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Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: $83.85$73.75Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about... -
Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay
RRP: $42.88$36.64In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and... -
The Language of the English Street Sign by Vivian Cook
RRP: $58.40$48.38This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they... -
Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher 9780226279350
RRP: $52.65$51.62For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and... -
The Practice of Writing by David Lodge
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman
RRP: $59.48$57.95A reimagining of how the aesthetic movement of the Victorian era ushered in modern queer theory.Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose... -
Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
RRP: $46.78$39.80In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature... -
Tone by Sofia Samatar 9780231211215
RRP: $33.13$26.01Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know... -
The Radical Aesthetic by Isobel Armstrong 9780631220534
RRP: $72.05$63.39This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.About the... -
Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds by Lubomir Dolezel
RRP: $58.50$51.54"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing... -
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman
RRP: $50.68$42.98Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions -... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White
RRP: $56.55$50.66Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history,... -
The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England by Holly Dugan
RRP: $113.10$112.46In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented... -
Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
RRP: $49.73$42.88Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to... -
History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene by Ian Baucom
RRP: $42.88$36.64In History 4 Degrees Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns... -
After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century by Colleen Lye
RRP: $46.78$39.72After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama,... -
Sock by Kim Adrian
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history,... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $46.78$39.80Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of sexuality, of history, of the body, of the psyche, of meaning... -
Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions by Isabel Jaen 9780292754423
RRP: $46.78$39.80In the first decade of the twenty-first century, our understanding of the cognition of literature was transformed by scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron system and its role in empathy. Addressing questions such as why we care so deeply... -
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of the Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine Lisa Zunshine 9780814251515
RRP: $58.40$56.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251515Author Lisa Zunshine Lisa ZunshineFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
Reading the Illegible by Craig Dworkin 9780810119277
RRP: $58.40$47.05A poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations... -
Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology by Gregory Castle 9780631210054
RRP: $81.80$72.40Emphasising the increasingly regional or national approach to the legacies of colonialism, this Reader provides an entirely new way for students to engage with an important and complex area of discourse.About the AuthorGregory Castle teaches English and... -
Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel by Adeline Johns-Putra 9781108427371
RRP: $175.50$158.01Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in wider society. Given the urgency and enormity of the problem, can literature (and the emotional response it provokes) play a role in answering the complex... -
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania by Karin Littau 9780745616599
$35.28Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions,... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark answers this question by going... -
Ecosemiotic Landscape: A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities by Almo Farina
RRP: $33.15$28.70The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between... -
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $25.33$22.05High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism by Dr Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
$64.64As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things - the 'posthuman'... -
Theories of Memory: A Reader by Michael Rossington
RRP: $60.45$54.89Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students will be able both to broaden their knowledge of contemporary theoretical perspectives and trace the... -
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene by Stefania Barca
RRP: $33.15$28.70The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a... -
Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
$25.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558968011Author Elizabeth Jarrett AndrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Skinner House BooksPublisher Skinner House BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays by C S Lewis
RRP: $25.33$21.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062643599Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data by Heather Houser
RRP: $58.50$44.50How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What... -
Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins 9781503633209
RRP: $40.93$30.85An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $48.73$41.40Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect,... -
Password by Martin Paul Eve
RRP: $19.48$14.53This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The open-access edition of this text was made possible by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust. Object... -
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road by Catherine Liu 9780816648009
RRP: $46.78$40.58Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud's landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists, and literary critics... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida by Leslie Hill
RRP: $38.98$33.40Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski
RRP: $59.48$53.14How 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 Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man" by Kandice Chuh
RRP: $42.88$36.64In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the...