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Writing the Lives of Writers by Warwick Gould 9780333684610
RRP: $188.98$188.73Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by internationally distinguished scholars and biographers... -
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459454
$152.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459454Author Sam DurrantFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning by Aleksandar Stevic 9780813944036
RRP: $62.90$57.56A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard... -
Poetic Form: An Introduction by Michael D. Hurley 9780521772945
RRP: $178.48$129.30Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and... -
Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience by Suzanne Nalbantian 9780333740651
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including... -
Teaching Stylistics by Lesley Jeffries 9780230235885
RRP: $94.48$94.44Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and practice of teaching... -
Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations by Justin D. Edwards 9780230241190
RRP: $94.48$94.44With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of... -
Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy: An Eve to Please Me by Saba Bahar 9780333973905
RRP: $94.48$94.44Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading to position her in relation to other... -
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities by Jonathan Gottschall 9780230609013
RRP: $94.48$94.44Literary 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 Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin by David S. Ferris 9780521864589
RRP: $98.70$67.79For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history, allegory, material culture, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and his vast examination of the social,... -
The Definition of Literature and Other Essays by W. W. Robson 9780521318471
RRP: $65.08$49.98Professor W. W. Robson is an eminent literary critic, best known for his work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. His natural form of expression is the critical essay, and this book comprises a collection of essays on a variety of topics... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 2 1933-34 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067805
RRP: $90.28$76.84Scrutiny 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... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 9 1940-41 by F. R. Leavis 9780521067799
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... -
Creative Mimesis of Emotion: From Sorrow to Elation, Elegiac Virtuosity in Literature by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 9780792360070
RRP: $194.25$151.56Are emotions, feelings, sentiments not the stuff of literature? There it is where they project their inner logic of aesthetic transmutation; there, beyond the instrument of language that they command. This collection explores how the lyrical virtualities... -
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis by Astrid Ensslin 9780814214565
$170.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214565Author Astrid EnsslinFormat HardbackImprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England by Mary C. Flannery 9781137428615
$213.09We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual... -
Romantic Migrations: Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions by M. Wiley 9780230604681
RRP: $94.48$94.44Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution,... -
Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland by Peter Mahon 9780230576438
RRP: $94.48$94.44Using the work of Rene Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the... -
Migration and Literature: Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjaerstad by S. Frank 9780230608283
RRP: $94.48$94.44Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.Book InformationISBN 9780230608283Author S. FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Palgrave... -
Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order by Paul Young 9780230520752
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes... -
Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory by Wendell V. Harris 9780313259326
$152.40Not a general dictionary of literary terms, the Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory treats seventy fundamental and overarching concepts from allegory and allusion to tragedy and unity. By concepts is meant broad terms that designate... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793619
$73.48Literary 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,... -
Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880-1914 by Jil Larson 9780521121675
RRP: $65.08$49.98Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics and literature by a diverse range of thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, Jil Larson offers new readings of late Victorian and turn-of-the-century British... -
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800 by Allan Ingram 9780230246317
RRP: $94.48$94.44Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks... -
Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory by Cassandra Falke 9780230234802
RRP: $94.48$94.44Dealing 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: $65.08$55.50Scrutiny 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
$189.57This 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $188.98$188.73Through 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: $94.48$94.44The 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $94.48$94.44Most 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: $65.08$45.97The 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
$66.80This 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: $65.08$49.98The 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: $188.98$168.06Why 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: $209.98$188.73This 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: $94.48$94.44The 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: $178.50$156.47This 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
$213.47Did 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...