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The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg
RRP: $46.78$46.41A 2019 Prose Award Finalist What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close... -
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture by Bernard Bergonzi 9780198112617
$63.82What 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... -
Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy by Diana Fuss
RRP: $38.98$35.45In 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,... -
Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" by Jane Chance 9781349679867
RRP: $48.73$47.48This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien's life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized-namely, the Other... -
Cosmopolitanisms by Bruce Robbins 9781479863235
RRP: $48.73$42.26An 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... -
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert by Robert S. Hatten 9780253344595
RRP: $85.80$75.54"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely... -
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature by Maria Nikolajeva 9780810848863
RRP: $118.95$103.66Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to... -
Remote Control by Caetlin Benson-Allott
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object 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... -
Dream Notes Theodor W. Adorno (The Frankfurt School) 9780745638300
RRP: $78.00$68.39"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... -
Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere by Pheng Cheah
RRP: $44.83$39.02The 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... -
Q. D. Leavis: Collected Essays: Volume 2: The American Novel and Reflections on the European Novel by Q. D. Leavis 9780521318259
RRP: $60.43$46.41Q. D. Leavis was one of the finest critics of the novel. Her published essays appeared as articles and reviews of remarkable trenchancy in Scrutiny (of which she was effectively co-editor with her husband F. R. Leavis), or as lectures or as introductions... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature Sonya Posmentier (Assistant Professor, New York University) 9781421437934
RRP: $51.68$49.35A 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... -
Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the Unconscious by Elizabeth Wright 9780745619682
$35.28This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.Book InformationISBN 9780745619682Author Elizabeth WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 314g -
Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield
RRP: $52.63$45.47Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members... -
Theories of Discourse: An Introduction Diane Macdonell (University of Glasgow, UK) 9780631148395
RRP: $74.00$65.05This 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... -
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby 9780813936901
$43.64The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past... -
Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies Ryan Bishop (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) 9780745647081
RRP: $31.18$28.10The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information... -
Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
$54.21How 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... -
Encounters: Conversations on Life and Writing Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653877
RRP: $29.23$26.48"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of... -
Geographical Imaginations: Literature and the 'Spatial Turn' by Indranil Acharya 9780192869043
RRP: $148.20$132.09Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses. But in... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop 9781107109049
RRP: $97.48$87.69In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Password by Martin Paul Eve
RRP: $19.48$17.92This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The open-access edition of this text was made possible by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust. Object... -
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals): Studies in Literary Translation Theo Hermans (University College London, UK) 9781138794771
RRP: $93.58$81.53First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research... -
Rethinking Writing by Roy Harris 9780826457981
$76.26The traditional Western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute for the spoken word. The eminent Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first to provide this... -
Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture by Robert Alter 9780300206524
$40.95In this illuminating book, one of our foremost literary critics views the much-debated question of the literary canon from an entirely new angle. Robert Alter explores the ways in which a range of iconoclastic twentieth-century authors have put to use... -
Proust's Latin Americans by Ruben Gallo 9781421413457
RRP: $76.05$67.63Part 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,... -
Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction by Patricia McKee 9780199333905
$124.94Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James. Throughout its chapters, the monograph deploys the dialectical notion of the "constellation" to read... -
Short Voyages to the Land of the People by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $42.88$37.42This 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... -
On Literary Worlds by Eric Hayot
RRP: $63.36$38.40Although 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... -
Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis by Richard Terdiman
RRP: $66.30$59.07This 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... -
The Theorist's Mother by Andrew Parker 9780822352327
RRP: $38.98$34.20In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its... -
Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer
RRP: $59.48$53.37How 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... -
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $43.88$43.64'About the AuthorAlbert J. Wehrle taught Russian at Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a traqnslator in Washington, D.C.ReviewsWith this critical study... the most exhaustive Marxist analysis and refutation of Russian... -
The Economy of Literature by Marc Shell
$49.65Why 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... -
The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James by Elsie B. Michie 9781421401867
RRP: $121.88$107.00It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded... -
Derrida and Autobiography by Robert Smith 9780521465816
RRP: $60.43$42.69The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not... -
The Classic Serial on Television and Radio by Robert Giddings 9780333713884
RRP: $175.48$175.25The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales... -
Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823270620
RRP: $46.78$40.64First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of... -
From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media by Silvio Gaggi 9780812216776
RRP: $46.78$44.64It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject-the self-is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras... -
The Language War by Robin Tolmach Lakoff
RRP: $48.75$38.20Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an...