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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: $73.48$64.03This 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: $41.98$36.83In 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... -
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9781328470225
RRP: $39.88$28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books... -
The Language of the English Street Sign Vivian Cook 9781800414556
RRP: $62.90$52.10This 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... -
Culture in a Liquid Modern World Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745653556
RRP: $31.48$28.52In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson 9780804718226
RRP: $62.98$56.49Books 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 Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce by Umberto Eco
RRP: $39.88$35.11" . . . 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" ..... -
How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art by Paul B. Armstrong
RRP: $55.65$48.91"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the... -
Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
RRP: $46.18$40.30In 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... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: $46.20$36.46Although 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... -
Tone by Sofia Samatar 9780231211215
RRP: $35.68$28.67Tone 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 Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman
RRP: $50.38$43.76Why 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 -... -
Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713427
RRP: $37.78$28.98Apologies 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 -
How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now by Walter Stephens 9781421446646
RRP: $63.00$52.10A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the massive history of the written word into an accessible,... -
The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge 9780198798903
$64.53What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible... -
History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene by Ian Baucom
RRP: $41.98$36.83In 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... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: $50.38$43.76Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne... -
Postcolonialism Tariq Jazeel 9781138677487
RRP: $77.68$68.31Postcolonialism 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... -
Sock by Kim Adrian
RRP: $20.98$16.11Object 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,... -
Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions by Isabel Jaen 9780292754423
RRP: $46.18$40.30In 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... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
RRP: $52.48$45.51A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon 9780415280167
RRP: $75.58$66.55This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to... -
Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction by Susan Meyer 9780801482557
RRP: $65.10$57.46The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte,... -
On Narrative by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532172
RRP: $34.65$34.08The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human... -
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421417974
RRP: $64.05$57.48Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game"... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: $20.98$16.11Object 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... -
Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie 9780521275880
RRP: $83.98$69.85The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN 9780521275880Author Malcolm BowieFormat... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: $90.30$80.89Energy 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... -
Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology Gregory Castle (Arizona State University) 9780631210054
RRP: $88.10$77.97Emphasising 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... -
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature by Susan Stewart
RRP: $58.80$51.53From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of "making sense" from which they are derived... -
The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature by R.Clifton Spargo 9780801879777
RRP: $102.90$90.85The Ethics of Mourning dramatically shifts the critical discussion of the lyric elegy from psychological economy to ethical responsibility. Beginning from a reevaluation of famously inconsolable mourners such as Niobe and Hamlet, R. Clifton Spargo... -
Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of Andrea de Jorio's La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano by Andrea de Jorio
RRP: $46.18$42.40"I had heard about this book for years. The person who put the word out, at least in lay circles, was probably Luigi Barzini, in The Italians (1964). Praising his countrymen's gift for talking with their hands, Barzini lamented that so little had been... -
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by E. L. Wright 9780745619668
$37.99What 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... -
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe by Peter Y. Paik
RRP: $37.78$34.23"I read Peter Y. Paik's lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." -Bruce Sterling Revolutionary narratives in recent science... -
Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data by Heather Houser
RRP: $63.00$48.91How 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... -
Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky
RRP: $27.28$18.12As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $48.28$42.02Over 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,... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman
RRP: $64.05$57.48A 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... -
Structuralism John Sturrock (London Review of Books) 9780631232391
RRP: $79.70$70.06John Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. ... -
The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man" by Kandice Chuh
RRP: $41.98$36.83In 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...