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Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective: Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu by Nicolae Babuts
RRP: €160.65€139.56Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to Aristotle. It carries a wide range of meanings, including imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, and the presentation of self. In modern literary criticism, mimesis has... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop... -
Structuralism and Semiotics by Terence Hawkes 9780415321532
RRP: €35.69€31.70Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €32.07€25.43"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to... -
The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Marcus Boon
RRP: €27.36€23.32In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer... -
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Rolena Adorno
RRP: €10.70€7.87A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: €29.69€27.27Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: €23.79€21.05Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do' English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.In his lucid and engaging style, Robert... -
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction by Victoria Coulson 9781474480505
RRP: €24.98€20.46This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowen's work and the... -
Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: €27.36€23.32Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating... -
Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm by Rainer Funk
RRP: €27.36€23.93A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose... -
Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII by Nadia T. van Pelt 9780192863454
RRP: €22.60€21.31Seldom has a royal court invited such intensive study as that of Henry VIII, or become so prominent in popular culture. Nonetheless, Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII is committed to offering a fresh perspective on Tudor court... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.27€12.08A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full... -
Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: €10.70€7.68Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging... -
New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics by Diana H. Coole 9780822347729
RRP: €30.93€26.70New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: €20.22€14.26With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
Literary Devices by Amy Jones
RRP: €7.13€4.89What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing even better? Why not use these tricks all the time? This excellent little book, by English literature and... -
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
RRP: €23.79€22.37Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek... -
Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader by Terry Eagleton 9780631185819
RRP: €54.68€48.21Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading... -
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu 9781478019428
RRP: €26.17€22.36In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: €13.08€8.71In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style,... -
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
RRP: €20.81€15.01Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture... -
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: €28.55€24.29How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony... -
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith
RRP: €23.80€17.80Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers... -
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: €23.79€21.05In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original... -
Sound Objects by James A. Steintrager
RRP: €29.74€25.26Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive... -
Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures by Hannah McCann
€36.01This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of... -
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray
RRP: €27.37€18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533485Author Janet H. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: €11.89€8.46Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
The Sublime by Philip Shaw 9781138859647
RRP: €30.93€26.93Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly... -
The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Dr. Sean Burke
RRP: €36.89€30.52For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows... -
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine 9780691173436
RRP: €21.41€16.73Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of... -
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siecle by Jennifer Forrest
RRP: €47.59€41.72In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Leon Gerome's 1857 La Sortie du bal masque to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the... -
From Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Reimagining a Relationship by Rosemary Rizq
RRP: €29.74€25.95How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, explores what... -
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition by Maria Tatar 9780691182995
RRP: €22.60€17.98Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new... -
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth 9781421421650
RRP: €31.54€27.16In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple... -
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
RRP: €15.46€13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226134Author Jane AlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm * 20mm -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: €26.18€20.22From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212010
RRP: €49.92€43.71The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most...