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Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory by Cassandra Falke 9780230234802
RRP: £44.99£44.97Dealing with the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of... -
Scrutiny vol. 20 Index & Retrosp by F. R. Leavis 9780521067980
RRP: £30.99£26.43Scrutiny 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... -
Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism by Gary E. Day 9780312164195
£90.27This book offers a much needed reassessment of F.R. Leavis. Gary Day argues that post-structuralist theory has defined itself in opposition to Leavis when in fact there are certain parallels between the two types of criticism. Day also draws attention to... -
Deconstruction Reading Politics by Martin McQuillan 9780230536951
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in... -
Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism by Jean-Pierre Durix 9780312215859
RRP: £89.99£89.87Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that, in the New Literatures which are often... -
The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power by J. Jeffers 9780230602380
RRP: £44.99£44.97The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed... -
Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties by Jo Collins 9780230517714
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity,... -
Towards a Christian Literary Theory by Luke Ferretter 9780333964217
RRP: £44.99£44.97Most modern literary theory is explicitly anti-theological. This book states the case for a contemporary literary theory whose principles derive from Christian theology. Ferretter argues that it remains rationally and ethically legitimate to use... -
The Subject of Modernity by Anthony J. Cascardi 9780521423786
RRP: £30.99£21.89The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Our own self-styled postmodern age has seen no end to this debate, which now receives a major and wide-ranging intervention from the theorist and... -
Approaches to Literature through Genre by Lucille W. Van Vliet 9780897747738
£31.81This text aims to help teachers and librarians to stimulate their middle school students' reading curiosity. Suggested teaching methods for teaching specific genres, student activities, and professional and student resources are fully described... -
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader by Tom Cohen 9780521625654
RRP: £30.99£23.80The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work;... -
Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead by C. Davis 9780230507821
RRP: £89.99£80.03Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book... -
Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease by Clark Lawlor 9780230020030
RRP: £99.99£89.87This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance... -
Urban Identity and the Atlantic World by Elizabeth Fay 9780230341401
RRP: £44.99£44.97The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political... -
Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading: A Study of the Henry Williamson Society by Adam Reed 9780719084546
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. These men and... -
Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens by Clare McManus 9781403902603
RRP: £99.99£99.71Did the Stuart queens create their own courts, and can these courts shed new light on women's poetry, drama and performance? This book investigates the literature, theatre, patronage and commissioning of the courts of Anna of Denmark (1603-19) and... -
Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760: Treacherous Objects, Secret Places by Murray G. H. Pittock 9781137278081
RRP: £99.99£99.71Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical... -
Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse by James L. Battersby 9780313321665
£83.24Much of contemporary critical theory holds that meaning is relative and subjective. This book scrutinizes the principal assumptions and beliefs about mind, language, meaning, truth, and reality governing current debate and discussion not only in literary... -
Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity by Colin Graham 9780333675977
RRP: £44.99£44.97Ireland and Cultural Theory is a unique and timely collection offering the first major assessment of how theoretical readings of 'Ireland' and Irish culture have begun to question the grounds of debate in Irish studies. Contributions engage with the... -
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games by M. Mackey 9780230293007
RRP: £44.99£44.97Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end... -
The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume One: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste by J. Spiers 9780230284029
RRP: £44.99£44.97This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other... -
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film by Teresa De Lauretis 9780230275492
RRP: £49.99£44.97Teresa 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... -
Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies by Geoff King 9780312127060
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... -
Chomsky and Deconstruction: The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge by Christopher Wise 9780230110823
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language. The author reveals the connections between Chomsky's linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical... -
Key Terms in Semiotics by Bronwen Martin 9780826484567
£29.35What is semiotics? This highly interdisciplinary term is used in literary theory, film studies and linguistics, but what does it mean, and how can we use it? "Key Terms in Semiotics" provides exactly the information that a student needs when... -
Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968-98: Hardened to Death by Patrick Grant 9780333794128
RRP: £44.99£44.97During the Northern Irish Troubles of the past thirty years, a war of words has accompanied and interpenetrated with the actual conduct of violence in highly complex ways. This book considers how literature of the period engages and participates in this... -
Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction: Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910 by M. Miller 9780230355187
RRP: £44.99£44.97Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these... -
Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces by Bertrand Westphal 9780230110212
RRP: £89.99£89.87Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach... -
The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time by Gregory M. Colon Semenza 9780230100282
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.Book InformationISBN... -
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities by Jonathan Gottschall 9780230609037
RRP: £44.99£44.97Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be... -
The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature by Gary Weissman 9780814253748
£29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253748Author Gary WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 363g -
Entropology by Louis Armand 9780999153574
RRP: £23.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999153574Author Louis ArmandFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Anti-Oedipus PressPublisher Anti-Oedipus PressWeight(grams) 381g -
The Language, Discourse, Society Reader by Denise Riley 9780333763711
£90.27For 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... -
The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by M. Abbott 9780312294816
RRP: £99.99£99.71This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street... -
Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens by Julian Wolfreys 9780312214524
RRP: £89.99£89.87Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various... -
Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History by Professor Peter Buse 9780312217396
RRP: £89.99£89.87Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical essays to evaluate these facts and consider the... -
The Direction of Literary Theory by Steven Earnshaw 9780333655689
£35.22An initial proposition is made that literary theory is divided into two broad, antithetical camps - one where the focus is purely textual, the other where the focus is on context. Section One is devoted to resolving this central dichotomy by examining... -
Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism by Marcel Cornis-Pope 9780333514740
RRP: £89.99£89.87Starting from a comprehensive examination of current poststructuralist and sociosemiotic theories of narrative, this book formulates an interactive model of literary interpretation and pedagogy emphasising process, critical self-awareness and strategies... -
The Noir Thriller by Lee Horsley 9780333720455
£90.27What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of... -
Critical Assumptions by K. K. Ruthven 9780521318464
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book is an historical survey of some important theories of literary criticism, which is designed to introduce more advanced students of English and other European literature to the nature and origin of these theories and ultimately to help them...