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The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance by Northrop Frye 9780674796768
£32.06Northrop 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: £17.00£15.24Humans 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... -
Reading in America: Literature and Social History by Cathy N. Davidson
RRP: £27.50£23.64"A rich resource for readers interested in the study of American culture."--'South Atlantic Review. '"The essays are noteworthy in their own right, and the collection overall is unified and coherent...'Reading in America' shows a field in its early... -
Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination by Nigel C. Gibson 9780745622613
RRP: £19.75£19.04Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable "intellect on fire," Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories... -
Words with Power: Being a Second Study of "the Bible and Literature" by Northrop Frye 9780156983655
RRP: £19.00£14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983655Author Northrop FryeFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination by Jewel Spears Brooker 9781421426525
RRP: £35.00£30.65What principles connect-and what distinctions separate-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land, and Four Quartets?The thought-tormented characters in T. S. Eliot's early poetry are paralyzed by the gap between mind and body, thought and... -
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction by Julie Rivkin
RRP: £21.95£19.32Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and... -
The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas 9781421431598
RRP: £29.00£22.16Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebrity-and in changing the larger book world itself.Gold Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award for History... -
Gramsci in the World by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: £23.99£20.41Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have offered concepts, categories, and political solutions that have been applied in a variety of social and political contexts, from postwar Italy to the insurgencies of the Arab Spring. The contributors to Gramsci in... -
The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne Brown
RRP: £30.50£29.72How did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments... -
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge by Natalia Cecire 9781421433776
RRP: £30.50£28.98A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental... -
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: £23.99£21.41"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... -
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
RRP: £27.99£23.66In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me," Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir... -
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory by Andrew Cole
RRP: £23.99£20.41This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age"... -
Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction by Nicholas Harrison 9780745621821
RRP: £17.99£16.04In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history and ideology are often overlooked by critics hurrying to stake out their political positions. As a result, many arguments are built on... -
Metaphors of Genre: The Role of Analogies in Genre Theory by David Fishelov
RRP: £34.95£30.61In Metaphors of Genre, David Fishelov demonstrates the important role played by analogies in genre theory and provides a critical presentation of four specific analogies that permeate modern genre theory: the biological analogy, the family "metaphor,"... -
Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene by Michael Cronin
RRP: £17.00£15.24Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a... -
Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film by Darryl Jones
RRP: £34.99£26.77What is the audience for horror? Why should we want to read books or watch films that make us afraid, or that contain acts of violence or depravity? Horror has had an established tradition in both fiction and film. From books such as Frankenstein and The... -
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 by Dorothy J. Hale 9781405107747
RRP: £39.95£36.04The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines,... -
Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii by Sebastian Budgen 9780822339410
RRP: £25.99£22.04Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who... -
Pregnancy Test by Prof. Karen Weingarten
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in... -
Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson
RRP: £30.50£26.85What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism.Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians... -
The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £21.99£19.16This 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 which... -
After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century by Ankhi Mukherjee 9781108466486
RRP: £22.99£22.85This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as these are developed in the dimensions of language,... -
Literary Theory for Beginners by Mary Klages 9781939994608
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994608Author Mary KlagesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough by Soren Brier
RRP: £37.00£33.87A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living... -
Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method by Kenneth Burke
RRP: £33.00£26.11From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the... -
Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case
RRP: £25.00£24.34A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.About the AuthorSue-Ellen Case is associate professor in the School of Drama,... -
Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? by Blakey Vermeule
£29.37Blakey Vermeule wonders how readers become involved in the lives of fictional characters, people they know do not exist. Vermeule examines the ways in which readers' experiences of literature are affected by the emotional attachments they form to... -
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature by Susan Stewart
RRP: £28.00£27.39From 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 Distinction of Fiction by Dorrit Cohn
RRP: £23.00£20.33Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques... -
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville
RRP: £22.99£22.37This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and... -
Literature as Exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt 9780873525671
RRP: £113.00£92.07Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by the... -
The Truth of the Technological World: Essays on the Genealogy of Presence by Friedrich A. Kittler
RRP: £27.99£23.66Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant... -
Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period by Anthony Domestico 9781421423319
£29.72Following the religious turn in other disciplines, literary critics have emphasized how modernists like Woolf and Joyce were haunted by Christianity's cultural traces despite their own lack of belief. In Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period,... -
Travels in China by Roland Barthes 9780745650814
£18.09In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £23.99£20.41Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate, but it has not been the subject of serious discussion... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food by J. Michelle Coghlan
RRP: £23.99£23.80This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature... -
Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place by Dara Downey
RRP: £41.00£38.92Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises... -
Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion by Giulia Sissa 9781509511853
RRP: £17.99£16.04Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is...