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Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227693
RRP: $147.00$126.65This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders-the more outlandish the better, with human... -
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic by Jacques Lezra 9780823232369
RRP: $67.20$59.24Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of heterogeneity? Does such unity require corresponding... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370512
RRP: $50.38$43.76Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370321
RRP: $199.50$173.73Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both... -
The Official World by Mark Seltzer 9780822360865
RRP: $178.50$155.00In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for... -
The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs 9780822349921
RRP: $199.50$173.73The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which... -
The Creolization of Theory by Francoise Lionnet 9780822348320
RRP: $186.90$163.00Introducing this collection of essays, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines-offers a way for scholars in the humanities to... -
The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David L. Eng 9780822347156
RRP: $178.50$155.00In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"-the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle,... -
Explorations in Poetics by Barbara Harshav 9780804755146
RRP: $182.70$158.61This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not... -
Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory by Sanford Budick 9780804724838
RRP: $62.98$56.49The articulation of the unsayable, of negativity-that which has been excluded by what is sayable-is one of the most important areas of contemporary humanistic study. This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to... -
The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History by Murray Krieger 9780804720984
RRP: $58.78$50.69First published in 1987, this rich variety of essays confronts the changes in theories of the text and textuality that have seen a shift in focus from the author as a controlling agent to the scene of writing itself and the historical forces that produce... -
Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft by Tilottama Rajan 9780801897214
RRP: $121.80$107.08Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation... -
Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by David Herman 9780801895531
RRP: $123.90$108.91Dame 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... -
Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death by R.Clifton Spargo 9780801883118
$118.55Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of... -
Verbal Art: A Philosophy of Literature and Literary Experience by Anders Pettersson 9780773520684
RRP: $216.30$96.33Pettersson demonstrates the implications and applications of the theory through a series of detailed studies of literary works, taking care to show that his theory is compatible with a broad variety of perspectives. Combining an intimate knowledge of... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: $94.50$74.17Site 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... -
Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle by Michelle Zerba 9780691632612
RRP: $228.90$178.10Michelle 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,... -
Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History by Claudio Guillen 9780691620527
RRP: $151.20$118.04Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation by Susan Rubin Suleiman 9780691615844
RRP: $136.50$106.91A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of... -
Poetry in Pieces: Cesar Vallejo and Lyric Modernity by Michelle Clayton 9780520262294
RRP: $73.50$58.25Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, "Poetry in Pieces" is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two... -
Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory by Jorg Schweinitz 9780231151481
RRP: $184.80$144.38Since 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... -
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by Ann W. Astell 9780268032609
RRP: $33.58$29.90A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own situation in a world where the aura of art has decayed... -
Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data by Heather Houser 9780231187329
RRP: $245.70$191.79How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What... -
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by Eric Hayot 9780231165204
RRP: $184.80$144.38Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an... -
Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment by Maria Lara 9780231140300
RRP: $105.00$82.15Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, Maria Pia Lara explores what has changed... -
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism David Fuller (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham) 9780198186397
$107.71This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen... -
The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan 9780195062724
$122.43While affirming the profound importance of political analysis, Hogan is critical of prevalent doctrines. Specifically, Hogan examines and criticizes several influential post-structuralist positions, advocating logical analysis and empirical enquiry,... -
Computing as Writing by Daniel Punday 9780816697021
RRP: $44.08$38.58This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices ("notebook" computers) through the design of user interfaces (the "desktop") to how we describe the work of programmers... -
Qu'est-Ce Qu'une Promesse?: Poetica Et Analytica by Per Aage Brandt 9788772883984
RRP: $22.05$17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772883984Author Per Aage BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Canonical Texts of English Literacy Criticism: With Selections from Classical Poeticians by Kapil Kapoor 9788171881093
$55.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171881093Author Kapil KapoorFormat HardbackPage Count 317Imprint Academic FoundationPublisher Academic Foundation -
Meaning in Communication, Cognition and Reality: Outline of a Theory from Semiotics, Philosophy and Sociology by Martin Staude 9781845402297
$44.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402297Author Martin StaudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 500g -
Chinese Semiotic Thoughts in the Pre-imperial Age by Dong Zhu 9789819959853
RRP: $230.98$219.70This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective. Although the Chinese civilization did not develop a comprehensive semiotics system in that period, they are... -
Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer by David Stromberg 9781611496642
RRP: $178.50$27.20Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways-both in the themes... -
Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities by Carlos Riobo 9781611480368
RRP: $184.80$161.89Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic... -
Intention Interpretation by Gary Iseminger 9781566393461
RRP: $79.80$69.87A complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionA complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionAbout the AuthorGary Iseminger, William H. Laird Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, has... -
The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards 9781517901288
RRP: $44.08$38.58An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and... -
The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous by Erin E. Edwards 9781517901271
RRP: $186.90$162.16An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and... -
Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America by Brian Russell Roberts 9781478010739
RRP: $199.50$173.73Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other... -
Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Nathan Snaza 9781478004158
RRP: $178.50$155.00In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial... -
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution by Jeremy Matthew Glick 9781479844425
RRP: $155.40$136.192017 Nicolas Guillen Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association As the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable...