Filter By
Books (83)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global... -
Dante Erich Auerbach 9781590172193
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172193Author Erich AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach by Seth Lerer 9780804725453
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $96.66A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.72More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration... -
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The Humanist Tradition in Peril by Avihu Zakai 9783319822273
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $194.75This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $79.42In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores... -
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The Humanist Tradition in Peril by Avihu Zakai 9783319409573
Booksplease Price: $198.49This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual... -
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond by Jon Nixon 9781032258119
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of... -
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics by J. Daniel Elam 9780823289790
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $105.38World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century... -
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics by J. Daniel Elam
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $43.76World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century... -
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form by Christopher Laing Hill 9780810142145
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory... -
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.63Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar ... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.42Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly... -
The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $187.49The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on... -
Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity by David Dawson 9780520226302
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $101.89This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old... -
Virginia Woolf by Rachel Bowlby 9780582061514
Booksplease Price: $107.43Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing,... -
The Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel 9780691196831
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch 9780691134994
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.01From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.72From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber by Andrew H. Plaks 9780691617404
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $71.43Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study,... -
Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib by E. Khayyat 9781498585859
Booksplease Price: $76.81Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib engages Erich Auerbach's Istanbul career and his pioneering works of comparative literature in a new light. It... -
Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib by E. Khayyat 9781498585835
Booksplease Price: $219.24Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib engages Erich Auerbach's Istanbul career and his pioneering works of comparative literature in a new light. It... -
Literatures of the World: Beyond World Literature by Ottmar Ette 9789004395541
Booksplease Price: $199.31Beginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories... -
Theories of Mimesis by Arne Melberg
Booksplease Price: $62.63Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study... -
Realism in European Literature: Essays in Honour of J. P. Stern by Nicholas Boyle 9780521155335
Booksplease Price: $62.63The essays in this collection, which was originally published in 1986, address fundamental issues of literary realism that have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern, the distinguished writer on... -
Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 9780195169386
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $64.35This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez... -
Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II by Adam J. Goldwyn 9783031114724
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $71.06This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel... -
The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History by Joseph Mali 9781107670839
Booksplease Price: $62.63In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874), the Irish... -
Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton by Christopher Warley 9781107052925
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.97Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley... -
Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach by David Weinstein
RRP: $181.33Booksplease Price: $165.09Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship,... -
Auerbach's Renaissance: Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante by Chris Warley 9781009545495
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.02Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is among the most admired works of literary criticism of the last hundred years. Amidst the horrors of the Second World War, Auerbach's prodigious learning managed – almost... -
Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach by David Weinstein 9781108704984
Booksplease Price: $62.63Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship,... -
Figural Philology by Adi Efal 9781350067288
Booksplease Price: $73.73Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated... -
Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton by Christopher Warley 9781107681125
Booksplease Price: $62.63Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley... -
Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 9780195169379
Booksplease Price: $221.21This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez... -
Names Of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge by Jacques Ranciere 9780816624034
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53History in our day is still a story, and yet one from which we expect to tell the truth - not just the facts, the names and events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can... -
Pasolini after Dante: The 'Divine Mimesis' and the Politics of Representation by Emanuela Patti
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01What role did Dante play in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)? His unfinished and fragmented imitation of the Comedia, La Divina Mimesis, is only one outward sign of what was a sustained... -
Historical Representation by F. R. Ankersmit
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of... -
Historical Representation by F. R. Ankersmit 9780804739795
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally
Booksplease Price: $50.88Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and...