Semiotics & Theory

Despite 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...

An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization.Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationSpanish colonization of Latin America came to an...

This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world-and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive...

Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett. The selections in the volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present,...

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. * Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key...

A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition...

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. * Argues that the field of theory in late postmodern consumer society has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349203628Author Douglas Brooks-DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 306g

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a...

As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction to the work lives of twelve such journalists, and each essay examines the career, writing and strategic...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry...

This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349203420Author Christopher PawlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349197231Author Ronald P. DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349197002Author George F. CushingFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349185665Author Andrew WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 173g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349181667Author Allan IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349180264Author Paul CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 296g

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. * Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that...

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established...

Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature...

First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist. The role of the house, in fact and fiction, tells us much about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701080Author Paul WestFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838637524Author Allen ThiherFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294466Author Jordan KirkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most...

Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most...

Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world's cultural, political, and...

The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While...

Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being-often violently-challenged, erased, or reinforced,...

In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty's thinking and a thorough...

The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the...

Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together...

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how...

Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do...

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of...

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called...

In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its...

This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern...

Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism,...