Literature & Literary Studies
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Purgatorio
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Paradiso (Hackett, 2017), Stanley Lombardo's Purgatorio features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Purple Sky
Piercemore Books£15.99| /"A Purple Sky" is an epic poem written in couplet rhymes. It is the story of three young adventurers who begin a quest in the wilderness to find an...
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Queering the Way
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...
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Questions in Bed
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Incisive and intensely felt, Stewart Cole's striking debut collection reminds us that we too live in an age of anxiety, disoriented by doubt, and u...
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Quilt
Sybylla Press (AUS)£9.95| /Finola Moorhead pulls no punches, her voice is extraordinarily fresh, direct and honest, she takes chances, she is often surreal, and always challe...
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Rabbit for Kim Jong-il
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Johann's super-sized rabbits are his pride and joy. Much to his surprise, the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has taken...
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Rabbit Punch!
DC Books (CA)Original price £14.99Current price £13.99| /In Rabbit Punch!, Marco Polo reminisces on his friendship with Kublai Khan over deli sandwiches, Wilfred Owen and Ernest Hemingway trade war storie...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In 1931 the authorities seized 14-year-old Molly Craig from her desert home in Jigalong, western Australia, with her younger sister Daisy and cousi...
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Radiance
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Radiance, is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. Cressy, Nora and Mae are half-sisters with little in common except the gh...
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Radius of Light
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This is a lively, profoundly intelligent exposé of our lives as lived in this World . . . very often at its environmental expense. Here are tales o...
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Rain Shadow
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with somethin...
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Rainbow of Life
Petra Publishing (UK)£6.99| /'Rainbow of Life' is the first in the series of seven poetry gift books written by Chrissy Greenslade.
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Randolph Caldecott
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...
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Random Illuminations
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...
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Rapture
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A group of friends gather to celebrate the homecoming of two of their group, who went overseas after an unfortunate fire wiped out their home and p...
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Re-forming World Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£35.00| /The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centre...
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Reading Anew
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£22.99| /Analyzes Lezama's use of language and the cultural archive. Shows how the verbal experience in his work constitutes a theoretical reflection about ...
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Reading Robinson
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...
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Reading Writers Reading
University of Alberta Press (CA)£50.00| /"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. ".reading is a connection, at...
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Readings From The Labyrinth
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist criticsa collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.
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Real Desire
Indra Publishing (AUS)£21.99| /A collection of essays, written over the last ten years by Robyn Ferrell, who is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmani...
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Realism
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In the summer of 1939 in a small Moscow theatre a company of actors begins rehearsals of a new play to commemorate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. It i...
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Reality and Truth in Literature
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /This study provides a critical survey of views on reality and truth in the realm of philosophy and literary theory. Its aim is to show how importan...
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Reason and Lovelessness
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, essays, biography, history, criticism, novels, short stories, libretti and reportage. His maj...
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Reason in the Balance
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examini...
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Rebuilding the Profession
V & R Unipress GmbH£42.99| /This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a re...
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ReCalling Early Canada
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WW...
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Reception of Plutarch's 'Lives' in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£82.99| /Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been...
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Reckless Women
Ronsdale Press (CA)£11.99| /Reckless women inhabit the spaces of these poems: women who dare to travel without maps or even 'a single sign', women who dare the seduction of cl...
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Reckonings
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Lane is allusive, intricate, and technically ranging, while the abiding impulses of her work remain spirituously generous and affirmative. Few cont...
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Recognition & Ethics in World Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£29.99| /This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory...
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Recognition and Modes of Knowledge
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts and humanities throughout history. It is a universal mode of knowledge in litera...
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Record of the Listener
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...
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Record of the Listener
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£48.99| /"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...
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Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...
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Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£53.99| /The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...
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Red Earth
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£17.99| /Alice Corbin (1881-1949) was part of an inner circle of writers and artists on the national scene in the early twentieth century. Corbin lived and ...
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Red Sky Morning
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Three family members, three monologues, one day, and a heartbreaking tragedy of miscommunication. (1 male, 2 female).
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Reformation
Playdead Press£9.99| /Reformation is funny, gripping and challenging new speculative play inspired by the life and art of the German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach. Be...
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Regenerations / Régénérations
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Cana...
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Relations of Power
V & R Unipress GmbH£38.99| /Women's networks - their relations with other women, men, objects and place - were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions t...
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Remember Ronald Ryan
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)Original price £21.99Current price £14.99| /The human and political story of the last man to be executed in Australia, Remember Ronald Ryan won the 1995 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Di...
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Repercussions
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /Profound and forthright poetic reflections by a New York City psychoanalyst on the darkest secrets of the human heart.
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Replay
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /The past is what you make it. John saw his brother Michael die. He seems to have forgotten it, until now. His brother Peter saw it too, but remembe...
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Representation of Business in English Literature
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /Five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelist...
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Resisting the Anomie
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry P...
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Restless White Fields
NeWest Press (CA)£11.99| /On 26 May 1991, Barbara Langhorst's father shot and killed her mother, then turned the gun on himself. This book asks: how do you rebuild a life? I...
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Retrievals
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /The theme of this new collection of fifty poems by veteran poet Ruth Moon Kempher (b. 1934) is the preservation of memories through imagery. Using ...
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