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Stephen Greenblatt by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.23Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of... -
Stephen Greenblatt by Robert Eaglestone 9780415343848
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of... -
The Holocaust and the Postmodern by Robert Eaglestone 9780199239375
RRP: £46.49Booksplease Price: £45.73Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a response to the Holocaust. This way of thinking offers new... -
Frantz Fanon by Robert Eaglestone 9780415602969
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from... -
English: Shared Futures by Robert Eaglestone 9781843845164
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.22Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is... -
Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short... -
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film by Robert Eaglestone 9780230019362
Booksplease Price: £46.74The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic... -
Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film by Robert Eaglestone 9780230019379
Booksplease Price: £46.28The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic... -
Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy by Robert Eaglestone 9780415454285
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life... -
J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory by Robert Eaglestone 9781441101112
Booksplease Price: £40.79Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading... -
Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students Robert Eaglestone 9781138039674
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.78Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do' English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself... -
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses Robert Eaglestone 9780815376699
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and... -
Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It focusses on both... -
Studying English: A Guide for Literature Students Robert Eaglestone 9780415837262
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically for English literature courses in America.Studying... -
The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone 9780198778363
Booksplease Price: £78.80'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as... -
Literature: Why It Matters Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781509532322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one... -
Literature: Why It Matters Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781509532315
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one... -
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Reading "The Lord of the Rings": New Writings on Tolkien's Trilogy by Robert Eaglestone 9780826484604
Booksplease Price: £37.81J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy have become among of the most popular books of the twentieth century while the recent film adaptations have made box office records. This book provides a... -
Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative by Hanna Meretoja 9780367667481
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.81In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as... -
Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Martin McQuillan
Booksplease Price: £31.31Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt... -
Beckett and Philosophy by Richard Lane 9780333918791
Booksplease Price: £46.74Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. There are two wide-ranging overview chapters by Richard... -
Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II by Paul Crosthwaite 9780230202955
Booksplease Price: £46.28The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fiction and the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has... -
Under the Shadow of the Swastika: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe by Rab Bennett 9780333656020
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book is a study in the ethics of war. It is the only work which focuses on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe, including a detailed examination of Jewish... -
On Waiting Harold Schweizer (Bucknell University, USA) 9780415775076
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.52'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful. The book is astonishingly erudite, but wears this... -
The Origins of Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9780230581906
Booksplease Price: £46.28In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings 9780415285445
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film by Matthew Boswell 9780230231955
Booksplease Price: £46.28Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.87History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you... -
Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony by Nicholas Chare 9781349452170
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins 9781138127722
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you... -
The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable by Andrew N. Leak 9780333738870
Booksplease Price: £45.31A major new collection of essays examining the problems of representing the Holocaust in fiction. The essays assembled here deal with the relations between the discourses of fiction (or imaginative... -
Creolizing Hannah Arendt by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat 9781538176566
Booksplease Price: £95.79Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism,... -
Federico Garcia Lorca by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond... -
Federico Garcia Lorca by Maria M. Delgado 9780415362429
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond... -
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and Continuities Dr Stephanie Bird 9781350424135
Booksplease Price: £30.54Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and... -
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicities and Continuities Dr Stephanie Bird 9781350424098
Booksplease Price: £85.65Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and... -
English: The Condition of the Subject by Philip W. Martin 9781403988287
Booksplease Price: £48.14This collection discusses the condition of the subject of English in UK higher education and elsewhere. It understands 'English' not as idealistic or theoretical concept, but as practice made... -
Crunch Lit by Katy Shaw 9781472510068
Booksplease Price: £29.55The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "Crunch Lit". These 'recession writings' take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern and explore its... -
Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift by Stef Craps
Booksplease Price: £109.14Shows how the novels elaborate an ethics of alterity by means of a detailed study of one of Swift's most persistent and fascinating -- yet all too often ignored -- concerns: the traumatic experience...