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Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: £70.00£63.74Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
Edward Said by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: £25.99£22.63Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political... -
Key Terms in Literary Theory by Mary Klages 9780826442673
RRP: £21.99£21.89This is a guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable. Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often... -
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World by Patricia Akhimie 9780367593438
RRP: £41.99£36.75Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to... -
Pregnancy Test by Prof. Karen Weingarten
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object 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... -
Cannibalism and the Colonial World by Francis Barker 9780521629089
RRP: £38.99£32.28In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical and cultural significance of western fascination with the... -
Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Destruction William Ray (Reed College, Portland) 9780631134589
RRP: £40.95£35.89This book is both a guide to, and interpretation of, the course of modern literary theory. Exploring the various theories of reading which have informed post-war literary criticism, it shows that for all the fervour of current debate about new movements... -
The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £19.99£17.54This 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... -
Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality by Jonathan Basile 9781947447509
RRP: £19.00£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447509Author Jonathan BasileFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Literary Theory for Beginners by Mary Klages 9781939994608
RRP: £12.99£11.37Apologies 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 -
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge by Natalia Cecire 9781421433776
RRP: £30.50£29.72A 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... -
Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method by Kenneth Burke
RRP: £33.00£26.61From 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... -
Children's Literature: New Approaches by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein 9781403917386
£55.34Children's Literature: New Approaches is a guide for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of children's literature. It is structured through critics reading individual texts to bring out wider issues that are current in the field. Includes... -
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology Wolfgang Iser 9780801845932
RRP: £25.00£23.94"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... -
A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065533
RRP: £30.00£29.25Perhaps 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... -
Literature and Moral Understanding: A Philosophical Essay on Ethics, Aesthetics, Education, and Culture by Frank Palmer 9780198242321
RRP: £130.00£112.92Recent philosophical discussion about the relation between fiction and reality pays little heed to our moral involvement with literature. Frank Palmer's purpose is to investigate how our appreciation of literary works calls upon and develops our capacity... -
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... -
The Distinction of Fiction by Dorrit Cohn
RRP: £23.00£20.75Winner 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 Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 Dorothy J. Hale (University of California, Berkeley) 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,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville
RRP: £22.99£19.56This 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... -
Why We Need the Humanities: Life Science, Law and the Common Good by Donald Drakeman 9781137497468 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99£9.99An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions,... -
Why We Need the Humanities: Life Science, Law and the Common Good by Donald Drakeman 9781137497468
RRP: £24.99£19.04An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions,... -
Genres in Discourse by Tzvetan Todorov 9780521349994
RRP: £39.99£33.26This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and ask such questions as: What is literature? What is... -
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou 9780230594630
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates... -
After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century by Jean-Michel Rabate 9781108444521
RRP: £22.99£17.46This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his... -
Belles-Lettres: Writings of Hijab Imtiaz Ali by Sascha A. Akhtar 9780190132644
RRP: £51.00£46.18This work is a translation of Hijab Imtiaz Ali's work 'Adab-e-Zareen' (1936) that contains 47 pieces of short writings that, although Ali herself categorized as short stories, are more in the nature of prose-poems that dwell on metaphysical themes of... -
Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future by Na Na 9780312223090
RRP: £64.99£44.97Method Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. It has not only shaped important schools of acting, but has been a fundamental constant of all American acting. This insightful volume explores Method... -
Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough by Soren Brier
RRP: £35.00£31.14A 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... -
Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism by Ursula K. Heise 9780521555449
RRP: £44.99£38.14In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in transportation, communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a different culture of time in Western societies. The radical transformation in our understanding and... -
Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization by George P. Landow
RRP: £30.50£27.77George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was one of the first scholars to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual... -
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
RRP: £24.99£21.67In 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: £21.99£19.19This 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 Nicholas Harrison (Kings College, London) 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... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £21.99£19.19Is 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... -
Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place by Dara Downey
RRP: £43.00£39.64Landscapes 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... -
Climate Change Literacy by Julia Hoydis 9781009341998
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely... -
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance by Celia Britton 9780813918495
RRP: £24.95£23.99Edouard Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Since he is known primarily as a novelist and poet, his theoretical essays have so far remained largely unread by the English-language theorists in this... -
Ecosemiotic Landscape: A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities by Almo Farina
RRP: £17.00£14.72The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: £20.99£18.37Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most...