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Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network Analysis by Roel Smeets 9781009180795
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009180795Author Roel SmeetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Writing Tudor Exploration: Richard Eden and West Africa by Matthew Dimmock 9781009045858
RRP: £17.00£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009045858Author Matthew DimmockFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies by Su Fang Ng 9781009045865
RRP: £17.00£14.72Portuguese explorations opened the sea-route to Asia, bringing armed trading to the Indian Ocean. This Element examines the impact of the 1511 Portuguese conquest of the port-kingdom of Melaka on early travel literature. Putting into dialogue accounts... -
Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies by Seodial Frank H. Deena 9780820462226
RRP: £59.80£48.48Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies is a pioneer in advancing the difficult but necessary argument of situating and centering Caribbean literature and criticism at the foundation of multicultural and... -
The Writer's Reader: Understanding Journalism and Non-Fiction by Susie Eisenhuth 9780521700337
RRP: £44.99£39.48What was happening behind the Tampa headlines? How do you force a big company to take responsibility for damaging the health of its workers? What do you do when you suspect a famous author is a fake? How does it feel to be on the receiving end of police... -
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America by Kenneth Mostern 9780521641142
RRP: £90.00£72.17Why 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... -
Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity by Richard Murphy 9780521632911
RRP: £90.00£81.43In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates... -
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World by Neil Lazarus 9780521624107
RRP: £90.00£81.03In 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... -
Cannibalism and the Colonial World by Francis Barker 9780521621182
RRP: £90.00£81.03In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical and cultural significance of western fascination with the... -
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory by Jane Adamson 9780521629386
RRP: £39.99£33.26Is 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... -
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture by Patrick McGee 9780521581301
RRP: £90.00£81.03This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies. It applies the theories of Adorno, Derrida, and Lacan to film studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept... -
Theorising Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression by Meili Steele 9780521571852
RRP: £90.00£81.03This 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 -... -
Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography by David McCooey 9780521567909
RRP: £31.99£29.16Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challenge to... -
The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy by Manfred Frank 9780521561211
RRP: £95.99£77.09The work of the German philosopher Manfred Frank has profoundly affected the direction of the contemporary debate in many areas of philosophy and literary theory. This present collection, first published in 1998, brings together some of his most... -
Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History by John Docker 9780521465984
RRP: £31.99£29.16In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the... -
New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 by Professor Anna Marie Smith 9780521459211
RRP: £30.99£25.45The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from... -
The Poetics of Personification by James J. Paxson 9780521445399
RRP: £90.00£81.03Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and... -
The Structure of Literary Understanding by Stein Haugom Olsen 9780521316316
RRP: £37.99£31.31How does a reader respond to a work of literature and how does he begin to evaluate it? Mr Olsen attempts to answer these and related questions. The book is in two parts. In the first three chapters, the author demolishes established theories that... -
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 1, Classical Criticism by George Alexander Kennedy 9780521300063
RRP: £138.00£113.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mill on Bentham and Coleridge by F. R. Leavis 9780521299176
RRP: £38.99£32.28John Stuart Mill described Bentham and Coleridge as 'the two great seminal minds' of early nineteenth-century England. Coleridge, who asserted the primacy of the transcendent imagination, was in a obvious sense the direct opposite of Bentham, the... -
Islam and Postcolonial Narrative by John Erickson 9780521101158
RRP: £37.99£31.31In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the 'third world' - Assia Djebar, Adelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie - all of whom have engaged in a critique of the relationship between Islam and... -
Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative by Andrew H. Miller 9780521068345
RRP: £34.99£29.35Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and their... -
Ethics, Theory and the Novel by David Parker 9780521070317
RRP: £37.99£31.31The virtual suppression of explicit ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the momentary triumph of a sceptical post Enlightenment reflective tradition over others vital to a full account of human and literary worth... -
The End of Literary Theory by Stein Haugrom Olsen 9780521061995
RRP: £37.99£31.31The essays in this collection are concerned with the philosophical problems that arise in connection with the understanding and evaluation of literature - such problems as the relationship between the work and the author (authorial intention), between... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida by Leslie Hill 9780521864169
RRP: £75.00£67.25Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said by Conor McCarthy 9780521864534
RRP: £54.00£48.50One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public... -
Resisting Representation by Elaine Scarry 9780195089646
RRP: £80.00£58.65Resisting Representation brings together some of the most provocative essays by leading scholar Elaine Scarry. Through her readings of texts by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others, Scarry examines the ability of language to accommodate... -
Countertexts: Reading Culture by Peter Pericles Trifonas 9780993895302
RRP: £19.08£16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993895302Author Peter Pericles TrifonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PosttextePublisher PosttexteWeight(grams) 318g -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 4 1935-36 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067867
RRP: £42.99£36.59Scrutiny 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... -
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology by John Pier 9780814214497
£97.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214497Author John PierFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese by Patrizia Lombardo 9780333696286
RRP: £44.99£44.97The city is an essential theme of modernity in literature, architecture, photography and film. This book first focuses on ardent reactions to the metropolitan explosion in the nineteenth century, with Baudelaire and Poe as key figures. More recent... -
Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies by Geoff King 9780333640357
RRP: £44.99£44.97An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory questioned by some... -
Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 by Claire A. Culleton 9780230601352
RRP: £44.99£44.97Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to... -
Elements of Criticism by Lord Kames Henry Home 9780898759419
RRP: £27.50£24.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898759419Author Lord Kames Henry HomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
Scarlet Letters: Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s by Nicholas White 9780333684306
RRP: £46.00£45.96Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have contributed to this substantial new collection of close... -
Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History by S. Rosenbaum 9780312213053
RRP: £89.99£89.87Much of the widespread interest in the Bloomsbury Group over the past quarter-century has been biographical, yet without the Group's works there would be little interest in their lives. The studies in literary and intellectual history and collected in... -
Hermeneutics: Writings and Lectures by Paul Ricoeur 9780745661216
RRP: £45.00£44.98Paul Ricoeur s contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongside Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. In addition to major works like The Conflict of... -
Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory by Daniel Punday 9780814255506
£35.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255506Author Daniel PundayFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere 9780333730416
RRP: £89.99£89.87In his 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata Lev Tolstoy declared war on human sexuality. Having fathered thirteen children by his wife and at least two children by peasant women, the great Russian writer now has the arrogance to suggest that people should... -
Semiosis, Marginal Signs and Trickster: A Dagger of the Mind by C. W. Spinks 9780333526040
RRP: £89.99£89.87As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation 'signifying nothing' because, like Macbeth, we think of them as daggers of the mind that raise questions about the reality of our signs, about signs as tools of creation and power, about the dark...