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Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative by Robert T. Tally Jr. 9781349687527
RRP: £99.99£99.71Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of... -
On Literary Worlds by Eric Hayot 9780199926695
RRP: £40.99£28.50Though literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe literary history owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that core of the idea of technological development. No real... -
Ruskin and Modernism by Giovanni Cianci 9780333915608
RRP: £44.99£44.97The extent of John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, a group of... -
Literature, Theory, History by J. Hart 9780230113398
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context.Book... -
Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape by Victor J. Vitanza 9780230112834
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking , reading , and writing . The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close... -
The Age of Virtue: British Culture from the Restoration to Romanticism by D. Morse 9780333760314
£90.27In the eighteenth century 'virtue' was a word to conjure with. It called to mind heroic predecessors from the Roman Republic such as Cato and Brutus and invoked qualities of personal integrity, selflessness and a concern for the common good, which,... -
Spivak and Postcolonialism: Exploring Allegations of Textuality by Taoufiq Sakhkhane 9780230298910
RRP: £44.99£44.97Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this... -
William Empson: The Critical Achievement by Christopher Norris 9780521353861
RRP: £90.00£67.65William Empson (1906-84) was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive critical voices, and left a profound mark upon Anglo-American literary culture. Published in 1993, this book was the first full study of Empson's literary criticism in its... -
Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art by David Richards 9780521479721
RRP: £36.99£28.38David Richards here examines historical anthropological discourse - specifically writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races - as a form of textual practice. He analyses various kinds of 'naturalistic' representations, both... -
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson 9780814255940
£33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255940Author Jordan CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded by Dominic Rainsford 9780333773895
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The... -
Writing War in the Twentieth Century by Margot Norris 9780813919928
£24.71The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks... -
Studies in Human Time by Georges Poulet 9780837193489
£83.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837193489Author Georges PouletFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin After O'Casey by Michael Pierse 9780230272279
£90.27Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy... -
English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report by John Sinclair 9780826474896
£42.04This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of... -
Encyclopedia of Allegorical Literature by David A. Leeming 9780874367812
£79.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874367812Author David A. LeemingFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint ABC-CLIOPublisher ABC-CLIO -
'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror by Pei-Chen Liao 9780230349681
RRP: £44.99£44.97While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by... -
Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris by Matthew Taunton 9780230579767
RRP: £44.99£44.97Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that... -
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages 9780826490728
RRP: £95.00£94.80Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to... -
Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School' by F. R. Leavis 9780521295734
RRP: £30.99£23.80Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a... -
Structuralism or Criticism?: Thoughts on how we Read by Geoffrey Strickland 9780521276573
RRP: £30.99£23.80Geoffrey Strickland's book considers some of the principal Structuralist theories of the sixties and seventies, which derive from the 'semiology' or 'science of signs' postulated by the Swiss linguistician Saussure at the beginning of the twentieth... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction by Bran Nicol 9780521861571
RRP: £89.99£67.25Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern... -
A Route to Modernism: Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf by Rosemary Sumner 9780333770467
RRP: £89.99£89.87The question 'What is modernism?' has provoked intense critical discussion. A Route to Modernism explores this area; it focuses on the strange and dangerous journey taken by Hardy, Lawrence and Woolf towards unknown regions of the mind and the universe... -
Literature After Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction 1859-1939 by Virginia Richter 9780230273405
RRP: £44.99£44.97What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the... -
Gothic and the Comic Turn by Avril Horner 9780333771518
RRP: £44.99£44.97Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic... -
The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power by J. Jeffers 9780312238391
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... -
The Religions of the Book: Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660 by Dr Matthew Dimmock 9780230020047
RRP: £44.99£44.97This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of... -
The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by E. Godfrey 9780230606739
RRP: £44.99£44.97By considering the disruptive potential of age disparate marriages in nineteenth-century British literature, Godfrey offers provocative new readings of canonical texts including Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Bleak House.Book InformationISBN... -
Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics by Zoran Pecic 9780230367418
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.Book... -
Cross-Gendered Literary Voices: Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing by R. Kim 9780230299870
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between... -
Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture by Gail Ashton 9780230337343
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while... -
Screening Novel Women: From British Domestic Fiction to Film by Liora Brosh 9780230008465
RRP: £44.99£44.97From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the... -
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader by Tom Cohen 9780521623704
RRP: £90.00£67.65The 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;... -
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory by Ruth Ronen 9780521456487
RRP: £38.99£30.33The 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... -
New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 by Professor Anna Marie Smith 9780521452977
RRP: £90.00£67.25The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from... -
Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History by Mary Hammond 9780230500761
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new... -
The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism by Lyndsey Stonebridge 9780333678381
£40.09'In the destructive element immerse.' These words from Joseph Conrad's Stein in Lord Jim cast a shadow over twentieth-century literature. At the same time, Freud's bleak prognosis of culture's discontents left a psychoanalysis with a legacy that found... -
Approaches to Literature Through Theme by Paula Montgomery 9780897747721
£31.81Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780897747721Author Paula MontgomeryFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere by Mark D. Walhout 9780333746905
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection examines the ways in which religion and literature are capable of renewing what the eminent German philosopher Jurgen Habermas refers to as 'the public sphere'. The essays range from close commentaries on particular texts ( King Lear, The... -
Agents and Lives by S. L. Goldberg 9780521394680
RRP: £99.99£67.25Agents and Lives offers an important rethinking of the traditional 'humanist' view of literature. That tradition's valuation of literature for its 'moral import' is extended in a wider, more complex, open, and exploratory understanding of those terms...