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Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century by Michael D. Hurley
$127.48What is 'style', and how does it relate to thought in language? It has often been treated as something merely linguistic, independent of thought, ornamental; stylishness for its own sake. Or else it has been said to subserve thought, by mimicking,... -
Bakhtin Between East and West: Cross-cultural Transmission by Karine Zbinden
RRP: $96.75$95.78This book looks beyond the concepts of carnival and dialogue and traces the transformation of the Bakhtin Circle's thought from its introduction to the West in Julia Kristeva's seminal late-1960s theory of intertextuality, through Tzvetan Todorov's... -
Prodigal Sign: A Parable of Criticism by Kevin Mills
$131.08"The Prodigal Sign" sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This is not just because, as Derrida says, 'no practice is ever totally faithful to its... -
Reading Eco: An Anthology by Rocco Capozzi
RRP: $30.95$27.40"[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco... -
World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location by Flair Donglai Shi
RRP: $58.05$47.92By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls the international literary space, their power does not operate unilaterally and... -
Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction Prof. Mikko Tuhkanen (Texas A&M University, USA) 9781623563592
RRP: $32.24$28.10For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of... -
Body of Vision: Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind by Michael Sinding
RRP: $63.21$54.92In Body of Vision, Michael Sinding connects Northrop Frye's groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the human imagination with cognitive poetics - the cutting-edge school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science... -
The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary by Josh Toth
$37.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438430362Author Josh TothFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Limits of Critique Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA) 9780226293981
RRP: $76.11$73.05Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin by Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier
RRP: $32.91$28.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791445426Author Cyraina E. Johnson-RoullierFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton
RRP: $12.89$9.89Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls... -
On Signs Marshall Blonsky 9780801830075
RRP: $37.41$37.06Contributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Thomas A. Sebeok, and others.About the AuthorMarshall Blonsky has been involved in the teaching of... -
Critical Perspectives on Max Porter David Rudrum 9781032662367
RRP: $174.15$151.29Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study... -
Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture by Marvin A. Carlson
RRP: $38.69$34.19"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Vera J. Camden
RRP: $30.95$26.28The 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... -
The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $30.95$26.88During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and... -
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop
RRP: $25.79$22.63For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens 9780521716574
RRP: $33.53$28.37In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by... -
Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story by John Dominic Crossan 9780944344064
RRP: $16.71$16.59From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory, philosophy, theology and biblical studies, he demonstrates the... -
Against Deconstruction by John M. Ellis 9780691014845
RRP: $45.15$35.78"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program... -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: $34.83$27.17Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist... -
Latour and the Humanities by Rita Felski
RRP: $39.35$35.82How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities?In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the... -
The Postcolonial Unconscious by Neil Lazarus 9780521186261
RRP: $34.82$29.41The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need... -
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: $23.21$20.51In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials... -
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226321448
RRP: $36.12$35.33The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide by Michael Groden 9781421406398
RRP: $53.54$48.03Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory... -
Memory and Autobiography – Explorations in the Limits by Arfuch
RRP: $20.63$18.59This book by one of Latin America's leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate... -
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon
RRP: $40.64$36.93The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, ... -
Basil Bunting on Poetry by Basil Bunting
$37.89"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of... -
Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin 9780823285747
RRP: $33.53$29.01Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world's cultural, political, and... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Patricia Waugh 9780340573815
$51.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism by Terence Cave 9780198749417
RRP: $53.52$45.77To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food by J. Michelle Coghlan
RRP: $30.95$26.28This 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: $29.66$25.23This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how... -
Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher 9780226279350
RRP: $34.83$34.15For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and... -
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader by Kiernan Ryan 9780340614587
$34.09New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. Their conquest of Renaissance studies has escalated into global colonialisation of English and American literary history. A wealth... -
Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $12.89$9.89Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons
RRP: $25.79$22.82Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between... -
The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino 9780156932509
RRP: $27.08$19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156932509Author Italo CalvinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century by Paula R. Backscheider
RRP: $39.35$35.31A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century.During the long...