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Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: $39.88$26.69A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark... -
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
RRP: $23.08$16.32In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive... -
The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett by Jeff Fort 9780823254699
RRP: $121.80$99.67Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from... -
By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose by Simon Morley
RRP: $52.50$33.26A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. 'Fascinating... I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.' Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with... -
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: $35.68$25.79In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch's painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist,... -
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Prof Jeff Jarvis
RRP: $42.00$31.46The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print... -
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by Rene Girard
RRP: $60.90$53.72This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and... -
Minds on Stage: Greek Tragedy and Cognition by Felix Budelmann 9780192888938
RRP: $174.30$158.21Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple... -
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses by Patrick Hastings
RRP: $37.80$29.38From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and... -
Office by Dr. Sheila Liming
RRP: $20.98$15.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has... -
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction by Prof Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei 9780198830023
RRP: $18.88$13.55Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human... -
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780719014505
RRP: $31.48$23.35Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the... -
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226806Author Matthew SalessesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954
RRP: $68.25$61.76Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy,... -
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal 9781442628342
RRP: $56.68$53.03Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret... -
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff 9781566630979
$28.96Since its first publication more than fifteen years ago, Literature Against Itself has achieved wide recognition as the first major critique of post-1960s cultural radicalism-and still, one of the best. In it, Gerald Graff argues that the reigning... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus
RRP: $71.38$62.29The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key... -
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley
RRP: $18.88$14.85"Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their... -
Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction by Sara Upstone
RRP: $31.48$20.58Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary... -
The Language of Fashion by Roland Barthes
RRP: $41.98$39.48Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial... -
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $27.28$17.98Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to read this' Daily TelegraphWhat happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a writer create its... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: $50.40$43.58Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the... -
Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
RRP: $77.68$68.31At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby... -
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $48.28$41.16A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English by C. L. Innes
RRP: $56.68$47.88The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field,... -
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler 9780415289894
RRP: $27.28$25.07A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and... -
Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature by Edwin Bikundo 9780367548919
RRP: $83.98$73.63In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the... -
Gothic by Fred Botting 9780415831727
RRP: $48.28$42.34This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on 'Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion... -
Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: $46.18$39.46In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods,... -
Plot: The Art of Story by Amy Jones
RRP: $12.58$8.63Why do some books grab you from the very first line?What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories?Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat pocket book, English lecturer Amy Jones describes the... -
Lyotard and Politics by Stuart Sim
RRP: $58.78$53.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456524Author Stuart SimFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Narrative: Telling the Story by Amy Jones 9781907155475
RRP: $14.60$9.85What is the best way to tell a story? In first-person peripheral, or third-person focalised? Unfolding in the present, or as events in the past? Where is the camera? What is the lens? Where is the action? In this concise little book, educator Amy Jones... -
From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen
RRP: $58.70$52.35The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious... -
The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 by Mary Carruthers 9780521795418
RRP: $79.78$66.32The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and... -
Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: $46.18$39.82Production of Presence is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, one of the most consistently original literary scholars writing today. It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary... -
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry by Andrew Hodgson
RRP: $33.58$29.99At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the... -
Literary Theory - an Introduction 2E Revised by Terry Eagleton 9781405179218
RRP: $39.80$35.39A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: $60.80$47.96Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... -
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
RRP: $42.00$30.01'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $23.08$16.32'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,...