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Line by Line by Modern Language Association
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395393918Author Modern Language AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 219 -
Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research by D. C. Greetham
Booksplease Price: $124.56This collection of twenty-six essays, written by acknowledged experts in literary studies, surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the major research in a variety of disciplines,... -
An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry by M. A. R. Habib 9780873527972
Booksplease Price: $29.54The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles as well as a complex commentary on the experience-personal, religious, cultural, political-of the issues and... -
MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America 9781603295628
Booksplease Price: $45.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy by Helene Bilis 9781603295314
Booksplease Price: $41.60Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the grand siecle... -
The MLA Style Sheet: Revised Edition by Modern Language Association 9781607963981
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607963981Author Modern Language AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 36< -
Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot by June Schlueter 9780873525428
Booksplease Price: $40.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873525428Author June SchlueterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Approaches to Teaching Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Donald D. Kummings 9780873525381
Booksplease Price: $40.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873525381Author Donald D. KummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprin -
Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition by Christiane Donahue 9781603296007
Booksplease Price: $72.41Transnational composition is a site for engaging with difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate... -
Gabriel: An English Translation by George Sand
Booksplease Price: $29.54"An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you are."The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to... -
Monsieur Venus by Rachilde 9780873529303
Booksplease Price: $24.01When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually... -
An Introduction to Old Irish by R. P. M. Lehmann 9780873522885
Booksplease Price: $36.77This handbook was produced with the aim of providing students with an introduction to Old Irish literature as well as to the language. One of the notable Old Irish stories is used as the basic text... -
Husn u Ask by Victoria Rowe Holbrook 9780873529334
Booksplease Price: $29.54The girl Husn and the boy Ask are betrothed to each other as children. But Husn violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Ask must undergo the trials of a journey to the... -
Nihilist Girl by Natasha Kolchevska 9780873527903
Booksplease Price: $19.18First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $23.01A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature... -
Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics by Alison Weber
Booksplease Price: $40.42The writings of Teresa of Avila and the Spanish mystics, most notably John of the Cross and Luis de Leon, aroused passionate responses when they were composed. Though today's students realize that... -
Keywords;: For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c. by A Community of Inquiry 9780691181837
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.03An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution... -
Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory by Edwin Greenlaw
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97First Published in 1969. This volume consists of four papers of the late Professor Greenlaw, the first two not before published. Chapter I was read before the History of Ideas Club at The Johns... -
Frankenstein (The Norton Library) by Mary Shelley
Booksplease Price: $11.91The Norton Library edition of Frankenstein features the complete text of the first (1818) edition and Mary Shelley's preface to the third (1831) edition. An introduction by Michael Berube situates... -
After Strange Texts by Gregory S. Jay 9780817302245
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question:... -
Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 by Steven Justice 9780520206977
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $34.80In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the... -
Moby-dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville 9780810119116
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.88This edition of ""Moby-Dick"", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a... -
Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society by Deborah Brandt 9780470401347
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.80Deborah Brandt, a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award, is one of the most influential figures in literacy and education. Brandt has dedicated her career to the status of reading and writing in the... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780300085068
Booksplease Price: $20.38This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial... -
Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden: A Discussion with Rene Girard at Esprit (1973) by Rene Girard
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $18.46Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between RenE Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in mimetic theory. Organized... -
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 9780803264304
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47First published in 1923, A Lost Lady is one of Willa Cather's classic novels about life on the Great Plains. It harks back to Nebraska's early history and contrasts those days with an unsentimental... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780803264373
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired."... -
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 9780803245723
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive... -
Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree 9781911284611
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.48An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking... -
The Canadian Postmodern:: A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon 9780199001798
Booksplease Price: $18.06The postmodern novel was a surprisingly and often poorly understood phenomenon of the 1980s and 90s, in which many artists explored issues of how art represents the world. These works are... -
From the Still Empty Grave: Collected Poems 9780874172720
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.56In this masterful collection of poems, Las Vegas poet Stevens explores the complex connections between life and death, place and experience, the world of books, and the quotidian world of work, pain,... -
Reynard the Fox: A New Translation James Simpson 9780871407368
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.21James Simpson's translation of the late-middle-English version restores Reynard as part of a tradition that extends to Animal Farm. With all new illustrations, "Reynard the Fox is the animal fable's... -
Complete Poems by George Seferis 9781784106676
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.70George Seferis's Complete Poems reissued as a Carcanet Classic. George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his... -
The First Day and Other Stories by Dvora Baron 9780520085381
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Dvora Baron (1887-1956), the first modern Hebrew woman writer, was born in a small Lithuanian town in 1887. Her father, a rabbi, gave his daughter a thorough education, an extraordinary act at the... -
Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998 by Zafer Senocak
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49"Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany?" Gathered here for the first time in English translation, these essays chart a new... -
Culpability Bruce Holsinger 9781787706057
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!" Oprah Winfrey When the Cassidy-Shaws' driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
Booksplease Price: $47.19Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876: Volume 1 by Henry James 9780803222250
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.90Recipient of the "Approved Edition" seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly EditionsThe Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by... -
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature by Sheila Marie Contreras
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.502009 - Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesBlood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature... -
The Book of John Mandeville: with Related Texts by Iain Macleod Higgins
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh,...