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Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz 9780820340166
$59.49Jerome Klinkowitz presents an opening attempt to define postmodernism as it applies to the arts and culture. Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic... -
Mask by Dr. Sharrona Pearl 9798765102404
RRP: $20.98$19.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry by Richard Deming 9781501720147
RRP: $58.78$44.92Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar... -
Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe: Translation, Dissemination and Mediality by Rita Schlusemann 9783110758481
RRP: $170.10$154.58This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and... -
Storytelling in Science and Literature by Margery Arent Safir 9781611486438
RRP: $174.30$152.86This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language-and storytelling in particular-deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel... -
Frameworks by William Nelles 9781725285644
RRP: $81.90$58.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285644Author William NellesFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 152g -
The Textual Society by Edwina Taborsky 9780802071804
RRP: $54.58$47.23Semiotics - the study of the encoding of meaning - has so far been confined largely within the humanities, where it has forged a whole new way of understanding meaning and its construction. In this multidisciplinary study, Edwina Taborsky applies... -
The Nonnarrated by Wolf Schmid 9783111236575
RRP: $172.20$144.67Telling a story requires selecting and assembling individual elements of the events one wishes to communicate. The "nonnarrated" are the events (or parts of events) that were deliberately left out of the selection, meaning all that was not chosen to be... -
Frameworks by William Nelles 9781725285651
RRP: $48.30$34.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285651Author William NellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
A Szubjektum Szinevaltozasai: Narrativ, Kapcsolati Es Testi Alanyisag AZ Irodalomban Es a Kulturaban by Enikő Bollobas 9786155423444
RRP: $23.08$19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155423444Author Enikő BollobasFormat PaperbackImprint Americana eBooksPublisher Americana eBooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics by S. Allen 9780230248175
RRP: $94.48$53.47This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry... -
Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt by Robin Truth Goodman 9781643150000
RRP: $27.28$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643150000Author Robin Truth GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Lever PressPublisher Lever PressWeight(grams) 191g -
Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability by Susan Antebi 9781349378319
RRP: $94.48$67.75This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth century cronicas, to Mario Bellatin's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo... -
Codes and Evolution: The Origin of Absolute Novelties by Marcello Barbieri 9783031584831
RRP: $209.98$183.56This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. The author claims this experimental fact is bound to change biology forever. This book shows how... -
Storytelling in Science and Literature by Margery Arent Safir 9781611486452
RRP: $94.50$82.93This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language-and storytelling in particular-deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel... -
The Ecstatic Nerve: Speculations on Several Dubious Subjects by Olchar E Lindsann 9781948637015
RRP: $42.00$39.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948637015Author Olchar E LindsannFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Monocle-Lash Anti-PressPublisher Monocle-Lash Anti-PressWeight(grams) 804g -
Occupying Memory: Rhetoric, Trauma, Mourning by Trevor Hoag 9781498556583
RRP: $73.50$68.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498556583Author Trevor HoagFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 345g -
Occupying Memory: Rhetoric, Trauma, Mourning by Trevor Hoag 9781498556569
RRP: $189.00$165.50Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one's life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to... -
Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World by Sharon Schuman 9781611494624
RRP: $193.20$169.11Freedom 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,... -
Usloobiyati Tanqeed by Mirza Khaleel Ahmad Beg 9788196376734
RRP: $60.88$42.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196376734Author Mirza Khaleel Ahmad BegFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Alisha PrintersPublisher Alisha PrintersWeight(grams) 195g -
A History of World Literature by Theo D'haen 9781032433042
RRP: $75.58$66.55A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to “world literature.”Tracing the term from its earliest... -
The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture by Lisa Colletta 9781611477993
RRP: $81.90$72.18The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident... -
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines by Jacques Lezra 9781137581990
RRP: $94.48$69.09Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law by Allen Mendenhall 9781611487916
RRP: $157.50$138.39This 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:... -
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics by Alfred Kentigern Siewers 9781611485240
RRP: $214.20$187.19Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as... -
Signs of the Signs: The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon by William Brevda 9781611480429
RRP: $231.00$202.50This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The "sign" is considered in both the architectural and... -
Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning by Nouri Gana 9781611480344
RRP: $182.70$162.18By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying... -
The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture by Lisa Colletta 9781611477979
RRP: $172.20$151.03The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident... -
Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature by Yenna Wu 9780739167410
RRP: $205.80$179.97This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of... -
Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History by Rudyard Alcocer 9781349298105
RRP: $94.48$67.75Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an... -
Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different by Anthony C. Alessandrini 9780739172285
RRP: $237.30$207.10This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon's work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Separate chapters introduce Fanon's life and examine... -
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity by Anne DeLong 9780739170434
RRP: $193.20$169.11Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as... -
CLUJ Fall 2022 by Ucb Cluj 9781312716445
RRP: $230.27$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312716445Author Ucb ClujFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 209g -
The Time Machine and the Domaine: Origins and Functions of Imaginative Literature by Richard W Bevis 9781039124905
RRP: $64.03$44.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039124905Author Richard W BevisFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 835g -
Literary Theories in Praxis by Shirley F. Staton 9780812212341
$68.40Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of Roland Barthes, Harold Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, Jacques... -
Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 9780333531372
$205.07Frank Kermode's work has always been important to students of English literature. In these essays, leading scholars critically assess Kermode's texts and question his representation of literary study, offering their own interpretative strategies.Book... -
Global Semiotics by Thomas A. Sebeok 9780253339577
$79.49The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok,... -
Existential Semiotics by Eero Tarasti 9780253337221
$70.04Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.A fascinating series of essays seeking to define the new philosophical dimension of semiotics.About the... -
Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability by Susan Antebi 9780230613898
RRP: $94.48$68.21This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth century cronicas, to Mario Bellatin's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo... -
Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History by Rudyard J. Alcocer 9780230117983
RRP: $94.48$68.46Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an...