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And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351702Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin 9780674283992
RRP: $28.32$22.77No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons
RRP: $25.79$22.82Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between... -
The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet by Marcel Danesi
RRP: $25.79$22.72Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $20.63$18.47Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low" from market ideology to architecture, from... -
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
RRP: $38.70$37.73In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the... -
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed... -
Mushroom by Dr. Sara Rich
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating... -
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $16.13$15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027762Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $16.76$11.73Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural... -
Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion by Richard J Hand
RRP: $27.08$23.97This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad... -
The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes by Peter Adkins 9781474481977
RRP: $25.79$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481977Author Peter AdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy: To Francis Skinner - The Wittgenstein-Skinner Papers by Arthur Gibson 9783030360863
RRP: $51.59$46.69In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanations of the origin and background of these previously unknown manuscripts. It investigates how... -
"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays by Helene Cixous 9780674144378
$41.36This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Helene Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes-viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing... -
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $23.21$20.69"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd... -
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: $90.30$82.22Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
Wine by Meg Bernhard
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often... -
Sticker by Henry Hoke
RRP: $12.89$9.61"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth... -
Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts by Caroline Levine
RRP: $43.80$38.67A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. Covers a broad... -
Sigmund Freud by Pamela Thurschwell
RRP: $25.79$22.82The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated... -
Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065588
RRP: $32.25$31.40The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form... -
Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $38.69$33.50The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson
RRP: $36.11$31.04This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred by Professor Todd McGowan
RRP: $23.21$20.56What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this... -
Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: $19.34$14.34Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to... -
Cultural Capital: Problem of Literary Canon Formation by John Guillory
RRP: $36.12$35.33John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to recast not only the debate about the literary... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: $25.80$20.05Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four... -
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
RRP: $49.01$43.06What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns... -
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti
RRP: $25.80$20.05Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's... -
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco
RRP: $27.08$23.19"...not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics "...essential reading for anyone interesting in...the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library Journal In this... -
Theories of Mimesis by Arne Melberg
RRP: $39.98$29.48Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis... -
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary by Christopher Ehret
RRP: $90.30$70.10This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method. It also fully incorporates... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: $28.38$21.92Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering... -
Alarm by Dr. Alice Bennett
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have... -
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes 9780374521608
$11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521608Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: $32.24$28.86Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of... -
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World by Patricia Akhimie 9780367593438
RRP: $51.59$45.23Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to... -
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
RRP: $23.21$19.74The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the... -
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish 9780198129998
RRP: $36.11$33.82In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Stanley Fish explores the rational basis of our literary, legal, and psychoanalytic interpretations. He argues that while we can never separate our judgements from the context in which they are...