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British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 by D. Tucker 9781349317868
RRP: $87.73$79.13This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes... -
Modern Critical Thought: An Anthology of Theorists Writing on Theorists by D Milne 9780631220589
RRP: $226.10$196.13This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. * Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. *... -
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 by Hale 9781405107730
RRP: $231.95$203.42The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. * Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other... -
Obstruction by Nick Salvato 9780822360988
RRP: $46.78$40.64Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be... -
Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in Fiction by Linda Schermer Raphael 9780838639009
$199.80Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about... -
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 9780823278602
RRP: $218.40$188.78Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points... -
Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Michelle Neely 9780823288205
RRP: $54.58$47.07Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings... -
Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America by Jason Berger 9780823287758
RRP: $218.40$189.56In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal-humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms "xeno," which connotes... -
Postcolonial Bergson by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9780823285839
RRP: $163.80$142.27Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial... -
Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze by Gerhard Richter 9780823284030
RRP: $210.60$182.13What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to... -
Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze by Gerhard Richter 9780823284023
RRP: $58.48$51.68What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to... -
The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure by Robert Glenn Davis 9780823272129
RRP: $193.05$167.19Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the... -
Systems of Life: Biopolitics, Economics, and Literature on the Cusp of Modernity by Richard A. Barney 9780823281725
RRP: $218.40$188.78Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in... -
In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent by Claudia Brodsky 9780823230006
RRP: $126.75$109.38The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not... -
Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227693
RRP: $148.20$128.99This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders-the more outlandish the better, with human... -
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic by Jacques Lezra 9780823232369
RRP: $70.20$61.58Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of heterogeneity? Does such unity require corresponding... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370512
RRP: $52.63$45.47Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370321
RRP: $200.85$174.60Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both... -
The Official World by Mark Seltzer 9780822360865
RRP: $179.40$155.55In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for... -
The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs 9780822349921
RRP: $200.85$174.60The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which... -
The Creolization of Theory by Francoise Lionnet 9780822348320
RRP: $189.15$164.64Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines-offers a way for scholars in the humanities to... -
The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng 9780822347156
RRP: $179.40$155.55In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle,... -
Explorations in Poetics by Barbara Harshav 9780804755146
RRP: $183.30$158.89This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not... -
Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory by Sanford Budick 9780804724838
RRP: $66.30$59.07The articulation of the unsayable, of negativity-that which has been excluded by what is sayable-is one of the most important areas of contemporary humanistic study. This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to... -
The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History by Murray Krieger 9780804720984
RRP: $58.48$51.42First published in 1987, this rich variety of essays confronts the changes in theories of the text and textuality that have seen a shift in focus from the author as a controlling agent to the scene of writing itself and the historical forces that produce... -
Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft by Tilottama Rajan 9780801897214
RRP: $113.10$99.43Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895531
RRP: $115.05$101.13Dame 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... -
Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death by R.Clifton Spargo 9780801883118
$112.36Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of... -
Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics by Satya P. Mohanty 9780801481352
RRP: $66.30$58.29At the core of postmodern thought, especially in literary theory, is the belief that such ideals as truth, reason, and objectivity are social constructs that have no universal or trans-historical validity. In exploring this constructivist view, Satya P... -
Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience by Anders Pettersson 9780773520684
RRP: $218.40$89.45Pettersson demonstrates the implications and applications of the theory through a series of detailed studies of literary works, taking care to show that his theory is compatible with a broad variety of perspectives. Combining an intimate knowledge of... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: $87.75$68.87Site 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... -
Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle by Michelle Zerba 9780691632612
RRP: $212.55$165.38Michelle 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,... -
Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History by Claudio Guillen 9780691620527
RRP: $140.40$109.61Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation by Susan Rubin Suleiman 9780691615844
RRP: $126.75$99.27A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of... -
Poetry in Pieces: Cesar Vallejo and Lyric Modernity by Michelle Clayton 9780520262294
RRP: $68.25$54.09Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, "Poetry in Pieces" is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two... -
Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory by Jorg Schweinitz 9780231151481
RRP: $171.60$134.06Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliche, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's the high-noon showdown or the last-minute rescue, a... -
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by Ann W. Astell 9780268032609
RRP: $33.13$29.39A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own situation in a world where the aura of art has decayed... -
Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data by Heather Houser 9780231187329
RRP: $228.15$178.09How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What... -
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert by Robert S. Hatten 9780253344595
RRP: $91.65$80.50"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely... -
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by Eric Hayot 9780231165204
RRP: $171.60$134.06Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an...