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Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 11 1942-43 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067850
RRP: $90.28$76.00Scrutiny 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
$80.09Jesse'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: $94.48$94.44With 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: $188.98$188.73'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: $94.48$94.44As 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: $188.98$188.73Daphne 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: $94.48$94.44The 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: $189.00$141.23The 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: $90.28$66.76Double 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $188.98$188.73The 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: $94.48$94.44Marvell 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $126.00$124.24The 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
$152.40The 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $65.08$49.98What 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: $188.98$188.73At 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: $115.48$114.93The 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: $188.98$188.73Hysteria, 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: $94.48$94.44Teaching 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
$69.01Apologies 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
$37.97This 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: $94.48$94.44Cultural 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,... -
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film by Teresa De Lauretis 9780230524781
RRP: $94.48$94.44Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.Book InformationISBN... -
The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable by Andrew N. Leak 9780333738870
$92.42A major new collection of essays examining the problems of representing the Holocaust in fiction. The essays assembled here deal with the relations between the discourses of fiction (or imaginative reconstruction), philosophy, historiography and theory;... -
Culture, Capital and Representation by Robert J. Balfour 9780230246454
RRP: $94.48$94.44With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault by Prof. Lisa Downing 9780521864435
RRP: $157.50$94.44French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge,... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review Vol 1 1932-33 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067782
RRP: $90.28$76.00Scrutiny 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... -
Technology and the Early Modern Self by A. Cohen 9780230609877
RRP: $94.48$94.44Cohen utilizes the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary literary and cultural studies to shed new light on the relationships between technologies and the people who used them during the early modern period.Book InformationISBN 9780230609877Author A... -
Atopological Trilogy: Deleuze and Guattari by Zafer Aracagok 9780692403723
RRP: $31.50$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692403723Author Zafer AracagokFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Dead Letter OfficePublisher Dead Letter OfficeWeight(grams) 95g -
Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 by Christopher Parkes 9780230364127
RRP: $94.48$94.44After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important... -
The Critic's Notebook. by Virginia Stallman 9780837193243
$174.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837193243Author Virginia StallmanFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History by S. Rosenbaum 9780333720424
RRP: $188.98$188.73Much 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... -
The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s by Paul Cobley 9780333776681
RRP: $94.48$94.44What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analysing seventies texts about crime,... -
Animals, Literature and the Politics of Representation by J. Simons 9780333745144
RRP: $188.98$188.73This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position, it asks the question, 'What would literary studies look like if we took animal rights seriously?' It offers critical surveys of the... -
Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship by Nicola Healey 9780230277724
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more... -
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock by Tom Cohen 9780521460132
RRP: $189.00$141.23The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism; but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994... -
Adieu Derrida by Costas Douzinas 9780230007147
RRP: $94.48$94.44In this book leading cultural commentators including Slavoj Zizek, J. Hillis Miller, Gayatri Spivak and Alain Badiou pay homage to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, revealing his influence and inspiration to their own work.Book InformationISBN... -
Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture, and the Romantic Nation by M. Kelsall 9780333698242
RRP: $188.98$188.73Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism is the first full-length study to examine how Jefferson, in the process of inventing the USA as the first new nation of the Romantic era, sought to find an appropriate imagery to represent the people, their...