Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Deconstructing Hegemony: Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography by Eman El-Meligi 9780199408467
RRP: £11.99£11.30Deconstructing 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,... -
Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780195089752
RRP: £59.00£23.81Deborah 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 by Zekiye Antakyalioglu 9781666913873
RRP: £93.00£81.80Post-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 – Essays by William Gass 9781628970395
RRP: £12.99£11.76The 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... -
Ranciere and Literature by Grace Hellyer 9781474402576
£110.30These 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... -
Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals by Tony Bennett 9781405156998
£41.49Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett. The selections in the volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present,... -
A Said Dictionary by R. Radhakrishnan 9781405183789
RRP: £65.95£65.40This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. * Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key... -
Living with Theory by Vincent B. Leitch 9781405175296
£100.27In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. * Argues that the field of theory in late postmodern consumer society has... -
The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118781050
£79.69This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. * Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that... -
Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118780992
£112.17This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established... -
Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas by Kaitlin M. Murphy 9780823282548
£94.00In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and... -
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire by Nathan K. Hensley 9780823282128
£97.86Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of... -
The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject by Irving Goh 9780823262687
£86.49This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille,... -
Legacies of Paul de Man by Marc Redfield 9780823227600
£85.42More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with "deconstruction," but with a "deconstruction in America" that continues to disturb the scholarly and pedagogical... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg 9780822347583
RRP: £95.00£82.73This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Three Satires by Nila Kantha 9780814788141
£22.02The Dark Age Ridiculed, by Nila*kantha, Beguiling Artistry, by Kshemendra, The Hundred Allegories, by Bhallata Written over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. Nila*kantha gets straight to the... -
Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) by Shoshana Felman 9780804744485
£107.11Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as... -
The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing by Jacques Ranciere 9780804740692
£88.73This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward... -
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio 9780745648637
RRP: £40.00£39.05With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is... -
Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies by Barbara M. Benedict 9780691656434
£105.69Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691633510
£92.17Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley,... -
Poetics of Reading by Inge Crosman Wimmers 9780691633459
£81.15What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them? Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current... -
The Fate of Meaning: Charles Peirce, Structuralism, and Literature by John K. Sheriff 9780691631035
£80.66This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and shows that his concept of the sign can give us a fresh understanding of literary art and criticism. John Sheriff analyzes the... -
Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion by Sarah Hammerschlag 9780231170581
£97.87Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of... -
Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in the Victorian Novel by Ruth Rosaler 9780198769743
£105.00How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration? Conspicuous Silences answers these questions by... -
Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries by Alison Booth 9780198759096
£90.74This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An... -
Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology by Amanda Anderson 9780198755821
£42.24We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward... -
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces by Stephen Orgel 9780198737568
RRP: £41.49£33.66The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them,... -
Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense: Criticism, Morals, and the Metaphysics of Power by Uttara Natarajan 9780198184379
£81.11The `only pretension, of which I am tenacious,' declares William Hazlitt in The Plain Speaker, `is that of being a metaphysician'; yet up till now his metaphysics, and particularly what is here identified as his `power principle', have not been examined... -
Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation by Thomas Docherty 9780198183587
£29.22Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from popular to art-film, and with political theory from Marx... -
Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation by Thomas Docherty 9780198183570
£55.40Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from popular to art-film, and with political theory from Marx... -
Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory by Howard Felperin 9780198128960
£93.81This book offers an account of the swiftly developing discipline of contemporary literary theory, and of its consequences for future literary study.Book InformationISBN 9780198128960Author Howard FelperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Oxford... -
Under the Bhasha Gaze: Modernity and Indian Literature by Prof PP Raveendran 9780192871558
£77.21The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as the everyday and the social imaginary. It is a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as they are embodied... -
Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World by Tim Watson 9780190852672
RRP: £83.00£73.28Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As... -
Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now by Amanda Lagji 9781474490207
£95.94Drawing from critical time and postcolonial studies, this book argues that 'waiting' is an essential concept in theorising the relationship between time and power in postcolonial fiction across the long twentieth century one that illuminates the... -
Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar by Jacques Khalip 9780823279548
RRP: £81.00£80.11The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While... -
The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject by Irving Goh 9780823262694
£27.25This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille,... -
Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty by Peggy Kamuf 9780823282296
£27.09Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this book, Peggy Kamuf explores why any properly philosophical... -
Intrigues: From Being to the Other by Gabriel Riera 9780823226719
£68.20Intrigues: From Being to the Other examines the possibility of writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible, and discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. Emmanuel... -
Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come by Barbara Cohen 9780823224319
£90.02This book is a marker of the "state of theory" today. Its rich array of wideranging essays explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary scholars in America. For nearly half a...