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Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Nathan Snaza
RRP: £22.99£19.60In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial... -
Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis by Richard Terdiman
RRP: £38.00£34.73This book is about memory-about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural... -
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History by James McFarland 9780823245369
£46.39Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a... -
Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film by Peter Marks
RRP: £23.99£22.40Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on the utopian genre (which includes positive and negative worlds), this book offers an in- depth account of the... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature by Sonya Posmentier
RRP: £26.50£25.31A transformative literary history of black environmental writing.Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language AssociationAt the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response... -
Bird by Erik Anderson
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too... -
Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest by Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780822346425
RRP: £34.00£31.27Baroque New Worlds traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a... -
Writing Women's Literary History by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780801855085
RRP: £23.00£22.13By championing the recovery of "lost" women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past, women's studies and feminist theory have effected dramatic changes in the ways English literary history is written and taught. In Writing Women's Literary... -
The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £36.00£34.53This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern... -
Ecosemiotics: The Study of Signs in Changing Ecologies by Timo Maran
RRP: £17.00£15.24This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its pertinence for the study of today's unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be defined as the study of sign processes responsible for ecological phenomena... -
Hermeneutics: Writings and Lectures by Paul Ricoeur 9780745661223
RRP: £17.99£16.04Paul Ricoeur's contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongside Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. In addition to major works like The Conflict of... -
Jazz and American Culture by Michael Borshuk 9781009420198
RRP: £34.99£33.48Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis
RRP: £21.99£18.79The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have... -
The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE by William M. Reddy 9780226706276
RRP: £40.00£38.95In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a... -
Narratology in Practice by Mieke Bal
RRP: £24.99£22.22Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which... -
Aristotle's "Poetics" by Stephen Halliwell 9780226313948
RRP: £28.00£27.39This interpretation of Aristotle's "Poetics" seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and that it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier... -
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture by Bernard Bergonzi 9780198112617
RRP: £31.49£28.91What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to answer this frequently-raised question. With the advent of theory... -
Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer
RRP: £30.50£26.85How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become-with no help, and in record time-the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century?T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question... -
Cosmopolitanisms by Bruce Robbins 9781479863235
RRP: £27.99£23.66An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or... -
Beyond the Anthropological Difference by Matthew Calarco
RRP: £17.00£15.24The aim of this Element is to provide a novel framework for gaining a critical grasp on the present situation concerning animals. It offers reflections on resisting the established order as well as suggestions on what forms alternative, pro-animal ways... -
Remote Control by Caetlin Benson-Allott
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back... -
Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere by Pheng Cheah
RRP: £24.99£21.23The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the... -
Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Hope Chang 9780813942483
RRP: £25.95£21.04Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of exotic species-botanical and human-to... -
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era by Marc Shell
RRP: £26.50£22.82In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of... -
Literary Aesthetics: A Reader by Alan Singer 9780631208693
RRP: £46.95£40.94It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into... -
Allegory and Violence by Gordon Teskey
RRP: £80.00£68.37The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante's Commedia and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide range of literary, visual, and critical works in... -
The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng
RRP: £23.99£20.41In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and... -
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy by Diana Fuss
RRP: £21.99£19.87In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice,... -
The Significance of Theory by Terry Eagleton 9780631172710
RRP: £38.95£34.20Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture... -
Proust's Latin Americans by Ruben Gallo 9781421413457
RRP: £39.00£34.04Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Ruben Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth,... -
Notes on Thought and Vision by H. D. 9780872861411
RRP: £7.99£7.24Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences... -
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity by Giovanni Manetti
£31.10"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." -Umberto EcoAvailable in English for the first time is... -
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco 9780156011594
RRP: £24.95£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156011594Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning,... -
On Literary Worlds by Eric Hayot
£42.74Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this... -
Theories of Discourse: An Introduction by D. MacDonell 9780631148395
RRP: £37.95£33.36This is the first critical introduction to the theories of discourse advanced by Foucault, Althusser, PUcheux and Hindess and Hirst. Discourse theory proposes that in our daily activities the way we speak and write is shaped by the structures of power in... -
The Economy of Literature by Marc Shell
£25.46Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and... -
Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
£27.80How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This... -
Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey 9781478004103
RRP: £92.00£78.42In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature... -
Structuralism by John Sturrock 9780631232391
RRP: £37.95£33.36John Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. ... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture by Yvonne Griggs
RRP: £32.99£23.33From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to Alejandro Amenabar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation...