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The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) by Peirce Edition Project
RRP: $58.48$51.46Praise for Volume 1:" . . . 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 BooksVolume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski 9781421439211
$169.38How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction by Bran Nicol
RRP: $44.83$38.14Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern... -
High Heel by Summer Brennan
RRP: $19.48$14.53Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed,... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz 9780465093557
$53.94In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... -
The Sociology of Literature by Gisèle Sapiro 9781503637597
RRP: $42.88$36.64The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative by David Herman
RRP: $68.23$57.23The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse... -
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory by Matthew Garrett
RRP: $46.78$39.72Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to... -
Hair by Scott Lowe
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious... -
Roland Barthes by Michael Moriarty 9780745604565
$37.13This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass... -
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater by Joseph Cermatori
RRP: $59.48$52.36A groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance.Finalist for the Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Honorable Mention for the Balakian Prize... -
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P. Tompkins
$52.51With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.About the AuthorJane P. Thompkins has written widely on the... -
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by E. L. Wright 9780745619668
$35.28What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging... -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486434414
RRP: $14.61$12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434414Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: $64.33$55.34This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still... -
Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science by Christian Bok 9780810118775
RRP: $48.65$39.51A critical look at the historical and cultural implications of Alfred Jarry's pseudoscience, pataphysics 'Pataphysics, what Alfred Jarry calls ""the science of imaginary solutions,"" has until now gone largely ignored by literary scholars, due in part to... -
Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $31.18$26.73Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary... -
Mythologies: The Complete Edition by Roland Barthes 9780809071944
RRP: $31.20$21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809071944Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams 9780393006094
RRP: $52.65$45.18In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in... -
The Productive Body by Didier Deleule 9781780995762
RRP: $19.48$16.75The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism's transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science... -
Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan 9781532645044
RRP: $62.40$47.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532645044Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Postcolonialism by Tariq Jazeel
RRP: $72.13$63.43Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to 'postcolonial... -
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century by Bashir Abu-Manneh
RRP: $44.83$36.54By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic,... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: $54.50$46.82Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the... -
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1: 1857-1866 by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: $105.30$91.55The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, and a full chronological... -
Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons by Daniel Heller-roazen
RRP: $58.50$45.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130475Author Daniel Heller-roazenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 616gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 156mm *... -
The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations by Paul Bains 9781442626980
RRP: $58.48$53.39How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the... -
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature by Ben Etherington
RRP: $46.78$39.72The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of... -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: $68.23$59.46This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: $44.83$38.14This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how... -
Obscenity & The Arts by Anthony Burgess 9780993037863
RRP: $21.43$16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993037863Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Pariah PressPublisher Pariah Press -
Posthumanism by Pramod K. Nayar
RRP: $31.18$28.10This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical... -
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton by Emily R. Wilson 9780801879647
RRP: $93.60$81.20In Paradise Lost, Adam asks, "Why do I overlive?" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Milton... -
The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology by Virginia Jackson 9781421412009
RRP: $88.73$79.03The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,... -
Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative by Paul John Eakin
RRP: $46.78$39.80Autobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part of the fabric of our ongoing experience. We tell the stories of our lives piecemeal, and these stories are not merely about our selves but also an... -
The Scent of the Father – Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub–Saharan Africa by VY Mudimbé
RRP: $33.13$29.68Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s,... -
Coffee by Dinah Lenney
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves... -
A Derrida Dictionary by Niall Lucy 9780631218432
RRP: $66.20$58.46This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works.From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 by Hayden White
RRP: $52.63$44.56Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known... -
Empire Signs by Roland Barthes
$19.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522070Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc