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Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain by M. Turner 9780312221768
RRP: $188.98$188.73Trollope 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: $188.98$188.73The 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: $94.48$94.44Sorry 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: $188.98$188.73Reconfiguring 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
$189.57Representing 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: $188.98$188.73Trajectories 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: $188.98$188.73An 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: $188.98$188.73Daphne 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: $188.98$188.73A 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: $188.98$188.73This 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
$115.21In 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
$133.79In 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: $94.48$94.44Reading 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: $94.48$94.44Teaching 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $94.48$94.44Usinga 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: $94.48$94.44Ledbetter 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $94.48$94.44Why 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $94.48$94.44This 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: $94.48$94.44Understanding 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: $94.48$94.44Adding 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: $94.48$94.44Pasco 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: $94.48$94.44This 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
$157.73This 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: $126.00$103.66Kronenfeld 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: $62.98$61.64In 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: $77.68$59.60Agents 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... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by Peter Marks 9783030886561
RRP: $251.98$228.02The 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: $153.20$132.01A 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: $35.70$19.99The 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: $60.88$5.88This 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... -
All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction by Lilian R. Furst 9780822316329 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.50$2.63"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims... -
Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible by Richard A. Grusin 9780822310594 [USED COPY]
RRP: $94.50$2.63American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson's resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self... -
The Discerning Reader: Christian Perspectives on Literature and Theory by David Barratt 9780851114453 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$6.51This compendium is a Christian response to the major controversies and some of the key texts with which undergraduates and postgraduates in English studies are grappling. The contributors, many of them working in major universities, examine some of the... -
Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780195089752 [USED COPY]
RRP: $123.90$5.73Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years (in cloth and paper) and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge 9780436210051 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88$8.84Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. But as the richest record we... -
Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88 by Jonathan Arac 9780801840456 [USED COPY]
RRP: $55.65$4.75"Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.About the AuthorJonathan Arac is professor of... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler 9780804747097
$206.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.