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Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen 9781421440873
$163.47The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced... -
Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind by Joshua Gang 9781421440842
RRP: $156.98$138.74What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of... -
Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser 9781421439518
RRP: $156.98$138.74Despite 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... -
The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature by Jessie Reeder 9781421438061
RRP: $156.98$138.74An 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... -
Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong 9781421437743
$164.68This 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 by Tony Bennett 9781405156998
$82.99Critical 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,... -
A Said Dictionary by R. Radhakrishnan 9781405183789
$130.88This 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 by Niall Lucy 9781405150774
$159.84A 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... -
Living with Theory by Vincent B. Leitch 9781405175296
$200.67In 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... -
Fielding, Dickens, Gosse, Iris Murdoch and Oedipal Hamlet by Douglas Brooks-Davies 9781349203628
RRP: $78.00$69.15Apologies 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: Memory, Text and Community by A. Gordon 9781349451661
$93.50Writing 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... -
Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siecle: Making a Name for Herself by F. Elizabeth Gray 9781349348350
$93.64As 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... -
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics by S. Allen 9781349320424
$93.29This 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... -
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City by Julian Wolfreys 9781349284382
$93.74This 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... -
Christopher Caudwell: Towards a Dialectical Theory of Literature by Christopher Pawling 9781349203420
RRP: $78.00$69.01Apologies 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 -
The Literature of Region and Nation by Ronald P. Draper 9781349197231
RRP: $82.88$77.79Apologies 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 -
Perspectives on Literature and Society in Eastern and Western Europe by George F. Cushing 9781349197002
RRP: $82.88$77.18Apologies 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 -
Fictional Discourse and Historical Space by Andrew Wright 9781349185665
RRP: $68.25$51.97Apologies 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 -
Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope by Allan Ingram 9781349181667
RRP: $78.00$57.02Apologies 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 -
Words After Speech: A Comparative Study of Romanticism and Symbolism by Paul Coates 9781349180264
RRP: $78.00$53.06Apologies 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 -
The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118781050
$160.11This 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... -
Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar 9781118780992
$224.50This 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... -
A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature by Shirley Chew 9781118652350
$90.48Taking 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... -
Living Space in Fact and Fiction by Philippa Tristram 9781032744483
RRP: $214.50$186.24First 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... -
Sheer Fiction: v. 2 by Paul West 9780929701080
RRP: $31.20$28.24Apologies 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. -
The Power Of Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory by Allen Thiher 9780838637524
$169.67Apologies 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 -
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England by Jordan Kirk 9780823294466
RRP: $200.85$173.82Apologies 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 -
A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons by Christian Haines 9780823286959
RRP: $54.58$47.07Critics 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... -
A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons by Christian Haines 9780823286942
RRP: $183.30$158.89Critics 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... -
Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin 9780823285754
RRP: $200.85$173.82Sophistry, 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... -
Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar by Jacques Khalip 9780823279555
RRP: $46.78$40.64The 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... -
Kant on the Frontier: Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth by Geoffrey Bennington 9780823275977
RRP: $218.40$188.78Frontier: 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,... -
Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty by Emmanuel Alloa 9780823275670
RRP: $175.50$152.26In 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: Partitions, Borders, Repetition by Jennifer Yusin 9780823275465
RRP: $46.78$40.64The 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... -
How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780823263806
RRP: $165.75$143.93Over 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... -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek: SIC 10 by Russell Sbriglia 9780822363033
RRP: $189.15$163.86Challenging 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 by Ranjan Ghosh 9780822361541
RRP: $189.15$164.64Thinking 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... -
What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah 9780822360780
RRP: $200.85$174.60In 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... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja 9780822360483
RRP: $179.40$155.55In 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... -
The Theorist's Mother by Andrew Parker 9780822352327
RRP: $42.88$37.42In 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...