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Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode by Angus Fletcher
RRP: $68.25$53.84Anyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical expression of ideas pervades literature, art, music, religion, politics, business, and advertising. But how does allegory really work and how should... -
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: $44.83$38.22In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time... -
Georg Lukacs and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia by Tyrus Miller
RRP: $175.50$142.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399502412Author Tyrus MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $48.75$46.68"An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project."--'Modern Philology.' "There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function as `performer' of the... -
Decolonizing Ethics: The Critical Theory of Enrique Dussel by Amy Allen
RRP: $48.65$42.00Enrique Dussel is Latin America's foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics, political philosophy, and liberation theology. Designed for classroom use, this collection of essays engages with Dussel's encyclopedic work, making his... -
The Open Work by Umberto Eco 9780674639768
$72.01More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its... -
The People Are Missing: Minor Literature Today by Gregg Lambert
RRP: $42.88$29.46"The people are missing" is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure. With the translation of this work into English (Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature) in 1986,... -
Traces by Ernst Bloch
RRP: $42.88$37.62Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how... -
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan by Eric Hayot
RRP: $39.00$30.30Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization of the university, plummeting enrollments, budget cuts, and political critiques from right, left, and... -
Signs of Meaning in the Universe by Jesper Hoffmeyer
RRP: $44.83$38.22From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition:" . . . dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read." -Berlingske Tidende" . . . an appetizer and eye opener . . . Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open spaces of the natural... -
Stroller by Amanda Parrish Morgan
RRP: $19.48$14.53The Best Books of 2022, The New Yorker Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and... -
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the Reader by Merav Roth
RRP: $62.38$55.24What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious... -
The Pen And The Sword: Conversations with Edward Said by David Barsamian 9781931859950
RRP: $29.23$19.27A collection of five wide-ranging interviews with Edward Said (1935-2003), covering topics such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his groundbreaking work of literary scholarship Orientalism, critical theory, music and more. Includes a new preface by... -
A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
RRP: $52.65$41.01As 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... -
The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers by Allen Grossman
RRP: $59.48$58.73During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and... -
A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065533
RRP: $58.50$57.04Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by... -
A General Introduction to the Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce by James Jakob Liszka
$43.93"This definitive text is the single best work on Peirce's semeiotic (as Peirce would have spelled it) allowing scholars to extrapolate beyond Peirce or to apply him to new areas . . ." -Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter". . ... -
Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger by Professor Marcel Danesi
RRP: $50.68$44.09Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. Why was... -
Recipe by Professor or Dr. Lynn Z. Bloom
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process... -
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $33.13$28.74Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She... -
Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty by Emmanuel Alloa
RRP: $52.63$44.56In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty's thinking and a thorough... -
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $46.78$39.18Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. Over the last forty years... -
Environment by Rolf Halden
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how... -
In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad 9781844672134
RRP: $44.83$29.29After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed
RRP: $43.88$42.28Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Vera J. Camden
RRP: $46.78$44.56The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic dimensions of... -
Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text by Sally Bushell
RRP: $175.50$147.26Do we map as we read? How central to our experience of literature is the way in which we spatialise and visualise a fictional world? Reading and Mapping Fiction offers a fresh approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the... -
Technology, Literature and Culture by Alex Goody 9780745639543
RRP: $33.13$29.68Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist... -
The New Feminist Literary Studies by Jennifer Cooke
$37.13The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains... -
Airportness: The Nature of Flight by Dr. Christopher Schaberg
$39.04Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of... -
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 by Frank Kermode 9780198122241
$81.28Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study... -
Teaching Literature by Elaine Showalter 9780631226246
RRP: $52.55$45.69Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine ShowalterOriginal and provocative reflections on... -
The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature by Jessie Reeder
RRP: $59.48$52.36An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization.Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationSpanish colonization of Latin America came to an... -
Reading After Theory by Valentine Cunningham
RRP: $68.15$60.12Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.About the Author Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in English... -
How to Do Theory by Wolfgang Iser 9781405115803
RRP: $52.55$45.69This succinct introduction to modern theories of literature and the arts demonstrates how each theory is built and what it can accomplish. Represents a wide variety of theories, including phenomenological theory, hermeneutical theory, gestalt theory,... -
The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise by Mark Currie
RRP: $56.53$51.46This book explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpected argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. Though... -
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism by Nicholas Brown 9781478001591
RRP: $44.83$38.22In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how... -
Karl Marx and World Literature by S. S. Prawer 9781844677108
RRP: $54.58$45.38"Very few men," said Bakunin, "have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx." S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature-poems, novels, plays-infused and shaped Marx's... -
The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance by Northrop Frye 9780674796768
$62.52Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism, a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the... -
Wastocene: Stories from the Global Dump by Marco Armiero
RRP: $33.15$29.72Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in...