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Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity by Marshall Wise Alcorn 9780814706657
RRP: £24.99£21.67What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault,... -
Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity by Marshall W. Alcorn 9780814706145
£89.88What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault,... -
City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures by Barbara Buchenau 9780814215524
£61.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215524Author Barbara BuchenauFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature by Maria Nikolajeva 9780810842502
£105.48Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to... -
Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory by Bella Brodzki 9780804755429
RRP: £23.99£20.84Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration-indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions-rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting the terms of one language into another. Brodzki... -
The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments by Anke K. Finger 9780801895821
£88.17In The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork, artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term "... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895548
£31.61Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were... -
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage by Lubomir Dolezel 9780801894633
£56.45With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomir Dole el reexamines the claim-made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White-that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history." Dole el rejects this assertion... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801887468
RRP: £35.00£31.64This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major... -
Theories of Memory: A Reader by Michael Rossington 9780801887291
RRP: £37.00£34.05Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through which students of literature will be able both to broaden their knowledge of contemporary theoretical perspectives and to... -
The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 by David Marshall 9780801882333
RRP: £47.50£41.97Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested... -
The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading by Helen Rugueiro Elam 9780801881879
£53.79Over the past four decades, Geoffrey Hartman's voice has been one of the most important and profound in contemporary literary theory. Most noted for his scholarship on Wordsworth and Romanticism, Hartman developed throughout his work an original... -
The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot by Kevin Hart 9780801879623
RRP: £47.50£41.97One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's... -
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject by Carolyn J. Dean 9780801499548
RRP: £15.99£14.24Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular... -
Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death by Laura E. Tanner 9780801473135
RRP: £27.99£24.14"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."-from the Introduction American popular culture... -
Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture by Marvin A. Carlson 9780801422546
RRP: £50.00£43.81"A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban... -
The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject by Paul Virilio 9780745648637
£40.06With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
RRP: £35.00£27.74Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley,... -
Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle by Michelle Zerba 9780691603247
RRP: £45.00£35.32Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy,... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691183343
RRP: £30.00£23.29Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the... -
The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher 9780691115726
RRP: £35.00£27.74Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will... -
Writing Outside the Nation by Azade Seyhan 9780691050997
RRP: £45.00£35.32Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language. Here Azade Seyhan describes the domain of transnational poetics they inhabit. She begins by examining the works of selected... -
Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity by William Kuskin 9780268206758
RRP: £83.00£72.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268206758Author William KuskinFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow 9780231188364
RRP: £95.00£74.11Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability-such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive... -
Information: A Reader by Eric Hayot 9780231186209
RRP: £92.00£71.81For decades, we have been told we live in the "information age"-a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such... -
Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory by Jorg Schweinitz 9780231151498
£31.41Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliche, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's the high-noon showdown or the last-minute rescue, a... -
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee by Patrick Hayes 9780198805281
£89.74In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient... -
Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form by Sandra Macpherson 9780801893841
£54.42Conventional studies of the 18th-century novel link the form's evolution to the emergence of a modern liberal subject whose actions and attachments are imagined to be voluntary and intentional. Sandra Macpherson challenges this account of modernity,... -
Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge by Natalia Cecire 9781421433769
£88.47A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental... -
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman 9781421431475
£84.35A reimagining of how the aesthetic movement of the Victorian era ushered in modern queer theory.Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose... -
Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science by Patrick Whitmarsh 9781503633001
RRP: £70.00£60.31Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global... -
Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy by Georges Van Den Abbeele 9781531503291
RRP: £91.00£78.92Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical... -
Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst by Amy Allen 9780271084787
RRP: £27.95£24.50This work is both an introduction to and a critical appraisal of the work of Rainer Forst, one of the most important political theorists in Germany today. Structured for classroom use, this collection of original essays engages with Forst's extant corpus... -
British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 by D. Tucker 9781349317868
RRP: £44.99£40.58This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes... -
Modern Critical Thought: An Anthology of Theorists Writing on Theorists by D Milne 9780631220589
RRP: £115.95£100.58This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. * Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. *... -
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 by Hale 9781405107730
RRP: £118.95£104.32The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. * Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other... -
Obstruction by Nick Salvato 9780822360988
RRP: £21.99£19.19Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be... -
Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in Fiction by Linda Schermer Raphael 9780838639009
£102.46Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about... -
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 9780823278602
RRP: £103.00£89.14Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points... -
Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Michelle Neely 9780823288205
RRP: £25.99£22.49Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings...