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Posthumanism Pramod K. Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India) 9780745662411
RRP: $20.63$18.59This 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... -
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen 9780521599672
RRP: $49.01$40.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene by Stefania Barca
RRP: $21.93$18.99The 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... -
Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
$21.87Terry 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... -
Productive Body, The Stephen Shapiro 9781780995762
RRP: $12.89$11.08The 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... -
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop
RRP: $25.79$22.63For 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... -
Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach by Michael McKeon 9780801863974
RRP: $47.09$44.03Michael McKeon, author of The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, here assembles a collection of influential essays on the theory of the novel. Carefully chosen selections from Frye, Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, Lukacs, Bakhtin, and other prominent... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: $27.08$23.70Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment by Imre Szeman
RRP: $38.69$34.70How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another-from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever... -
Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story by John Dominic Crossan 9780944344064
RRP: $16.71$16.59From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory, philosophy, theology and biblical studies, he demonstrates the... -
The Practice of Writing by David Lodge
RRP: $16.76$11.73In 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... -
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P. Tompkins
$34.74With 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... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White
RRP: $37.41$34.16Hayden 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,... -
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1: 1857-1866 by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: $64.50$57.29The 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... -
Rhetoric by Dr. Jennifer Richards
RRP: $25.79$22.82Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture... -
A Theory of Musical Semiotics by Eero Tarasti
RRP: $39.99$35.81"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " -Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of... -
The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations by Paul Bains 9781442626980
RRP: $38.69$31.14How 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... -
Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture by Marvin A. Carlson
RRP: $38.69$34.19"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... -
An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis by Louis Hebert 9780367351120
RRP: $49.01$43.06An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author's own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to... -
Postcolonialism Tariq Jazeel 9781138677487
RRP: $47.72$41.96Postcolonialism 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... -
Narrative Discourse Revisited by Gerard Genette
RRP: $27.08$23.70In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja
RRP: $28.37$24.76In 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... -
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton by Emily R. Wilson 9780801879647
RRP: $61.92$54.71In 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: $58.70$53.23The 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,... -
The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa Valentin-Yves Mudimbe 9781509551392
RRP: $21.92$19.63Valentin-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,... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: $25.79$22.82Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most... -
Coffee by Dinah Lenney
RRP: $12.89$9.89Object 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... -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007 by Hayden White
RRP: $30.95$26.88Hayden 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... -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: $45.14$39.33This 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... -
Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay
RRP: $25.79$22.63In 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... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: $55.47$49.69Energy 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... -
The Language of the English Street Sign Vivian Cook 9781800414556
RRP: $38.64$32.00This 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... -
Edward Said by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: $33.53$29.19Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman
RRP: $39.35$35.31A 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: $28.37$24.76In 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: $21.92$17.61Tone 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... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson 9780804718226
RRP: $38.69$34.70Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or... -
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman
RRP: $30.95$26.88Why 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 -... -
A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
RRP: $34.83$27.68As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement" (1931), he began to discriminate a 'rhetorical' or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of... -
Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713427
RRP: $23.21$17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713427Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams) 440g