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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
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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,... -
Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography by Alison Donnell 9780312226671
£90.27Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With... -
Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature by P. Leonard 9780312224929
RRP: £89.99£89.87Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature is a collection of essays which considers how recent critical theory contributes to debates about mystical and negative theology. This collection draws upon a wide range of material, including Biblical... -
Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the 'Angel in the House' by Andrew Bradstock 9780312212179
RRP: £89.99£89.87An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the... -
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination by Avril Horner 9780312211462
RRP: £89.99£89.87Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du... -
Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction by Janet Beer 9780312210953
RRP: £89.99£89.87A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which... -
Drama on Drama: Dimensions of Theatricality on the Contemporary British Stage by Nicole Boireau 9780312165413
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book gives an in-depth and invigorating analysis of reflexivity in recent British drama - the way drama comments on drama. The interplay of dramatic forms, the cross-fertilization of historical traditions are explored in relation to major... -
Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them by Tim Parks 9780300215366
£54.86In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's... -
Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature by James A.W. Heffernan 9780300195583
£63.71In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's Odyssey to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our... -
Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith by Joel Bettridge 9780230619425
RRP: £44.99£44.97Reading as Belief advances the provocative idea that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry require readers to become believers, occupying the same philosophical ground as the religious faithful. Pairing the poets Charles Bernstein and... -
Teaching Theory by Richard Bradford 9780230520745
RRP: £44.99£44.97Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates... -
Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature by L. Driscoll 9780230615274
RRP: £44.99£44.97This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory. Driscoll critiques the way... -
Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou by P. McGee 9780230615250
RRP: £44.99£44.97Usinga method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, fromMarx, to Gramsci, to Badiou.Book InformationISBN 9780230615250Author P. McGeeFormat... -
British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry by Kathryn Ledbetter 9780230601260
RRP: £44.99£44.97Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth... -
Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture: The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity by J. Stratton 9780230604742
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.Book InformationISBN 9780230604742Author J. StrattonFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave... -
The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction by Kevin Paul Smith 9780230500488
RRP: £44.99£44.97Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most... -
Social Constructionist Identity Politics and Literary Studies by Suman Gupta 9780230500471
RRP: £44.99£44.97This study presents a critique of social constructionist identity politics, which is distinguished from specific identity-based political positions, from within and with social constructionist commitments. Gupta examines the institutionalization of... -
Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness by Ina Habermann 9780230241367
RRP: £44.99£44.97This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an... -
Teaching Stylistics by Lesley Jeffries 9780230235878
RRP: £44.99£44.97Understanding 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... -
Feminism: Transmissions and Retransmissions by Marta Lamas 9780230105089
RRP: £44.99£44.97Adding to the debate on a range of issues, this book presents a critical and deeply personal history of Mexican feminism in the last thirty five years. Drawing from her many years of activism and anthropological scholarship, influential thinker Marta... -
Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre by Allan H. Pasco 9780230106987
RRP: £44.99£44.97Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to... -
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou 9780230003392
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates... -
Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor by Jonathan Charteris-Black 9780230019812
£75.11This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to... -
Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition by David B. Kronenfeld 9780195094084
RRP: £60.00£49.36Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers'... -
The Bible and the Narrative Tradition by Frank McConnell 9780195070026
RRP: £29.99£29.35In his introduction to this book, McConnell describes the Bible as "less a book and more a living entity in the evolving consciousness of Western man." Until recently, studies of the Bible centered on finding sources for historical knowledge,... -
Agents and Lives by S. L. Goldberg 9780521112444
RRP: £36.99£28.38Agents 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... -
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces by Derek Attridge 9780748640089 [USED COPY]
RRP: £95.00£2.39What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by Peter Marks 9783030886561
RRP: £119.99£108.58The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its... -
A Future for Criticism by Catherine Belsey 9781405169578
RRP: £72.95£62.86A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. * Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent... -
Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation and Immigration in Contemporary Europe by Gisela Brinker-Gabler 9780816624614 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.00£9.52The essays in Writing New Identities address the complexities, and explore the inter-relationships of na tionalisms, genders, and representational practices of the p eoples of the New Europe at the end of the 20th century. 'Book InformationISBN... -
Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin 9781405106962 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.99£2.68This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies. This is a definitive collection of classic...