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The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler 9780801487934
RRP: £21.99£16.36The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification-the rules and conventions that determine a... -
The Dynamics of Literary Response by Norman N. Holland 9780393007909
RRP: £22.50£18.98Reading a poem or a novel, seeing a play or a film, is a special kind of experience. Yet the essential nature of that experience has remained a mystery. Philosophers have discussed the writer's role, and critics the writer's craft, but there has been... -
A Study of Literature: For Readers and Critics by David Daiches 9780393002690
RRP: £18.50£15.62"Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of events which never in fact occurred?" The question is elementary - and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study, it is the elementary questions that are never answered... -
On Literature by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco 9780156032391
RRP: £19.95£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032391Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 327g -
Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment, and Planet by Yvonne Reddick 9783031393884
RRP: £109.99£96.42Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place,... -
The Limits of Theory by Thomas M. Kavanagh 9780804717106
RRP: £24.99£21.67This collection of eight essays by some of today's most innovative and seminal thinkers argues that there is a limit beyond which the enterprise of literary theory becomes something different from what it presents itself as being. These writers ask, in... -
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States by Gregory L. Lucente 9780804728300
RRP: £23.99£20.84Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Though... -
The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No by Aaron Hillyer 9781623561710
£120.00In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and... -
Political Stylistics: Popular Language as Literary Artifact by Pascale Gaitet 9781032748863
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1992, Political Stylistics draws together ideas about society and language from a range of theorists including Pratt, Bourdieu, Goody and Watt, and Bakhtin, to establish a political stylistics: a way of studying the formal properties... -
Space Rover by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair 9781501399954
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many... -
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon 9781501391118
£70.20Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what is emerging as perhaps the theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape - from the present, from history, from the existential -... -
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication by Marcel Danesi 9780802083296
RRP: £35.00£30.74Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is... -
Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding by Floyd Merrell 9780802037046
RRP: £74.00£64.85In Sensing Corporeally, Floyd Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms. Focusing on qualitative and analogical sensing, rather... -
Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide by Patrick Collier 9781350195059
RRP: £65.00£36.75Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson 9780822354031
RRP: £99.00£86.14This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History by Michael O'Sullivan 9781472568359
£38.14Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of... -
Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee by Vincent P. Pecora 9780268038991
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the... -
Cultural Repertoires: Structure, Function and Dynamics by H. L. J. Vanstiphout 9789042912991
£55.98It is apparent that every linguistic and literary tradition will wish to distinguish broad periods in its historical evolution. One way of demarcating such periods is by isolating and identifying dominant "repertoires" of texts, styles or types, which... -
From First to Third Via Cybersemiotics: A Festscrift Honoring Professor Soren Brier on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday by Thorkild Thellefsen 9788770710282
RRP: £30.00£24.52This is a festscrift made to honour the great scholarly work of Professor Soren Brier The festschrift contains articles written by international scholars within academic fields such as: semiotics, library and information science, 2. order cybernetics,... -
Dominik Tatarka: the Slovak Don Quixote: (Freedom and Dreams) by Maria Batorova 9783631668405
RRP: £40.90£33.50The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work... -
Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce by Leonardo F. Lisi 9780823245321
RRP: £39.00£34.52Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe 9780822345916
RRP: £87.00£75.53Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary... -
Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday by Lyn Hejinian 9780819580849
RRP: £70.50£64.63Considers 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... -
Mothering India: Women's Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History (1890-1947) by Susmita Roye 9780190126254
£76.09Mothering India addresses this lack and concentrates on early Indian women's fiction written between 1890 and 1947. It not only evaluates the influence of women authors on the rise of IWE, but also explores how they reassessed and challenged... -
Creativity in Its Contexts by Chris Morash 9781874675679
RRP: £5.99£5.59Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing... -
Author, the Book and the Reader by Robert Giddings 9781871551013
RRP: £9.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551013Author Robert GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature by Nigel Fabb 9781839984792
RRP: £80.00£76.48This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The unifying characteristic of these 'strong experiences' is... -
Reaganism in Literary Theory: Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion by Jeremiah Bowen 9781785272783
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272783Author Jeremiah BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
A Course in Cyborg Semiotics by Mick Howard 9781793626851
RRP: £77.00£67.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793626851Author Mick HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces by Edina Krompak 9781788923859
RRP: £39.95£33.55How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educational spaces and practices they inhabit? Building on enquiries into the linguistic landscapes of public... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev 9781684480913
RRP: £85.00£74.21Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
The Dialogic Self by Roxanne J. Fand 9781575910222
£102.19Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists.Book InformationISBN 9781575910222Author Roxanne J. FandFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University... -
New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life by Christopher Rovee 9781531505110
RRP: £91.00£78.92New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with... -
Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis by Jennifer Spitzer 9781531502089
RRP: £94.00£75.53Secret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer... -
The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin 9781531501686
RRP: £91.00£78.92The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s... -
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature by Annabel L Kim 9781517910877
RRP: £97.00£77.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517910877Author Annabel L KimFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature by David Simpson 9781503632745
RRP: £81.00£64.45Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or... -
Critique of Critique by Roy Ben-Shai 9781503632684
RRP: £70.00£60.31What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book... -
The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal by Michael Steinberg 9781503631144
RRP: £81.00£64.45In this elegant and personal new work, Michael Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics-of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the... -
The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy by Mark Christian Thompson 9781503631137
RRP: £108.00£85.74How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological conception of racist police violence? In this important new work, Mark Christian Thompson attempts to answer these...