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Critique of Critique by Roy Ben-Shai 9781503632684
RRP: £76.00£66.15What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg 9781503631144
RRP: £81.00£70.41In this elegant and personal new work, Michael Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the... -
The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy by Mark Christian Thompson 9781503631137
RRP: £108.00£93.40How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological conception of racist police violence? In this important new work, Mark Christian Thompson attempts to answer these... -
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman 9781503630482
RRP: £108.00£93.40Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions -... -
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses by Niklaus Largier 9781503630437
RRP: £108.00£93.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503630437Author Niklaus LargierFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007–2017 by Hayden White 9781501773587
RRP: £116.00£100.62The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9781501770777
RRP: £25.99£22.49In The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints of autobiography. Astute and compelling readings of... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9781501770760
RRP: £116.00£100.22In The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints of autobiography. Astute and compelling readings of... -
The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention by Garrett Stewart 9781501761409
RRP: £23.99£21.89In The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the best literary writing is founded. Emerging out of... -
OK by Dr. Michelle McSweeney 9781501367182
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or... -
Bicycle by Dr Jonathan Maskit 9781501338090
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the... -
Cosmopolitanisms by Bruce Robbins 9781479829682
£89.88An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a... -
Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere by Pheng Cheah 9781478016687
RRP: £94.00£81.88The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the... -
Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay 9781478016229
RRP: £90.00£78.08In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and... -
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr 9781478015123
RRP: £81.00£70.41In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationship between print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial custom house. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs... -
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony by Jill Jarvis 9781478011965
RRP: £92.00£79.77The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis examines the power of literature... -
Gramsci in the World by Roberto M. Dainotto 9781478007999
RRP: £92.00£79.77Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have offered concepts, categories, and political solutions that have been applied in a variety of social and political contexts, from postwar Italy to the insurgencies of the Arab Spring. The contributors to Gramsci in... -
History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene by Ian Baucom 9781478007876
RRP: £85.00£73.81In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of... -
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Freeman 9781478005049
RRP: £92.00£79.77In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time... -
The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man" by Kandice Chuh 9781478000709
RRP: £90.00£78.08In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that... -
Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel by Nicole Mansfield Wright 9781421433738
RRP: £80.50£71.15As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of... -
Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism by Brad Evans 9781421432694
RRP: £30.50£27.37Restoring proto-modernist little magazines-known as ephemeral bibelots-to the scholarly canon.Emanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as "ephemeral bibelots."... -
Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism by Brad Evans 9781421431550
RRP: £80.50£71.15Emanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as "ephemeral bibelots." For a time, it seemed that all the young bohemians passing through Paris started... -
Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature by Andrew Franta 9781421427515
RRP: £47.50£41.97How eighteenth-century writers stretched systems designed to explain social relations to their breaking point, showing the flaws in their design.The Enlightenment has long been understood-and often understood itself-as an age of systems. In 1759, Jean Le... -
Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing by Sarah Allison 9781421425627
£45.73What is to be gained by reading George Eliot's Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags-those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison's Reductive... -
Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive by Daniel Shore 9781421425504
RRP: £43.00£38.52A groundbreaking study of how abstract linguistic signs circulate in literature, intellectual history, and popular culture.Linguistic forms are essential to meaning: like words, they make a semantic contribution to the things we say. We inherit them from... -
Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies by Jason R. Rudy 9781421423920
RRP: £43.00£38.12Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New... -
Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic by Angus Fletcher 9781421419343
RRP: £43.00£38.52For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two... -
Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism by John N. Duvall 9781421417387
£33.62Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the... -
Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England by Professor Mary Thomas Crane 9781421415314
£46.03During the scientific revolution, the dominant Aristotelian picture of nature, which cohered closely with common sense and ordinary perceptual experience, was completely overthrown. Although we now take for granted the ideas that the earth revolves... -
Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer by Josh Epstein 9781421415239
RRP: £47.50£42.37When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist... -
Literature in the Ashes of History by Cathy Caruth 9781421411545
£47.99Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own... -
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch by Daniel Tiffany 9781421411453
£44.73Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry - a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and... -
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph 9781421446981
RRP: £29.00£26.08How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with... -
Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture by Christopher Kempf 9781421443560
RRP: £29.00£26.08The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental... -
Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture by Christopher Kempf 9781421443553
RRP: £83.00£73.31The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental... -
Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson 9781421441962
RRP: £84.50£74.61What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians... -
Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century by Paula R. Backscheider 9781421441672
RRP: £84.50£75.01A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441368
RRP: £30.50£27.37Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441351
RRP: £80.50£71.15Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In...