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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... -
Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere by A. McCann 9780333734988
RRP: £89.99£89.87Cultural Politics in the 1790s examines the relationship between sentimental literature, political activism and the public sphere at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on critical theorists such as Habermas, Negt and Kluge, Marcuse and Foucault,... -
Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth: Tales of Belonging by Kath Filmer-Davies 9780333650295
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from... -
The Cast of Consciousness: Concepts of the Mind in British and American Romanticism by Michael A. Bain 9780313258916
£83.24The contributors to this volume represent acknowledged experts in the field as well as a number of promising young scholars. They provide a thorough examination of how Romantic authors grappled with the problem of describing the connections between... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801881695
£63.22This large-scale project aims to present a broad, original perspective on the writing and lives of eighteenth century (British) women poets. More specifically, it seeks to do so by giving close attention to the intersections of agency-as evident in the... -
Bohemia in London: The Social Scene of Early Modernism by Peter Brooker 9780230546929
RRP: £44.99£44.97This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois... -
Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities by Rachel Carroll 9780826424648
£37.07Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities seeks to reconfigure the ways in which adaptation is conceptualised by considering adaptation within an extended range of generic, critical and theoretical contexts. This collection explores... -
Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic: The Example of Charles Mauron by Linda Hutcheon 9780521027953
RRP: £30.99£23.80This study has a double focus: in the first place, it seeks to chart the parallel re-evaluation of both formalism and psychology in twentieth-century literary theory by using the work and career of the French literary critic, Charles Mauron (1899-1966)... -
The Making of London: London in Contemporary Literature by Sebastian Groes 9780230234789
RRP: £44.99£44.97London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a... -
The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern by M. Middeke 9780230293724
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period... -
Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel by A. Robinson 9780230235939
RRP: £44.99£44.97In recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in... -
Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History by Professor Peter Buse 9780333711446
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... -
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism by Robert Wess 9780521410496
RRP: £90.00£56.69Kenneth Burke, arguably the most important American literary theorist of the twentieth century, helped define the theoretical terrain for contemporary literary and cultural studies. His perspectives were literary and linguistic, but his influences ranged... -
Stories, Theories and Things by Christine Brooke-Rose 9780521391818
RRP: £90.00£67.25The novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft and turns her well-developed analytic abilities on other writers fictional and critical, from Hawthorne to Pound to Bloom and Derrida, in an attempt to investigate those... -
Genres in Discourse by Tzvetan Todorov 9780521342490
RRP: £90.00£67.25This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and ask such questions as: What is literature? What is... -
Critical Conditions: Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations by Horace L. Fairlamb 9780521450478
RRP: £90.00£61.57The postmodern debate has been heavily influenced by often contradictory conclusions about the foundations of knowledge: hermeneutics challenges epistemology, politics challenges science, identity theory challenges critical theory, pragmatism challenges... -
Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Pramod K. Nayar 9780826437006
RRP: £95.00£94.80Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and... -
Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival by Maximilian C. Forte 9780820474885
RRP: £30.50£27.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820474885Author Maximilian C. ForteFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 450g -
Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce by Gay Wilson Allen 9780814311585
RRP: £24.95£21.31This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at... -
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital by Marco Codebò 9780814214473
£83.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214473Author Marco CodebòFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 490g -
We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction by Natalya Bekhta 9780814214411
£83.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214411Author Natalya BekhtaFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 490g -
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson 9780814214435
£97.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214435Author Jordan CarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 513g -
Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory by Daniel Punday 9780814214084
£67.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214084Author Daniel PundayFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 435g -
The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature by Gary Weissman 9780814213193
£89.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213193Author Gary WeissmanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 431g -
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital by Marco Codebò 9780814256022
£37.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256022Author Marco CodebòFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning by Aleksandar Stevic 9780813944029
RRP: £56.00£49.86A 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... -
Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature by Marian Eide 9780813942377
£34.00If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of... -
Modernist Cultural Studies by Catherine Driscoll 9780813041704
RRP: £29.95£23.41For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of post modern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct... -
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology by Erin James 9780814214206
£76.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214206Author Erin JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 522g -
Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature by Marian Eide 9780813942353
£68.70If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of... -
The Classic Vision by Murray Krieger 9780801815515
£27.33In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity-the writer's commitment to a master metaphor even as he acknowledges the incompleteness of that metaphor. The term "classic" is used here to... -
Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation by R.M. Berry 9780791472644
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791472644Author R.M. BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality by Byron Caminero-Santangelo 9780791462614
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791462614Author Byron Caminero-SantangeloFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise by Gary A. Olson 9780791462140
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791462140Author Gary A. OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality by Byron Caminero-Santangelo 9780791462621
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791462621Author Byron Caminero-SantangeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Death of French Culture by Donald Morrison 9780745649948
£15.23For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same.The greatness of the former added to the influence of the latter,and vice versa. French writers, artists and philosophers were atthe centre of the world s attention and enjoyed... -
A Derrida Dictionary by Niall Lucy 9780631218425
RRP: £97.25£85.06This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. * This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida's complex and extensive works. * From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is...