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Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky 9781478025382
RRP: $46.18$40.30In Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for... -
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan by Gilbert D. Chaitin 9780521497657
RRP: $65.08$55.50This 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... -
Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies by Crystal Bartolovich 9780521890595
RRP: $79.78$65.75At a time when even much of the political left seems to believe that transnational capitalism is here to stay, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies refuses to accept the inevitability of the so-called 'New World Order'. By giving substantial... -
The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded by Robert Scholes 9780195151756
RRP: $53.53$42.84For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert... -
Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Deborah E. McDowell
$56.55Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among... -
Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible by Stephen Prickett 9780521445436
RRP: $189.00$142.07During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the... -
Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory by Bella Brodzki 9780804755429
RRP: $50.38$43.76Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration-indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions-rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting the terms of one language into another. Brodzki... -
Subjective Criticism by David Bleich
RRP: $81.90$72.83Originally published in 1981. The meaning and objectives of literature, argues David Bleich, are created by the reader, who depends on community consensus to validate his or her judgements. Bleich proposes that the study of English be consciously... -
Edward Said: A Critical Introduction Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent University, Turkey) 9780745620190
RRP: $37.78$33.68Edward 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... -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson
RRP: $46.18$40.30Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop
RRP: $41.98$36.83Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common... -
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind Benjamin H. Ogden (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA) 9780815377283
RRP: $77.68$68.31Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a... -
Writing Outside the Nation by Azade Seyhan 9780691050997
RRP: $94.50$74.17Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser
RRP: $64.05$57.48Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as... -
Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais 9781108426244
$220.58Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes... -
The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin
RRP: $52.48$45.51The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hoelderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's... -
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity by Giovanni Manetti
RRP: $58.78$50.69"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." -Umberto EcoAvailable in English for the first time is... -
Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840 by Thomas Pfau 9780801881978
$126.04This large and ambitious study reinterprets the evolution of British and German Romanticism as a progress through three successive 'moods.' By this term Pfau here means emotion "read in its embodied manifestation as the 'voice' of a historical moment,... -
Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies by Paul Jay 9780801476075
RRP: $46.18$40.30As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their... -
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice Scott Wilson (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631185338
RRP: $86.00$75.37In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they now constitute the new academic order. Scott Wilson... -
Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play by Jennifer DeVere Brody
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in... -
Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object by John Mowitt 9780822312734
RRP: $46.18$40.30The concept of textuality in recent decades has come to designate a fundamentally contested terrain within a number of academic disciplines. How it came to occupy this position is the subject of John Mowitt's book, a critical genealogy of the social and... -
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy by Geoffrey H. Hartman
$56.55"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... -
Laruelle: A Stranger Thought Anthony P. Smith 9780745671239
RRP: $35.68$31.96Francois Laruelle s non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle s work in the English-speaking world,... -
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines by Jacques Lezra 9781137591890
RRP: $52.48$41.43Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the... -
The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE by William M. Reddy 9780226706276
RRP: $84.00$81.80In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a... -
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
RRP: $94.50$83.12In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group-the foremost avant-gardists of their time-participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling... -
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: $42.00$25.07Apologies 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 *... -
Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning by Nouri Gana 9781611485783
RRP: $94.50$82.93By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying... -
Magical Realism and Literature by Christopher Warnes 9781108426305
$210.23Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin... -
Cell Tower by Steven E. Jones
RRP: $20.98$16.11Object 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 Object of Literature by Pierre Macherey 9780521476782
RRP: $65.08$53.45This 1995 book by Pierre Macherey was his first dealing with literature and theory since his seminal A Theory of Literary Production. Continuing the project of Althusserian theory, Macherey engages in a series of close exegeses of classical texts in... -
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road by Catherine Liu 9780816648009
RRP: $46.18$41.14Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud's landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists, and literary critics... -
Correspondence 1930-1940 Gretel Adorno 9780745636696
RRP: $126.00$109.94'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his... -
Barbara Wright: Translation as Art by Debra Kelly
RRP: $60.88$40.40Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the... -
The Concept of Modernism by Astradur Eysteinsson
RRP: $56.68$48.97The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of... -
Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing Wallace Chafe 9780226100548
RRP: $69.30$67.31In this text, the author demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech, as well as written fiction and... -
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale Veronica L. Schanoes 9781138248076
RRP: $113.38$98.43At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne... -
Notes on Thought and Vision by H. D. 9780872861411
RRP: $16.78$14.43Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences... -
Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 by Suzanne Hobson 9780230275393
RRP: $94.48$94.44The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates...