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Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88 by Jonathan Arac 9780801840456
RRP: $55.65$48.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture by Lauren Berlant 9780822341840
RRP: $186.90$163.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth by William Egginton 9780804755993
RRP: $174.30$151.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Art of English: Everyday Creativity by Janet Maybin 9781403985590 [USED COPY]
RRP: $69.28$5.88This volume examines ideas about creativity and various approaches to its study. It explores the argument that we use language creatively and the link between creativity and literary language. Chapters examine poetic language, narrative and performance... -
Writing Migration through the Body by Emma Bond 9783030073923
RRP: $115.48$114.16Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility. At its core stands a selection of recent migration stories in Italian, which are brought into... -
Rhetoric and Composition: An Introduction by Steven Lynn 9780521821117
RRP: $157.50$117.85Rhetoric and composition is an academic discipline that informs all other fields in teaching students how to communicate their ideas and construct their arguments. It has grown dramatically to become a cornerstone of many undergraduate courses and... -
The Name of Action: Critical Essays by John Fraser 9780521277457
RRP: $65.08$49.98This selection from John Fraser's essays forms a triptych with his Violence in the Arts and America and the Patterns of Chivalry (published by the Press in 1974 and 1982) and, like them, explores conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social... -
Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power by Paul A. Bove 9780822325222
RRP: $48.28$42.02For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said's importance extends far... -
The Time Machine and the Domaine: Origins and Functions of Imaginative Literature by Richard W Bevis 9781039124899
RRP: $46.18$33.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039124899Author Richard W BevisFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 662g -
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics by Silke Horstkotte 9780814215029
$190.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215029Author Silke HorstkotteFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean Literature, c. 1640-1800 by Heinrich Wilke 9781032781280
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian Revolution. Researching travel literature, plantation manuals, Georgic poetry, letters, and political... -
Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 by Eva Johanna Holmberg 9781009180733
RRP: $35.70$30.91This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and... -
The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations by Dene Grigar 9781009181471
RRP: $35.70$30.91The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations addresses the growing concern about how best to maintain and extend the accessibility of early interactive novels and hypertext fiction or narratives. These forms of... -
Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century by Theophilus Savvas 9781009287258
RRP: $178.50$160.86Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century re-assesses both canonical and less well-known literary texts to illuminate how vegetarianism and veganism can be understood as literary phenomena, as well as dietary... -
Nonhuman Subjects: An Ecology of Earth-Beings by Federico Luisetti 9781009442787
RRP: $35.70$30.91The surging wave of indigenous politics, rights of nature, and social movements acting with rocks, rivers, glaciers, and lakes has brought to light an ecology of nonlife. Its protagonists are 'earth-beings,' geobodies that question deep-seated Western... -
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson 9781009299961
RRP: $41.98$35.32George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the... -
Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures by Jacob Jewusiak 9781009318365
RRP: $35.70$30.91Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals by Derek Ryan 9781009300049
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging... -
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake 9781009321228
RRP: $178.50$160.86In Edible Arrangements, Elizabeth Blake explores the way modernist writing about eating delves into larger questions about bodily and literary pleasure. Drawing on insights from the field of food studies, she makes dual interventions into queer theory... -
The Philosophy of Literary Translation: Dialogue, Movement, Ecology by Clive Scott 9781009389952
RRP: $178.50$160.86While reading transforms texts through memories, associations and re-imaginings, translation allows us to act out our reading experience, inscribe it in a new text, and engage in a dialogic and dynamic relationship with the original. In this highly... -
The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas by Ronan McDonald 9781107124165
RRP: $157.50$142.25What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time... -
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century by Bashir Abu-Manneh 9781108429177
RRP: $157.50$142.25By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic,... -
Beckett and Buddhism by Angela Moorjani 9781316519691
RRP: $157.50$142.25Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and... -
The Practice of Theory: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy by Michael F. Bernard-Donals 9780521594332
RRP: $126.00$112.92Though theory has become a common language in the humanities in recent years, the relation between theoretical speculation and its practical application has yet to be fully addressed. In The Practice of Theory, Michael Bernard-Donals examines the... -
Literature and Race in Los Angeles by Julian Murphet 9780521801492
RRP: $126.00$112.92Los 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... -
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan by Gilbert D. Chaitin 9780521497282
RRP: $126.00$112.92This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how... -
Newspaper by Dr. Maggie Messitt 9781501392177
RRP: $20.98$16.11Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law by Allen Mendenhall 9781611487930
RRP: $88.20$77.55This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes's literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's thought:... -
Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico by Jose David Saldivar 9780822350835
$55.23A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational"... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781409410003
RRP: $193.18$168.42Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris... -
Relevance and Narrative Research by Matei Chihaia 9781498586825
RRP: $189.00$165.50"Relevance" is one of the most widely used buzz words in academic and other socio-political discourses and institutions today, which constantly ask us to "be relevant." To date, there is no profound scholarly conceptualization of the... -
Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World by Sharon Schuman 9781611496024
RRP: $88.20$77.55Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom-being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth-have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature,... -
Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration by Tara Pauliny 9781498523035
RRP: $172.20$151.87Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration uses transnational feminist rhetorical analyses to understand how the global force of neoliberalism infiltrates all parts of life from nation-state relationships to individual... -
Lawrence among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions by Carol Siegel 9780813933238
$81.14Carol Siegel challenges the standard representation of Lawrence in feminist criticism and places his work in the context of women's literary traditions.Book InformationISBN 9780813933238Author Carol SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University... -
Figurally Colored Narration: Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature by Wolf Schmid 9783111357980
RRP: $29.40$24.78Figurally colored narration (FCN) is narrator’s discourse (whether in the first or third person) that adopts salient features of character’s text, mainly valuation and designation, without signaling the figural part in any way. Unlike free indirect... -
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing by Marilyn Sanders Mobley 9781439924310
RRP: $50.38$43.76Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of... -
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel by Jillmarie Murphy 9781611490503
RRP: $170.10$149.23Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early... -
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing by Marilyn Sanders Mobley 9781439924303
RRP: $191.10$165.73Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang 9780822342304
RRP: $50.38$43.76In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked... -
Speculative Facts by Quenton Miller 9789493148512
RRP: $42.00$33.96Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fiction This volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigms of knowledge-seeking: speculation, which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and...