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The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce by Umberto Eco
RRP: £20.99£17.98" . . . fascinating throughout. . . . the book is recreative in the highest sense." -Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic"A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." -Library JournalReviews" ..... -
Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Post Modern Culture by Hal Foster 9781565847422
RRP: £15.99£11.04For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent... -
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti 9780231186681
RRP: £28.00£21.36Mari 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... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton
RRP: £28.00£23.62Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects by Crystal B. Lake 9781421436500
RRP: £30.50£26.85A literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century.In the eighteenth century, antiquaries-wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians-used... -
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco
RRP: £29.99£25.99" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism" . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel by Ato Quayson
RRP: £23.99£19.99The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field,... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja
RRP: £23.99£20.41In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called... -
The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: £27.50£23.64Like no other art form, the novel confronts its readers with circumstances arising from their own environment of social and historical norms and stimulates them to assess and criticize their surroundings. By analyzing major works of English fiction... -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett 9781032285849
RRP: £18.99£16.87What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and... -
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: £29.00£25.58Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium... -
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter
RRP: £23.99£20.49Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the "Untranslatable"-the realm of... -
Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright 9781421433745
RRP: £30.50£26.85A critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to "rights" to safeguard the status of the powerful.As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the... -
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £16.99£14.61Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."For more than half a... -
Power: A Philosophical Analysis by Peter Morriss 9780719059964
RRP: £19.99£17.44When it first appeared, Power: A philosophical analysis was the first full-length attempt to analyse, in a philosophically rigorous way, what we mean when we talk about power. This revised second edition reprints the original, with an extended new... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9780801486746
RRP: £27.99£23.66Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"-texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing... -
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop
RRP: £21.99£18.79For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: £23.99£20.41Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary... -
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarseth
RRP: £25.00£21.58Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse-novels, films, television series-is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it... -
Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience by Cathy Caruth
RRP: £22.50£19.91This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession,... -
Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden V. White 9780801827419
RRP: £28.00£24.05Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also... -
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £14.99£12.55Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues... -
Ocean by Steve Mentz
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles... -
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History by M. A. R. Habib
RRP: £24.95£21.78Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. ... -
Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker
RRP: £24.99£21.23Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating... -
Literary Theory: A Beginner's Guide by Clare Connors 9781851687305
RRP: £9.99£6.41Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the... -
Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong
RRP: £30.50£26.85This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world-and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive... -
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gerard Genette
RRP: £29.99£24.56Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's... -
Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century by Paula R. Backscheider
RRP: £30.50£26.85A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century.During the long... -
Veering: A Theory of Literature by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £23.99£21.74This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life, Royle brilliantly traces a strangely compelling 'literary... -
Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History by Ian Baucom
RRP: £26.99£23.25In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist... -
The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative by Katherine Elkins
RRP: £17.00£14.72Sentiment analysis has gained widespread adoption in many fields, but not-until now-in literary studies. Scholars have lacked a robust methodology that adapts the tool to the skills and questions central to literary scholars. Also lacking has been... -
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
RRP: £24.00£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484827Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture by Marvin A. Carlson
RRP: £34.00£29.33"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban... -
Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton 9781421425764
RRP: £43.00£37.42How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read?Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century-when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers,... -
Expecting the Earth: LifeCultureBiosemiotics by Wendy Wheeler 9781910448670
RRP: £20.00£18.84The age of gene-centrism and mechanism is slowly passing. In its place, the biological sciences increasingly recognise that life isn't simply a genetically determined programme but is centrally a matter of information and communication systems nested in... -
The Literary Theory Handbook by Gregory Castle
RRP: £25.95£23.00The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories. A new edition of this... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: £25.99£22.44" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome... -
Writing History, Writing Trauma by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £25.00£21.58Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the... -
Lectures on Literature by Fredson Bowers
RRP: £19.99£15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027755Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...