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The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $46.18$39.46In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words... -
The Semiotics of Love by Marcel Danesi 9783030181109
RRP: $41.98$24.51The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological... -
From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe by Peter Y. Paik
RRP: $41.98$36.90"I read Peter Y. Paik's lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." -Bruce Sterling Revolutionary narratives in recent science... -
The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781474427784
RRP: $58.78$47.48This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.Book InformationISBN 9781474427784Author Jerrold E. HogleFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Sourcebook of Magic Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns by L. Michael Hall 9781904424253
RRP: $42.00$33.26In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: $56.68$47.99This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
RRP: $48.28$45.95Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being... -
The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader by Sandra Harding 9780822349570
RRP: $58.78$50.53For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture by Catherine Belsey 9780631168140
RRP: $81.80$71.82In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in... -
Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric by Bruce Krajewski 9780870238154
RRP: $50.30$40.93A venture into the realm of contemporary literary theory, this book takes as its point of departure ""the nexus between philosophical hermeneutics and rhetoric"" that Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses in his writings. But rather that explicating Gadamer's... -
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $27.28$23.75This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $35.68$23.44Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political... -
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation by Professor John Guillory 9780226830599
RRP: $50.40$49.20An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $62.90$55.88In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler 9780804728126
RRP: $54.58$46.28As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is... -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: $56.70$50.65Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist... -
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $62.98$54.58Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott 9781108823357
RRP: $52.48$45.74What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction,... -
Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By by Arran Stibbe 9781350263116
RRP: $52.48$42.92Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
RRP: $56.68$47.88This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the... -
Sewer by Jessica Leigh Hester
RRP: $20.98$15.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of disease, such as COVID-19? Why are sewers spitting... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $57.75$49.64Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan 9780745659893
RRP: $84.00$73.65"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: $7.33$5.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295770Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $62.98$55.42These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy
RRP: $52.48$47.06Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been... -
Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis
RRP: $57.65$51.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954712Author David EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction by Susan Meyer 9780801482557
RRP: $73.50$63.34The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte,... -
Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $44.08$37.76Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation,... -
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare by Sally Weintrobe
RRP: $48.28$39.65Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also... -
Pencil by Carol Beggy 9781501392245
RRP: $20.98$15.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,... -
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini 9781915812186
RRP: $27.28$18.77In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: $75.58$66.55An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederstrom 9780745655611
RRP: $33.58$32.78Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said 9780674961876
$73.56This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $33.50$26.88One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation... -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: $31.48$24.93To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death,... -
The Kristeva Reader by Toril Moi
RRP: $46.10$40.57Julia Kristeva is one of Europe's most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in such diverse areas as linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. The Kristeva Reader is a fully-comprehensive, easily accessible...