland and France is embodied in music, art and creative writing from both countries and this collection provides a tantalising selection of these interweaving... -
Little Castles of Bohemia: Prose and Poetry Gerard de Nerval 9781962728089
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.84Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval's autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, Andre Breton and... -
The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.02The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free,... -
Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.36Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most... -
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality by Jonathan Evans
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.18The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a... -
Sociability and Society: Literature and the Symposium by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer
RRP: €96.39Booksplease Price: €55.75Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem... -
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller 9780393328639
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €13.70Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the... -
Sociability and Society: Literature and the Symposium by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer 9781503634848
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem... -
The Cambridge Companion to Proust by Richard Bales 9780521669610
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.26The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27). The specially... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.89The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackLike his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities... -
The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €11.66A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence... -
The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry by Muhsin J. al-Musawi 9781108465557
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.63The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of... -
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The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310761 [USED COPY]
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €1.23In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial by Rex Ferguson 9781107012974
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €106.73The realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century. Each places a premium on the author's or trial lawyer's ability to reconstruct reality, reflecting... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136730
Booksplease Price: €31.81Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
The End of the Story Lydia Davis 9780241205457
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136723
Booksplease Price: €116.08Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €72.04Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume: examines canonical... -
Camille Henrot: Milkyways Camille Henrot 9783775755344
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €17.64Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-making and life. Each chapter delivers a cosmos of... -
Proust, Beckett, and Narration by James H. Reid 9780521828475
RRP: €72.59Booksplease Price: €66.68This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the twentieth century's most important writers of prose. Using a combination of theoretical analysis and close readings of... -
Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France by John Baxter
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.98"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance... -
Martha Bibescu Queen of the Belle Époque: A Previously Unknown Portrait of Domenico Rupolo by Elena Lago 9788833672694
Booksplease Price: €18.75Martha Bibescu (Bucharest, 1886 - Paris, 1973) was one of the greatest and most representative protagonists of the extraordinary world of the Belle Epoque, of which Paris, which became her adopted... -
Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning by Aleksandar Stevic 9780813944029
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €58.63A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great... -
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A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "Petersburg by Leonid Livak 9780299319304
Booksplease Price: €77.34Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's... -
What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Professor Michael Lucey
Booksplease Price: €37.33Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental...