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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... -
Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780190857790
RRP: £83.00£73.28Cognitive cultural theorists have rarely taken up sex, sexuality, or gender identity. When they have done so, they have often stressed the evolutionary sources of gender differences. In Sexual Identities, Patrick Colm Hogan extends his pioneering work on... -
Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture by Andrew Bradstock 9780333802533
RRP: £89.99£89.87In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary... -
Meredith and the Novel by Neil Roberts 9780333675946
RRP: £89.99£89.87Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine... -
Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel by E. Sorensen 9780230252622
RRP: £44.99£44.97Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed... -
Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama by Ivo Kamps 9780521561556
RRP: £90.00£67.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Literary Meaning: Reclaiming the Study of Literature by Wendell V. Harris 9780333640159
£43.03Today's student of literature is faced with an overwhelming variety of critical approaches. The need to evaluate their usefulness in furthering our understanding of literature is therefore a growing concern. In Literary Meaning, Wendell V. Harris... -
Debating Orientalism by Anna Bernard 9780230303522
RRP: £44.99£44.97Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's... -
The Language, Discourse, Society Reader by Denise Riley 9780333763728
RRP: £89.99£89.87For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous... -
Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics by Juliet Sychrava 9780521131643
RRP: £30.99£23.80Schiller to Derrida is a historical critique of literary theory in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Starting with the work of Kant and Schiller, it traces an idealist tradition through nineteenth-century Romantic theory (including... -
Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights by Wendy L. Bowcher 9780230251632
RRP: £89.99£89.87A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts. The illuminating insights enhance our understanding of how language and... -
Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida by Bryan Reynolds 9780230008298
RRP: £44.99£44.97Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have greatly influenced the development of present-day... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 11 1942-43 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067850
RRP: £42.99£36.19Scrutiny 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... -
Jesse's Lineage: The Legendary Lives of David, Jesus, and Jesse James by Jennifer L. Koosed 9780567657459
£38.14Jesse's Lineage explores the interconnections between David, Jesus, and Jesse James. All three of these figures evoked complicated and conflicted reactions from their contemporaries - considered criminals by some, saviors by others. David lives the life... -
Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald by Alexis Grohmann 9780230247987
RRP: £44.99£44.97With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen... -
Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms by Raymond Tallis 9780312128654
RRP: £89.99£89.87'Vast in its intellectual scope, it should induce not so much sleep as controversy, whether literary or scientific, philosophical or political. It skims the oceans of academe in a manner accessible to the educated public, informed and cogently argued,... -
Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siecle: Making a Name for Herself by F. Elizabeth Gray 9780230361713
RRP: £44.99£44.97As 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... -
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination by Avril Horner 9780333643334
RRP: £89.99£89.87Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du... -
The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary by A. Gavin 9780230348271
RRP: £44.99£44.97The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and... -
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory by Ruth Ronen 9780521450171
RRP: £90.00£67.25The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth... -
Double Agent: The Critic and Society by Morris Dickstein 9780195111378
RRP: £42.99£31.79Double Agent is a watershed in the recent revival of interest in the role of the public critic and intellectual who writes about culture, politics, and the arts for an intelligent general audience. Offering acute portraits of critics both famous and... -
Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein by Alex Goody 9780230500495
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural... -
The Death of the Playwright?: Modern British Drama and Literary Theory by Adrian Page 9780333513156
RRP: £89.99£89.87The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama. In addressing the questions of power, subjectivity,... -
Marvell and Liberty by Warren Chernaik 9780333725856
RRP: £44.99£44.97Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light. Uniquely, it gives equal attention to the full range of Marvell's writings. Marvell is a writer deeply implicated in the... -
Locating Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature: Exiles at Home by Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya 9780230621855
RRP: £44.99£44.97This innovative study examines the work of exiles from the Soviet Union who returned to a reformed post-Soviet Russia to initiate narrative processes of self-definition oriented toward a readership and nation seeking self-identity, all at a time of... -
The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory by Jay Clayton 9780195083736
RRP: £60.00£59.16The Pleasures of Babel acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual achievements of America's multicultural society. Arguing that the present is "a great period of writing," Jay Clayton relates novels from the... -
Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies by Mary Kennedy 9780313299278
£72.57The last 25 years have witnessed extraordinary growth in the academic specialization variously described as composition studies or rhetoric and composition. What was noticeable about the field in its infancy was a preoccupation with practice, a lack of... -
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive by E. Aston 9780230235496
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays... -
The Myth of Theory by William Righter 9780521100410
RRP: £30.99£23.80What is critical theory, and to what extent can it claim to exist as a free-standing entity independent of the object of enquiry? Is the much-discussed gulf between Anglo-Saxon empiricism and Continental post-structuralism more apparent than real? In The... -
Rethinking Victorian Culture by J. John 9780312226794
RRP: £89.99£89.87At the cusp of literary and cultural studies, this wide-ranging critical anthology reevaluates Victorian culture in the light of the literature of the period and vice versa. Also, essays by eminent and emerging Victorianists offer a reassessment,... -
Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System by Dr. Robert T. Tally 9780230391895
RRP: £54.99£54.73The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is... -
Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama by Christina Wald 9780230547124
RRP: £89.99£89.87Hysteria, trauma and melancholia are not only powerful tropes in contemporary culture, they are also prominent in the theatre. As the first study in its field, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia explores the characteristics and concerns of the Drama of... -
Teaching Theory by Richard Bradford 9780230520738
RRP: £44.99£44.97Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates... -
Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments, and Th by Lois E Bueler 9780814250747
£32.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250747Author Lois E BuelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 472g -
Knowledge and Censorship by I. Stavans 9781349539628
£18.09This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the... -
Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere by A. McCann 9780312216450
RRP: £44.99£44.97Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault,...