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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... -
Author, the Book and the Reader by Robert Giddings 9781871551013
£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551013Author Robert GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature by Nigel Fabb 9781839984792
£76.48This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The unifying characteristic of these 'strong experiences' is... -
Reaganism in Literary Theory: Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion by Jeremiah Bowen 9781785272783
£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272783Author Jeremiah BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
A Course in Cyborg Semiotics by Mick Howard 9781793626851
RRP: £77.00£67.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793626851Author Mick HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces by Edina Krompak 9781788923859
£35.48How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educational spaces and practices they inhabit? Building on enquiries into the linguistic landscapes of public... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev 9781684480913
£80.17Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
The Dialogic Self by Roxanne J. Fand 9781575910222
RRP: £113.00£104.14Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists.Book InformationISBN 9781575910222Author Roxanne J. FandFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University... -
New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life by Christopher Rovee 9781531505110
£99.88New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with... -
Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis by Jennifer Spitzer 9781531502089
£81.48Secret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer... -
The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin 9781531501686
£85.74The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s... -
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature by Annabel L Kim 9781517910877
£84.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517910877Author Annabel L KimFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson 9781503632745
£70.41Recent 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... -
Critique of Critique by Roy Ben-Shai 9781503632684
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
£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
RRP: £52.00£46.76What 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
£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
£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...