Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism by Steven Mailloux 9780521462259
RRP: £90.00£67.25The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in... -
Literature and Race in Los Angeles by Julian Murphet 9780521805353
RRP: £30.99£23.80Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticized city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its classrooms, and one homogeneous visual language... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin by David S. Ferris 9780521793292
RRP: £75.00£51.81This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a... -
Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics by Peter Szondi 9780521459310
RRP: £30.99£21.89Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking readers. The... -
The Myth of Theory by William Righter 9780521445443
RRP: £90.00£67.25What is critical theory, and to what extent can it claim to exist as a free-standing entity independent of the object of enquiry? Is the much-discussed gulf between Anglo-Saxon empiricism and Continental post-structuralism more apparent than real? In The... -
Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction by Paisley Livingston 9780521405409
RRP: £90.00£67.65This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies. Livingston provides a broad survey of the basic assumptions and questions associated with concepts of... -
Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature by Timothy Clark 9780521405393
RRP: £90.00£67.25Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either absorbed into the corpus of modern literary theory, or... -
The End of Literary Theory by Stein Haugrom Olsen 9780521333269
RRP: £90.00£67.25The essays in this collection are concerned with the philosophical problems that arise in connection with the understanding and evaluation of literature - such problems as the relationship between the work and the author (authorial intention), between... -
The Craft of Criticism by Allan E. Rodway 9780521299091
RRP: £30.99£23.80Students of literature are not sure of expositions of critical principle or examples of critical practice. However, the books of theory tend to be both abstruse and remote from literary appreciation, while books of practical criticism rarely spell out... -
Selections from the Poems of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott 9780521126137
RRP: £30.99£23.80First published in 1922, this volume draws together a broad selection of Sir Walter Scott's poetry. The selection was made by A. Hamilton Thompson, as part of the Selections from English Romantic Poetry series, with the intention of capturing Scott's... -
Confession and Complicity in Narrative by Dennis A. Foster 9780521177320
RRP: £30.99£23.80What is the precise relationship between the writer of a text and the reader? Contributions to reader-response theory have suggested that the reader is relatively passive. In this 1987 text, Professor Foster argues that the relationship is more complex... -
Narrative and Structure: Exploratory Essays by John Holloway 9780521137041
RRP: £30.99£23.80John Holloway is probably best known for his work on Shakespeare and on the Victorian and modern periods; this 1979 book represents an extension of his interests hitherto. Though not intended as mathematical analyses of fiction or drama, the essays here... -
The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis by R.P. Bilan 9780521129244
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book is an attempt at a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the many strands of Leavis's work, emphasising the basic unity of his ideas. The literary criticism needs to be understood in the context of his wider social concerns, and so this... -
The Practice of Criticism by D.H. Rawlinson 9780521095402
RRP: £30.99£23.80Many people associate 'practical criticism' with a short-sighted brand of literary analysis which kills a student's interest in literature by drilling him to concentrate narrowly on verbal detail. Handled properly, however, practical criticism can play a... -
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 14 1946-47 by F. R. Leavis 9780521068246
RRP: £42.99£36.19Scrutiny 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. 18 1951-52 by F. R. Leavis 9780521068130
RRP: £42.99£36.19Scrutiny 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... -
Sollers: Writer by Roland Barthes 9780485113372
RRP: £90.00£89.88In his discussion of the controversial French writer Sollers, Barthes raises critical issues of central importance - such as the nature of narrative, the theory of language, the problems of traditional realism and the relationship between literature and... -
The Medium is the Mess Age: How McLuhan Got It Wright by Daniel Deleanu 9780359432769
RRP: £10.85£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359432769Author Daniel DeleanuFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 236g -
Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction by Alan Sandison 9780333776414
RRP: £89.99£89.87This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream'... -
Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890: Theories and Circumtexts by Bill Overton 9780333770801
£90.27Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through nineteenth-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of... -
Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain by M. Turner 9780333729823
RRP: £89.99£89.87Trollope and the Magazines examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines - including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls , and the Fortnightly Review . It... -
Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture by Ann C. Colley 9780333728130
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book is about a group of Victorian British writers and artists (Darwin, Stevenson, Gaskell, Ruskin, Pater, Brown and Turner) whose work emerges from recollection and whose texts embody the experience of nostalgia. The study concentrates on the... -
Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction by Chidi Okonkwo 9780333638699
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonised societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and... -
Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism by Gary E. Day 9780333629000
RRP: £89.99£89.87This 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... -
Ezra Pound as Critic by G. Singh 9780333598498
RRP: £89.99£89.87'G. Singh's cleanly read monography gives testimony to Pound's sense of criticism.' - Ian Bell, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Pound's criticism is as important to modern poetry as his own poetry. There is no book dealing with his criticism, either... -
Readings in the Canon of Scripture: Written for our Learning by David Jasper 9780333593073
RRP: £89.99£89.87Beginning with the insights of the 'canonical criticism' of Brevard Childs and James Sanders, this book explores the canon of the Bible through readings in literature, art and cinema. It places the Bible within the concerns of contemporary feminist... -
Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology by David Jasper 9780333570623
RRP: £89.99£89.87These essays are written by scholars from widely differing disciplines and traditions. Theologians, philosophers, literary critics and historians of ideas approach the question of how the judaeo-Christian tradition of theological reflection has suffered... -
Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics by Michael O'Pray 9780333537626
£93.20This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism... -
On Literary Theory and Philosophy by Richard Freadman 9780333521298
RRP: £89.99£89.87The principle aim of this book is to explore the relationship between contemporary literary theory and analytic philosophy. The volume addresses this issue in two ways: first, through four exchanges between, on the one hand, proponents of avant-garde... -
Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero by B. Rotman 9780333455517
RRP: £49.99£44.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333455517Author B. RotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan -
The Study of Literature and Religion: An Introduction by David Jasper 9780333408261
RRP: £89.99£89.87An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.Book InformationISBN... -
Conviction: The Law, the State and the Construction of Justice by Doreen J. McBarnet 9780333255360
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333255360Author Doreen J. McBarnetFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 394g -
Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature by Margaret Hallissy 9780313259197
£83.24This work demonstrates the ways in which a complex of ideas with a misogynistic basis relates to the image of the venomous woman--the woman who uses poisons or potions, who has a relationship with a venomous animal, or who is herself poisonous. Hallissy... -
Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction by C. G. Prado 9780313240133
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313240133Author C. G. PradoFormat HardbackPage Count 169Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Leonard Orr 9780313235276
£72.57Interest in critical theory has grown enormously since the end of the 1960s and now seems to be fully integrated into most university programs. Leonard Orr has prepared a much needed historical and international dictionary of the language of critical... -
The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew by Susan K. Harris 9780312295295
RRP: £44.99£44.97The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess explores the influence well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the U.S. and in England in the years 1870-1920. Fields, an American, was first married to James T... -
Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain by M. Turner 9780312221768
RRP: £89.99£89.87Trollope and the Magazines examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines - including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls , and the Fortnightly Review . It... -
The Idea of Europe in Literature by Susanne Fendler 9780312219857
RRP: £89.99£89.87The relevance of culture has recently enjoyed increasing recognition for the study of European integration and a European identity. Appeals to a common European culture as well as appeals to different national cultures have been used respectively as a... -
Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship between Modern Art and Modern Literature by Na Na 9780312126605
RRP: £44.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship between Modern Art and Modern Literature by Daniel R. Schwarz 9780312126551
RRP: £89.99£89.87Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin,...