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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts by Frederick Luis Aldama 9780292721579
RRP: £50.00£28.91Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other... -
Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution by Peter Swirski 9780292721784
RRP: £45.00£25.77In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic... -
Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance by Jonathan Goldberg 9780804719582
RRP: £40.00£30.84A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Some 25 years ago Derrida called for a 'cultural graphology' which would study the material practices, institutions, and ideologies of writing. Goldberg takes up this call. . . . He adds a political edge by... -
The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination by Christopher Collins 9780812213607
RRP: £34.95£28.95Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that... -
Traffic Jams: Analysing Everyday Life Through the Immanent Materialism of Deleuze & Guattari by David R Cole 9780615767000
RRP: £18.00£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615767000Author David R ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm -
Gods & Heroes of the Media Age: From Captain Nemo to The X-Files by John David Ebert 9780985480295
RRP: £15.99£14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985480295Author John David EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Post Egoism MediaPublisher Post Egoism MediaWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto by Dj Readies 9780615612034
RRP: £19.00£15.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615612034Author Dj ReadiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 77g -
Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture by Todd W. Reeser 9780807892879
RRP: £35.00£34.69Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and... -
Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard by Roberto Campo 9780807892619
RRP: £35.00£34.69This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut... -
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide Kirby Morris 9780807846704
RRP: £55.00£53.64By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk... -
The Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Siecle des Lumieres by Julia De Pree 9780807892626
RRP: £30.00£29.34This study delineates a theory of epistolary epic that refutes historical notions of a siecle sans poesie. It argues that monophonic, epistolary texts written during the Ancien Regime both reflect and resist the classical legacy and at the same time... -
Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday by Lyn Hejinian 9780819580856
RRP: £26.95£18.16Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential... -
Does Literary Studies Have a Future? by Eugene Goodheart 9780299166540
RRP: £14.95£13.76An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study... -
Presenting the Past: Philosophical Irony and the Rhetoric of Double Vision from Bishop Butler to T. S. Eliot by Memorial University of Newfoundland 9780920604892
RRP: £15.00£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920604892Author Memorial University of NewfoundlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint English Literary StudiesPublisher English Literary... -
Beginning with the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief by Roger Lundin 9780801027260
RRP: £24.99£17.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801027260Author R LundinFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher Baker Publishing GroupWeight(grams)... -
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler 9780801487934
RRP: £25.95£16.82The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification-the rules and conventions that determine a... -
The Dynamics of Literary Response by Norman N. Holland 9780393007909
RRP: £26.95£19.79Reading a poem or a novel, seeing a play or a film, is a special kind of experience. Yet the essential nature of that experience has remained a mystery. Philosophers have discussed the writer's role, and critics the writer's craft, but there has been... -
A Study of Literature: For Readers and Critics by David Daiches 9780393002690
RRP: £21.95£16.07"Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of events which never in fact occurred?" The question is elementary - and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study, it is the elementary questions that are never answered... -
On Literature by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco 9780156032391
RRP: £19.95£15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032391Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 327g -
Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment, and Planet by Yvonne Reddick 9783031393884
RRP: £109.99£99.13Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place,... -
The Limits of Theory by Thomas M. Kavanagh 9780804717106
RRP: £32.00£24.15This collection of eight essays by some of today's most innovative and seminal thinkers argues that there is a limit beyond which the enterprise of literary theory becomes something different from what it presents itself as being. These writers ask, in... -
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States by Gregory L. Lucente 9780804728300
RRP: £30.00£22.57Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Though... -
The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No by Aaron Hillyer 9781623561710
£120.00In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and... -
Political Stylistics: Popular Language as Literary Artifact by Pascale Gaitet 9781032748863
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1992, Political Stylistics draws together ideas about society and language from a range of theorists including Pratt, Bourdieu, Goody and Watt, and Bakhtin, to establish a political stylistics: a way of studying the formal properties... -
Space Rover by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair 9781501399954
£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many... -
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon 9781501391118
£70.20Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what is emerging as perhaps the theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape - from the present, from history, from the existential -... -
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication by Marcel Danesi 9780802083296
£30.74Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is... -
Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding by Floyd Merrell 9780802037046
£64.85In Sensing Corporeally, Floyd Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms. Focusing on qualitative and analogical sensing, rather... -
Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide by Patrick Collier 9781350195059
RRP: £65.00£36.75Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson 9780822354031
£92.95This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History by Michael O'Sullivan 9781472568359
£38.14Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of... -
Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee by Vincent P. Pecora 9780268038991
£22.49In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the... -
Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function and Dynamics by H. L. J. Vanstiphout 9789042912991
£57.22It is apparent that every linguistic and literary tradition will wish to distinguish broad periods in its historical evolution. One way of demarcating such periods is by isolating and identifying dominant "repertoires" of texts, styles or types, which... -
From First to Third Via Cybersemiotics: A Festscrift Honoring Professor Soren Brier on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday by Thorkild Thellefsen 9788770710282
£24.52This is a festscrift made to honour the great scholarly work of Professor Soren Brier The festschrift contains articles written by international scholars within academic fields such as: semiotics, library and information science, 2. order cybernetics,... -
Dominik Tatarka: the Slovak Don Quixote: (Freedom and Dreams) by Maria Batorova 9783631668405
RRP: £40.90£33.50The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work... -
Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce by Leonardo F. Lisi 9780823245321
£39.58Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe 9780822345916
£81.48Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary... -
Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday by Lyn Hejinian 9780819580849
RRP: £70.50£64.63Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential... -
Mothering India: Women's Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History (1890-1947) by Susmita Roye 9780190126254
£76.09Mothering India addresses this lack and concentrates on early Indian women's fiction written between 1890 and 1947. It not only evaluates the influence of women authors on the rise of IWE, but also explores how they reassessed and challenged... -
Creativity in Its Contexts by Chris Morash 9781874675679
£5.59Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing...