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Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy by Geoffrey H. Hartman
$46.19"Saving the Text" cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as literary event. Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey... -
The Jameson Reader by Michael Hardt 9780631202707
RRP: $80.53$70.91This book brings together key essays and excerpts from the broad spectrum of Frederic Jameson's writings, providing an accessible introduction to the intricacies of his thought and uncovering new and exciting aspects of his work.About the AuthorMichael... -
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: $34.31$21.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312280864Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Dream Notes by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745638300
RRP: $68.61$60.16"Dreams are as black as death." -Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes... -
Cell Tower by Steven E. Jones
$13.16Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the... -
The Semiotics of Theater by Erika Fischer-Lichte
$64.27"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." -Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the... -
A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose 9780521276566
RRP: $53.16$49.19This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor... -
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421412245
$61.20The study of what is collectively labeled "New Media" - the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology - has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field,... -
Edward Said: A Critical Introduction by Valerie Kennedy
RRP: $30.86$27.51Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new... -
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh 9781108722209
RRP: $41.15$34.94Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently... -
Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology by Calvin Thomas
$41.36The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called "theory" is to disturb everyone-to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed... -
Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland by Sean D. Moore
$87.46Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates... -
Short Voyages to the Land of the People by Jacques Ranciere
$35.75This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Ranciere approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines. In this... -
Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction by Baylee Brits
RRP: $56.59$18.49Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of... -
Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres by Rachael Scarborough King 9781421425481
$59.49Letters played a foundational role in facilitating the rise of print and popularizing new modes of writing in the long eighteenth century.In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the... -
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics by J. Daniel Elam
$40.00World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated... -
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader by Padmini Mongia
RRP: $65.16$57.94There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by Peter Marks 9783030886561
RRP: $205.82$186.25The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its... -
A Future for Criticism by Catherine Belsey 9781405169578
RRP: $125.13$107.82A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. * Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent... -
Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation and Immigration in Contemporary Europe by Gisela Brinker-Gabler 9780816624614 [USED COPY]
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Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin 9781405106962 [USED COPY]
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Who's Writing This?: Notations on the Authorial I with Self Portraits by Daniel Halpern 9780880014465 [USED COPY]
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All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction by Lilian R. Furst 9780822316329 [USED COPY]
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Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible by Richard A. Grusin 9780822310594 [USED COPY]
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Time / No Time: The Paradox of Poetry and Physics by Sean Haldane 9780957466906 [USED COPY]
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The Heart of All England: Literature, Culture, Politics, Language by Brian Lee 9780907839699 [USED COPY]
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The Discerning Reader: Christian Perspectives on Literature and Theory by David Barratt 9780851114453 [USED COPY]
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Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780195089752 [USED COPY]
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Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780195101249 [USED COPY]
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The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body by Alex Butchart 9781856495400 [USED COPY]
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Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century by G. Gabrielle Starr 9781421418223 [USED COPY]
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Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi by Lee Morrissey 9781403968203 [USED COPY]
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Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo: Art, Politics, and the Music of Ritual by Curwen Best 9783039117161 [USED COPY]
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Im Garten der Texte: Vortraege und Aufsaetze zur italienischen Literatur by Uta Felten 9783631660560 [USED COPY]
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A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman 9781405103213 [USED COPY]
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Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge 9780436210051 [USED COPY]
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Semiotics: The Basics by Daniel Chandler 9780415363754 [USED COPY]
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Literary Terms and Criticism by John Peck 9780333962589 [USED COPY]
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Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: A Reader by K. M. Newton 9780333677421 [USED COPY]
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Element Encyclopedia of Symbols by Udo Becker 9781852307813 [USED COPY]
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