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The Problem of Literary Value by Robert J. Meyer-Lee
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature's defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values' ideological uses. Instead, arguing that... -
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader by Padmini Mongia
RRP: £37.99£33.78There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is... -
The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature by Michael Bryson 9780367494124
£49.36The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape. Offering contributions by leading international scholars, this volume seeks to define literature... -
The Traditional Theory Of Literature by Ray Livingston 9781015983182
RRP: £15.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015983182Author Ray LivingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 290g -
Roland Barthes by Martin McQuillan 9780333914571
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Jesse's Lineage: The Legendary Lives of David, Jesus, and Jesse James by Jennifer L. Koosed 9780567020949
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Conditions of Comparison: Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry by Ming Xie 9780826445186
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Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative by Matthew Clark 9780814214282
£110.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214282Author Matthew ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik Von Mossner 9780814213360
£110.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213360Author Alexa Weik Von MossnerFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212003
RRP: £109.95£109.91"The Zizek Reader" - which includes a Preface 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... -
A Selection from Scrutiny 2 Volume Paperback Set by Frank Raymond Leavis 9780521734813
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Blackness and Value: Seeing Double by Lindon Barrett 9780521621038
RRP: £90.00£72.17Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which 'value' operates, and asks if it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles. Testing these concepts by... -
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture by Patrick McGee 9780521589086
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Consequences of Enlightenment by Anthony J. Cascardi 9780521481496
RRP: £60.00£53.77What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of... -
Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders by Daniel Gunn 9780521386692
RRP: £30.99£28.28Daniel Gunn's aim is to investigate ways in which psychoanalytic writing and certain kinds of creative fiction can be seen to have common concerns, objectives and procedures. He examines the work of various psychoanalysts from Freud through to Lacan, as... -
The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel by David Simpson 9780521359023
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Q. D. Leavis: Collected Essays: Volume 3 by Q. D. Leavis 9780521318266
RRP: £42.99£36.19This third volume of Q. D. Leavis's essays brings together pieces on hitherto unexplored aspects of Victorian literature. Most of these date from towards the end of her life and are previously unpublished. There are also essays and reviews which appeared... -
Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres by Derek Attridge 9780521297226
RRP: £39.99£33.26Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is... -
Words into Rhythm: English Speech Rhythm in Verse and Prose by D. W. Harding 9780521134347
RRP: £37.99£31.31Critics take for granted the importance of rhythm in poetry and prose, above all its capacity for suggesting states of mind, especially emotional states. But they are seldom clear what range of effects rhythm can reasonably be credited with, nor even, at... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 17 1950-51 by F. R. Leavis 9780521068222
RRP: £40.99£36.19Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 12 1944-45 by F. R. Leavis 9780521068017
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Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History by Professor Peter Buse 9780333711439
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Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms by Raymond Tallis 9780333606438
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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus 9780521826945
RRP: £77.00£63.71The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key... -
Faking Literature by K. K. Ruthven 9780521669658
RRP: £37.99£31.31Literary forgeries are usually regarded as spurious versions of genuine literature. Faking Literature, first published in 2001, argues that the production of a literary forgery is an act that reveals the spurious nature of literature itself. Literature... -
Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine by Joe Cleary 9780521651509
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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America by Kenneth Mostern 9780521646796
RRP: £33.99£28.38Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In... -
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World by Neil Lazarus 9780521624930
RRP: £36.99£30.33In this wide-ranging study, Neil Lazarus explores the subject of cultural practice in the modern world system. The book contains individual chapters on a range of topics from modernity, globalization and the 'West', and nationalism and decolonization, to... -
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory by Jane Adamson 9780521620796
RRP: £90.00£77.09Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary... -
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen 9780521590488
RRP: £90.00£77.09In Ideology and Inscription Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory - Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin - Cohen... -
Theorising Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression by Meili Steele 9780521576796
RRP: £32.99£28.38This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a dialogical agent. By engaging with a wide range of leading political, philosophical, and critical thinkers -... -
Singularities: Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Adam Pepper 9780521573825
RRP: £90.00£77.09The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk by the apparently simple question 'What is a literary text?' Throughout the twentieth century the epistemological status of literature, the problem of language's claim to true... -
Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism by Ursula K. Heise 9780521554862
RRP: £90.00£77.09In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in transportation, communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a different culture of time in Western societies. The radical transformation in our understanding and... -
Rhetoric and Composition: An Introduction by Steven Lynn 9780521527941
RRP: £29.99£23.80Rhetoric and composition is an academic discipline that informs all other fields in teaching students how to communicate their ideas and construct their arguments. It has grown dramatically to become a cornerstone of many undergraduate courses and... -
Consequences of Enlightenment by Anthony J. Cascardi 9780521484909
RRP: £33.99£28.38What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of... -
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism by Steven Mailloux 9780521467803
RRP: £33.99£28.38The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in... -
Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Post-modernism by Colin Falck 9780521467513
RRP: £37.99£31.31Colin Falck's book has had a widespread influence since it first appeared in 1989. Hailed as a work that alters the way we think about literary theory and its institutionalisation in America and Britain, it is a philosophically informed account of the... -
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism by Robert Wess 9780521422581
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism by Michael F. Bernard-Donals 9780521466479
RRP: £30.99£25.45The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism,' 'marxism,' 'prosaics,' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The... -
Critical Conditions: Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations by Horace L. Fairlamb 9780521456654
RRP: £32.99£27.40The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges...