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Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism by Mark Royden Winchell 9780813916477
£66.48An account of the influence of Cleanth Brooks, a literary critic, and a survey of literary criticism in 20th-century America. The book explains how Brooks helped to steer literacy study away from historical and philological scholarhips by emphasizing the... -
Crossmedial Semiotics: Converging Narratives of the Picture Book by Peter Pericles Trifonas 9780993895319
RRP: £24.99£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993895319Author Peter Pericles TrifonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PosttextePublisher PosttexteWeight(grams) 299g -
Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse by Marie-Christine Leps 9780822312550
RRP: £85.00£74.21In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how... -
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden 9780801880100
£84.84The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48 new entries and subentries and has been revised... -
Against Literature by John Beverley 9780816622498
RRP: £18.99£16.72Is there a way of thinking about literature that is "outside" or "against" literature? In Against Literature, John Beverly brilliantly responds to this question, arguing for a negation of the literary that would allow nonliterary forms of cultural... -
The Novel and Neoliberalism by Nancy Armstrong 9781478003533
RRP: £11.99£10.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism by Michael Fischer 9780226251417
RRP: £26.00£24.85Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for... -
Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story by Susan Lohafer 9780801873980
£46.69The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer,... -
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino 9780544313156
RRP: £35.00£22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544313156Author Italo CalvinoFormat HardbackImprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 590g -
Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Rae Greiner 9781421406534
£56.60Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of... -
Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature by Michelle Ann Abate 9781421408408
RRP: £50.00£44.13Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. "Bloody Murder" is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in... -
Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature by Robert Mitchell 9781421410883
£53.88If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism... -
Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century by Howard D. Weinbrot 9780801882104
RRP: £60.00£57.55Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from antiquity through the early modern era in Europe and up to the present, the genre often has resisted precise definition and has evoked critical controversy. In this magisterial work, Howard D. Weinbrot... -
A Sense of Measure by Robert Creeley 9780714509129
RRP: £5.95£5.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714509129Author Robert CreeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Construction of an Identity Course: Oriya Literature and the Jagannath Cult 1886 to 1936 by Subhakanta Behera 9788121510417
RRP: £5.99£5.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121510417Author Subhakanta BeheraFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers -
Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy by Theodore Ziolkowski 9781421409580
£40.32Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations-drama,... -
Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France by Philipp Jeserich 9781421411248
RRP: £70.50£62.14Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier,... -
The Cultural Logic of Contemporary Capitalism by Nico Baumbach 9780822368472
RRP: £11.99£10.94In 1984 Fredric Jameson wrote that “everything in our social life—from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself—can be said to have become ‘cultural’ in some original and yet untheorized sense.” The... -
Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years by Robert P. Marzec 9781421400198
£41.48Internationally recognized for its superior scholarship, Modern Fiction Studies was one of the first journals to publish articles on postcolonial studies. Since postcolonialism's inception, scholars have defined, clarified, and enriched its conceptions... -
The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative by Guillemette Bolens 9781421405186
RRP: £58.00£55.29In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and experiencing artistic and literary works. In so doing, Bolens offers a new... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide by Michael Groden 9781421406381
£88.65Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory... -
Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture by Lisa Zunshine 9781421406169
£32.04We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we... -
New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come by Julian Wolfreys 9780748699643
£26.39This book introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking. Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of 'theory' today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go... -
Theoretical Issues in Literary History by David Perkins 9780674879133
RRP: £21.95£17.62Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of "close"... -
The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge by David Simpson 9780226759500
RRP: £24.00£23.03This critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Simpson examines defining features of postmodern thought -... -
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts by Frederick Luis Aldama 9780292721579
RRP: £50.00£28.91Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other... -
Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution by Peter Swirski 9780292721784
RRP: £45.00£25.77In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic... -
Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance by Jonathan Goldberg 9780804719582
RRP: £32.00£29.96A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Some 25 years ago Derrida called for a 'cultural graphology' which would study the material practices, institutions, and ideologies of writing. Goldberg takes up this call. . . . He adds a political edge by... -
The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination by Christopher Collins 9780812213607
£28.13Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that... -
Traffic Jams: Analysing Everyday Life Through the Immanent Materialism of Deleuze & Guattari by David R Cole 9780615767000
RRP: £18.00£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615767000Author David R ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm -
Gods & Heroes of the Media Age: From Captain Nemo to The X-Files by John David Ebert 9780985480295
RRP: £15.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985480295Author John David EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Post Egoism MediaPublisher Post Egoism MediaWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto by Dj Readies 9780615612034
RRP: £19.00£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615612034Author Dj ReadiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 77g -
Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture by Todd W. Reeser 9780807892879
RRP: £34.95£33.91Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and... -
Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard by Roberto Campo 9780807892619
RRP: £34.95£33.44This book examines Ronsard's participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut... -
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide Kirby Morris 9780807846704
RRP: £55.00£52.03By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk... -
The Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Siecle des Lumieres by Julia De Pree 9780807892626
RRP: £29.95£28.19This study delineates a theory of epistolary epic that refutes historical notions of a siecle sans poesie. It argues that monophonic, epistolary texts written during the Ancien Regime both reflect and resist the classical legacy and at the same time... -
Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday by Lyn Hejinian 9780819580856
RRP: £19.95£17.67Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential... -
Does Literary Studies Have a Future? by Eugene Goodheart 9780299166540
RRP: £14.95£13.14An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study... -
Presenting the Past: Philosophical Irony and the Rhetoric of Double Vision from Bishop Butler to T. S. Eliot by Memorial University of Newfoundland 9780920604892
RRP: £15.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920604892Author Memorial University of NewfoundlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint English Literary StudiesPublisher English Literary... -
Beginning with the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief by Roger Lundin 9780801027260
£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801027260Author R LundinFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher Baker Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...