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Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century by Theophilus Savvas 9781009287258
RRP: $145.80$131.39Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century re-assesses both canonical and less well-known literary texts to illuminate how vegetarianism and veganism can be understood as literary phenomena, as well as dietary... -
Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings by Federico Luisetti 9781009442787
RRP: $29.16$25.25The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western... -
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson 9781009299961
RRP: $34.29$28.85George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the... -
Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures by Jacob Jewusiak 9781009318365
RRP: $29.16$25.25Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals by Derek Ryan 9781009300049
RRP: $39.43$33.55The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging... -
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake 9781009321228
RRP: $145.80$131.39In Edible Arrangements, Elizabeth Blake explores the way modernist writing about eating delves into larger questions about bodily and literary pleasure. Drawing on insights from the field of food studies, she makes dual interventions into queer theory... -
The Philosophy of Literary Translation: Dialogue, Movement, Ecology by Clive Scott 9781009389952
RRP: $145.80$131.39While reading transforms texts through memories, associations and re-imaginings, translation allows us to act out our reading experience, inscribe it in a new text, and engage in a dialogic and dynamic relationship with the original. In this highly... -
The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas by Ronan McDonald 9781107124165
RRP: $128.65$116.19What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time... -
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century by Bashir Abu-Manneh 9781108429177
RRP: $128.65$116.19By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic,... -
Beckett and Buddhism by Angela Moorjani 9781316519691
RRP: $128.65$116.19Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and... -
The Practice of Theory: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy by Michael F. Bernard-Donals 9780521594332
RRP: $102.92$92.23Though theory has become a common language in the humanities in recent years, the relation between theoretical speculation and its practical application has yet to be fully addressed. In The Practice of Theory, Michael Bernard-Donals examines the... -
Literature and Race in Los Angeles by Julian Murphet 9780521801492
RRP: $102.92$92.23Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticized city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its classrooms, and one homogeneous visual language... -
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan by Gilbert D. Chaitin 9780521497282
RRP: $102.92$92.23This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens 9781032446929
RRP: $34.29$30.34Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer... -
Newspaper by Dr. Maggie Messitt 9781501392177
$13.16Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction... -
The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness by Wan-Chuan Kao 9781947447288
RRP: $37.74$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447288Author Wan-Chuan KaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law by Allen Mendenhall 9781611487930
$66.49This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes's literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's thought:... -
Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico by Jose David Saldivar 9780822350835
RRP: $49.74$47.17A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational"... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781409410003
RRP: $157.79$137.57Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris... -
Poetic License by Perloff 9780810108448
RRP: $42.80$42.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810108448Author PerloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 513g -
Relevance and Narrative Research by Matei Chihaia 9781498586825
RRP: $154.38$135.18"Relevance" is one of the most widely used buzz words in academic and other socio-political discourses and institutions today, which constantly ask us to "be relevant." To date, there is no profound scholarly conceptualization of the... -
Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World by Sharon Schuman 9781611496024
$66.49Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom-being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth-have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature,... -
Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration by Tara Pauliny 9781498523035
$130.04Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration uses transnational feminist rhetorical analyses to understand how the global force of neoliberalism infiltrates all parts of life from nation-state relationships to individual... -
Lawrence among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions by Carol Siegel 9780813933238
$66.28Carol Siegel challenges the standard representation of Lawrence in feminist criticism and places his work in the context of women's literary traditions.Book InformationISBN 9780813933238Author Carol SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University... -
The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies by Brooke Rollins 9780814255834
$62.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255834Author Brooke RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Figurally Colored Narration: Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature by Wolf Schmid 9783111357980
RRP: $29.14$21.39Figurally colored narration (FCN) is narrator’s discourse (whether in the first or third person) that adopts salient features of character’s text, mainly valuation and designation, without signaling the figural part in any way. Unlike free indirect... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities by Dr. James O’Sullivan 9781350452572
$48.01The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age... -
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing by Marilyn Sanders Mobley 9781439924310
RRP: $46.30$41.36Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of... -
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel by Jillmarie Murphy 9781611490503
$127.79Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early... -
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing by Marilyn Sanders Mobley 9781439924303
RRP: $189.54$156.30Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang 9780822342304
RRP: $44.58$39.90In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked... -
Speculative Facts by Quenton Miller 9789493148512
RRP: $42.88$29.31Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fiction This volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigms of knowledge-seeking: speculation, which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and... -
Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780820340166
RRP: $53.09$51.13Jerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic... -
Mask by Dr. Sharrona Pearl 9798765102404
RRP: $17.14$16.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry by Richard Deming 9781501720147
RRP: $60.04$38.77Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar... -
Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe: Translation, Dissemination and Mediality by Rita Schlusemann 9783110758481
RRP: $176.66$131.46This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and... -
Storytelling in Science and Literature by Margery Arent Safir 9781611486438
$130.88This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language-and storytelling in particular-deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel... -
The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games by Dr Gabriele Aroni 9781350341722
RRP: $49.73$37.08Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles... -
Frameworks by William Nelles 9781725285644
RRP: $82.33$49.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285644Author William NellesFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 152g -
The Textual Society by Edwina Taborsky 9780802071804
RRP: $48.01$42.80Semiotics - the study of the encoding of meaning - has so far been confined largely within the humanities, where it has forged a whole new way of understanding meaning and its construction. In this multidisciplinary study, Edwina Taborsky applies...