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Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies by Crystal Bartolovich 9780521890595
RRP: £37.99£31.31At 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: £25.49£20.40For 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... -
Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible by Stephen Prickett 9780521445436
RRP: £90.00£67.65During 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... -
Subjective Criticism by David Bleich
RRP: £39.00£34.68Originally 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... -
Postcolonial Bergson by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
RRP: £21.99£19.19Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial... -
Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies by Ryan Bishop 9780745647081
RRP: £15.99£14.41The 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... -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson
RRP: £23.99£20.84Recent 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... -
The Public Intellectual by Helen Small
RRP: £41.95£36.73New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.About the AuthorHelen Small is Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop
RRP: £21.99£19.19Drawing 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 by Benjamin H. Ogden
RRP: £36.99£32.53Through 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... -
The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin
RRP: £27.99£21.67The 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... -
The Black Feminist Reader by Joy James 9780631210078
RRP: £38.95£34.20Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements... -
A Companion to Narrative Theory by James Phelan 9781405184380
RRP: £39.95£36.04The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the fieldIncludes contributions from... -
Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840 by Thomas Pfau 9780801881978
£60.02This 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,... -
What Is Fiction For?: Literary Humanism Restored by Bernard Harrison 9780253014085
RRP: £29.99£24.54How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"?... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437613
RRP: £30.50£27.37How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells... -
Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin
£25.46When it was first published, Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge proved to be a seminal work in the psychoanalytic study of Faulkner's fiction, especially of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! This softcover reissue of John Irwin's... -
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy by Geoffrey H. Hartman
£26.93"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: £46.95£41.34This 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: £20.00£12.20Apologies 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: £45.00£39.49By 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... -
Dream Notes by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745638300
RRP: £40.00£35.07"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
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object 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
RRP: £36.00£27.76"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... -
The Object of Literature by Pierre Macherey 9780521476782
RRP: £30.99£25.45This 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 Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421412245
RRP: £39.00£35.68The 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: £17.99£16.04Edward 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... -
Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 by Suzanne Hobson 9780230275393
RRP: £44.99£44.97The 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... -
A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz
£90.27A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine... -
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory by Ranjit S. Dighe 9780275974190
£30.71The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated... -
Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology by Calvin Thomas
£24.11The 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
RRP: £58.00£50.99Renowned 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
RRP: £23.99£19.19This 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... -
Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination by Cyrus R. K. Patell 9780312233877
RRP: £44.99£44.97Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism... -
The Cassell Dictionary of Semiotics by Martin Bronwen 9780304706365
£38.14What is semiotics? What does it mean? How does it work? Over the past few decades, semiotics has increasingly gained popularity and yet, to many, the very term remains an enigma. This Dictionary of Semiotics is a much-needed reference book for the terms... -
Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction by Baylee Brits
RRP: £33.99£10.78Today, 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... -
The Poetics of Personification by James J. Paxson 9780521106313
RRP: £30.99£22.85Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and... -
English Literature in our Time and the University: The Clark Lectures 1967 by F. R. Leavis 9780521295741
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book was first published by Cambridge in 1979. It is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is in the first place a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university. Leavis is concerned with English Literature as a living reality,... -
Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres by Rachael Scarborough King 9781421425481
RRP: £39.00£34.68Letters 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
RRP: £26.99£20.84World 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...