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James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £26.22Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett,... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann 9780195031034
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £55.95'A truly masterful biography, wise in its completeness. If Joyce be a great writer, then this is a great book.' Sunday Times 'The greatest literary biography of the century.' Anthony Burgess, The... -
Yeats: The Man And The Masks by Richard Ellmann 9781774640500
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774640500Author Richard EllmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must... -
Ulysses on the Liffey by Professor Richard Ellmann 9780195016635
RRP: £38.49Booksplease Price: £26.60A new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.Book InformationISBN 9780195016635Author Richard EllmannFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Professor Richard Ellmann 9780393008593
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.95The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject:... -
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Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum by Susan Dick 9780773507074 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £3.39Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ...differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic... -
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of... -
James Joyce. Volume I: 1907-27 by Robert H. Deming 9780415487504
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual... -
Who Reads Ulysses?: The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars Julie Sloan Brannon 9780415803472
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Julie Sloan Brannon examines the Joyce Wars as a fascinating nexus of the conflicts between scholars and ordinary readers, and one that illuminates the existence of ulysses -and by extension,... -
Who Reads Ulysses?: The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars by Julie Sloan Brannon 9780415942065
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Julie Sloan Brannon examines the Joyce Wars as a fascinating nexus of the conflicts between scholars and ordinary readers, and one that illuminates the existence of ulysses -and by extension,... -
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition by Alistair Cormack 9781138376175
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites: Yeats as the... -
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition by Alistair Cormack 9780754660286
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.37While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites: Yeats as the... -
Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake: An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions by Kimberley J. Devlin 9780691607405
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.17Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud's... -
Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats by Barton R. Friedman 9780691616537
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode,... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6: Novela/Nivola by Miguel de Unamuno 9780691609522
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.18The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library... -
The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses by Karen Lawrence 9780691609836
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as... -
Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats by Barton R. Friedman 9780691656427
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode,... -
Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire by Jeff Nunokawa
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity... -
Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses by Michael A. Seidel 9780691610665
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In proposing that places, movements, and directions are deeply implicated in the narrative structure of Ulysses, Michael Seidel contends that Joyce recreates in Dublin the significant epic geography... -
ULYSSES in Progress by Michael Groden
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The publication of James Joyce's Ulysses crowned years of writing and constant rewriting at almost every stage, so that as many as ten versions exist for some pages. To understand how Joyce worked,... -
Eliot in His Time: Essays on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Wasteland by A. Walton Litz 9780691619156
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.63The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are:... -
Selected Writings Michaux by Henri Michaux 9780811201056
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a... -
The Conscience of James Joyce by Darcy O'Brien 9780691622804
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82James Joyce, the great and bold literary innovator of our time, was also a rebel in life, a self-exile from family, nation, and religion. Criticism of Joyce, when it has not been purely technical,... -
Wallace Stevens and the Symbolist Imagination by Michel Benamou 9780691619804
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Michel 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,... -
Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination by Mary Trackett Reynolds 9780691602165
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.84Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows how Joyce created in his own fiction a Dantean allegory of art. Dr. Reynolds argues... -
The Poetry of Hart Crane by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.84One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691622859
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.85The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets... -
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Zachary Leader 9780674248397
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century-an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James... -
Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual No.16: A Special Number by Warwick Gould 9781403945686
Booksplease Price: £90.86From this renowned research-level series, Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual 16 thrusts Yeats's poems back into the circumstances of their creation and revision, thereby addressing what is very much... -
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII by British Academy 9780197265857
Booksplease Price: £92.60The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's... -
Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966 by Martin Stannard 9780393311662
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56"Definitive. . . . Deeply researched and pondered." "A literary biography of the same caliber as Richard Ellmann's James Joyce." These words of praise from Edmund Morris in the New York Times and... -
Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel by Robert McParland 9781680538830
Booksplease Price: £114.42Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This volume focuses on... -
Richard Strauss: Salome by Derrick Puffett 9780521359702
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41This full-length study of Salome is the first in English since Lawrence Gilman's introductory guide of 1907. The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical... -
Western Writers in Japan by S. Okada 9780333721742
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book relates the experiences of a range of Western writers who went to Japan as teachers and lecturers, covering a period of over 100 years. It discusses East-West cultural differences; Western... -
Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire by John Bradley 9780312217648
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sheldon M. Novick has written an extensive biographical introduction. This is complimented by an essay documenting James's friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished... -
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.27Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood... -
Giacomo Joyce: Faber Stories by James Joyce
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?The manuscript of... -
Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon by Joseph Kelly 9780292723764
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores... -
James Joyce: A Political Life by Frank Callanan 9780691227979
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.80A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he...