Literature: History & Criticism
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Soul of Poetry Redefined
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...
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Sound and Bundy
Interactive Press£20.00| /In 2006, the posthumously-published works of little known poet Jason Silver caused a minor sensation on the Adelaide literary scene. His surreal, i...
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Sound, Music, Writing
Boulevard Books (UK)£15.95| /A highly original and bravura reading of twentieth century literature in Italy that traces the role of sound, music, voice and even noise in the co...
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Spaces in Between
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...
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Spatial Practices
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /In recent decades, the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention an...
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Speech & System
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /In this investigation, creative writing and philosophy are shown to be specific types of language games, distinct from speech as used in communicat...
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Spinning the Secrets of State
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...
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Start to Figure
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. In this wide-ranging collection, Andrew DuBois rounds up some 200 reviews of contemporary Canadian poets (from Jordan ...
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Stitching Things Together
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...
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Stories From My Life
Ariadne Press (US)£30.99| /The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 2
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£49.99| /Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the ...
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 3
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£89.99| /With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /Study of Medieval Greek Romance
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Susanna Shakespeare
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£19.95| /One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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