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A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons by Christian Haines 9780823286942
£81.48Critics 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
£89.14Sophistry, 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
£20.84The 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
£96.81Frontier: 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
£78.08In 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
£20.84The 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
£73.81Over 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
£84.03Challenging 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
£84.43Thinking 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
£89.54In 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
£79.77In 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
£19.19In 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... -
The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory by Andrew Cole 9780822346524
£79.77This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age"... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793602
£90.88Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism,... -
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology by John Pier 9780814256046
£42.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256046Author John PierFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity by Marshall Wise Alcorn 9780814706657
£24.14What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault,... -
Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity by Marshall W. Alcorn 9780814706145
£89.88What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault,... -
City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures by Barbara Buchenau 9780814215524
RRP: £59.95£56.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215524Author Barbara BuchenauFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Narrative in the Anthropocene by Erin James 9780814215074
£77.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215074Author Erin JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature by Maria Nikolajeva 9780810842502
RRP: £117.00£107.46Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to... -
Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory by Bella Brodzki 9780804755429
RRP: £30.00£23.09Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration-indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions-rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting the terms of one language into another. Brodzki... -
The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments by Anke K. Finger 9780801895821
RRP: £100.00£90.01In The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork, artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term "... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895548
RRP: £35.00£32.34Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were... -
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage by Lubomir Dolezel 9780801894633
RRP: £65.00£57.70With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomir Dole el reexamines the claim-made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White-that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history." Dole el rejects this assertion... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801887468
£31.64This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major... -
Theories of Memory: A Reader by Michael Rossington 9780801887291
RRP: £37.00£34.84Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students of literature will be able both to broaden their knowledge of contemporary theoretical perspectives and to... -
The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 by David Marshall 9780801882333
£41.97Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested... -
The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading by Helen Rugueiro Elam 9780801881879
RRP: £60.00£54.98Over the past four decades, Geoffrey Hartman's voice has been one of the most important and profound in contemporary literary theory. Most noted for his scholarship on Wordsworth and Romanticism, Hartman developed throughout his work an original... -
The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot by Kevin Hart 9780801879623
£41.97One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's... -
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject by Carolyn J. Dean 9780801499548
£15.07Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular... -
Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death by Laura E. Tanner 9780801473135
£27.36"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."-from the Introduction American popular culture... -
Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture by Marvin A. Carlson 9780801422546
£47.19"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban... -
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio 9780745648637
RRP: £52.00£41.01With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
£27.74Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley,... -
Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle by Michelle Zerba 9780691603247
£35.32Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy,... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691183343
£23.29Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the... -
The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher 9780691115726
£27.74Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will... -
Writing Outside the Nation by Azade Seyhan 9780691050997
£35.32Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected... -
Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity by William Kuskin 9780268206758
£78.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268206758Author William KuskinFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow 9780231188364
£74.11Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability-such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive...