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Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle by Michelle Zerba 9780691632612
£84.81Michelle 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
£56.21Writing 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
£50.91A 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
£27.74Set 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
£68.75Since 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
£15.07A 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
£91.33How 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
£41.28"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
£68.75Bringing 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... -
Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment by Maria Lara 9780231140300
£39.12Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, Maria Pia Lara explores what has changed... -
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism by David Fuller 9780198186397
£51.29This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen... -
The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780195062724
£78.81While affirming the profound importance of political analysis, Hogan is critical of prevalent doctrines. Specifically, Hogan examines and criticizes several influential post-structuralist positions, advocating logical analysis and empirical enquiry,... -
Computing as Writing by Daniel Punday 9780816697021
£20.01This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices ("notebook" computers) through the design of user interfaces (the "desktop") to how we describe the work of programmers... -
Qu'est-Ce Qu'une Promesse?: Poetica Et Analytica by Per Aage Brandt 9788772883984
RRP: £10.00£8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772883984Author Per Aage BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Canonical Texts of English Literacy Criticism: With Selections from Classical Poeticians by Kapil Kapoor 9788171881093
£26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171881093Author Kapil KapoorFormat HardbackPage Count 317Imprint Academic FoundationPublisher Academic Foundation -
Meaning in Communication, Cognition and Reality: Outline of a Theory from Semiotics, Philosophy and Sociology by Martin Staude 9781845402297
£21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402297Author Martin StaudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 500g -
Chinese Semiotic Thoughts in the Pre-imperial Age by Dong Zhu 9789819959853
£104.62This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective. Although the Chinese civilization did not develop a comprehensive semiotics system in that period, they are... -
Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer by David Stromberg 9781611496642
£12.95Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways-both in the themes... -
Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities by Carlos Riobo 9781611480368
£80.82Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic... -
Intention Interpretation by Gary Iseminger 9781566393461
£33.27A complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionA complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionAbout the AuthorGary Iseminger, William H. Laird Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, has... -
The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards 9781517901288
£20.01An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and... -
The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards 9781517901271
£84.03An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and... -
Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America by Brian Russell Roberts 9781478010739
£89.54Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other... -
Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Nathan Snaza 9781478004158
£79.77In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial... -
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution by Jeremy Matthew Glick 9781479844425
£69.962017 Nicolas Guillen Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association As the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop 9781478001263
£73.81Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common... -
Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha 9781421439839
£27.37Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly... -
Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel by Katherine Binhammer 9781421437606
£71.15How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies?Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells... -
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects by Crystal B. Lake 9781421436494
RRP: £97.00£85.51In the eighteenth century, antiquaries-wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians-used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently... -
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel by Stephanie Insley Hershinow 9781421429670
£38.12The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century... -
Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form by Sandra Macpherson 9781421429014
£27.37A field-defining study of the novel as a tragic form.Sandra Macpherson's groundbreaking study of the rise of the novel connects its form to developments in liability law across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. In particular, Macpherson argues for... -
Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Trevor Ross 9781421426310
£41.97What is the role of literary writing in democratic society?Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the... -
Imagination and Science in Romanticism by Richard C. Sha 9781421425788
£45.81How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped... -
Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry by Chad Bennett 9781421425375
£38.52Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip's ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic... -
Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel by Daniel Wright 9781421425177
£41.97How did the Victorians think about love and desire?"Reader, I married him," Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he's put her through? The... -
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature by Sonya Posmentier 9781421422657
£38.12At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421889
£91.49Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about... -
The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins by Devin Griffiths 9781421420769
£42.37Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed... -
Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Natalie M. Phillips 9781421420127
£38.12Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street... -
The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS by Dagmawi Woubshet 9781421416557
RRP: £42.00£38.34His world view colored by growing up in 1980s Ethiopia, where death governed time and temperament, Dagmawi Woubshet offers a startlingly fresh interpretation of melancholy and mourning during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in The Calendar of Loss...