Semiotics & Theory

Autobiography 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156011594Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning,...

Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and...

As 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'...

Apologies 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

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables...

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". Written by one of the world's leading theorists in...

Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. 'Moving Through Modernity' offers the first full-length account of modernism from the...

From Medea to Goneril to Sharon Stone's ice-pick murderer to Susan Smith, the image of the violent woman has fascinated readers and audiences in a way that other figures have not. Jo Hendin looks at the figure of the violent woman in her latest book...

Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of...

The concept of ‘populism’ is currently used by scholars, the media and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. As a result, it defies neat...

Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255834Author Brooke RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading...

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles...

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields. Anchoring...

Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our sense of both the American literary and political landscapes from the late 1940s through the 21st century. Grundy presents the first...

Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological...

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls 'inner appropriation.' It does so by bringing two voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215678Author Marco CaraccioloFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the...

Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of material presence? Jacob McGuinn delves into the ways...

This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon's work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Separate chapters introduce Fanon's life and examine...

This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631559352Author Leszek DrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 340g

Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty is an innovative collection of essays offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of sovereignty for Indigenous nations. Presenting contemporary initiatives and scholarship in the humanities on behalf of...

Reading the impossible has never seemed less possible. A few decades ago, critical readings could view the collapse of foundationalism optimistically. With meaning no longer soldered onto being, there was hope for all those beings whose meaning had been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563833Author Francois BoutonnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

The contributors to The Moral of the Story, all preeminent political theorists, are unified by their concern with the instructive power of great literature. This thought-provoking combination of essays explores the polyvalent moral and political impact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989239110Author Rickels a LaurenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Anti-Oedipus PressPublisher Anti-Oedipus PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666929126Author Kerstin HowaldtFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation. It examines the extent to which Diderot, Proust and Deleuze are able to resist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812281545Author Silvio GaggiFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666913897Author Zekiye AntakyaliogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The readings are also informed by, among others, Michel Foucault,...

Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years (in cloth and paper) and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often...

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories...

The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Val ry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory...

These 13 essays consolidate and critique Ranciere's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his...