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The Lukacs Reader by Arpad Kadarkay 9781557865717
RRP: £40.95£35.89One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader , his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output... -
Deleuze: A Critical Reader by Paul Patton 9781557865656
RRP: £41.95£36.73Paul Patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by French- and English-speaking scholars of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the most important post-war French philosophers. A number of these pieces address Deleuze's original... -
Edward Said: A Critical Reader by Michael Sprinker 9781557862297
RRP: £38.95£34.20This volume is the first book-length examination of Said's remarkable career, providing a critical survey of his writings and an interim assessment of his achievements in both the cultural and political spheres. This collection includes essays on the... -
Deleuze: A Critical Reader by Paul Patton 9781557865649
RRP: £118.95£105.67Paul Patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by French-- and English--speaking scholars of Gilles Deleuze (1925--1995), one of the most important post--war French philosophers. A number of these pieces address Deleuzea s original... -
Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities by Navid Kermani 9781509500338
RRP: £55.00£47.73What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the... -
This Is Not a Copy: Writing at the Iterative Turn by Kaja Marczewska 9781501357336
RRP: £33.99£11.36In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic 'copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction and plagiarizing to become a norm in cultural production. This inclination can be observed in... -
Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde by Emmett Stinson 9781501348082
RRP: £33.99£10.78Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The... -
Literature: Why It Matters by Robert Eaglestone 9781509532315
RRP: £35.00£30.87'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But,... -
Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion by Giulia Sissa 9781509511846
RRP: £55.00£47.73Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is... -
In Praise of Literature by Zygmunt Bauman 9781509502684
RRP: £50.00£43.91In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many... -
Avidly Reads Theory by Jordan Alexander Stein 9781479827398
RRP: £71.00£22.08Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly-an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books-specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant 9781478005001
RRP: £97.00£31.05Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect,... -
Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire by Pramod K. Nayar 9781444338560
RRP: £95.95£83.18This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped... -
Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety by Hermann Herlinghaus 9781441107787
£38.75Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.' Dealing with literary works and films whose characteristics are linked to illicit global exchange, informal labor, violence,... -
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys by Gregory L. Ulmer 9781421430614
RRP: £39.00£37.63Originally published in 1984. In Applied Grammatology, Gregory Ulmer provides an extraordinary introduction to the third, "applied" phase of grammatology, the "science of writing," outlined by Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology. Ulmer looks to the later... -
From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture by Roslynn D. Haynes 9781421423043
RRP: £30.50£27.77They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and... -
Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective: Semiotics and Responsibilities by Susan Petrilli 9781412810678
RRP: £135.00£117.68Language is the species-specific human version of the animal system of communication. In contrast to non-human animals, language enables humans to invent a plurality of possible worlds; reflect upon signs; be responsible for our actions; gain conscious... -
Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope by Michael Bailey 9781405194945
RRP: £29.95£26.61Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and... -
A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture by Laura Marcus 9781405188609
RRP: £94.95£82.72This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range... -
Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn by David Wallace 9781405151528
RRP: £36.95£32.51This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in... -
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism by Mr. Walter Jost 9781405149570
RRP: £48.95£43.63A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe... -
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History by M. A. R. Habib 9781405176675
RRP: £86.95£75.52Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. *... -
In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century by Daniel R. Schwarz 9781405130981
RRP: £79.50£69.18Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable... -
The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods by Herman Rapaport 9781405170482
RRP: £75.95£66.57The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. * Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning... -
Against Transgression by Ashley Tauchert 9781405169899
RRP: £20.75£18.32Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from Transgression, Against... -
The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell 9781405124751
RRP: £91.95£81.47Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. * A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". * Written by one of the world's leading... -
Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction by Wendy Olmsted 9781405117722
RRP: £88.95£77.22This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. * An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and... -
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory by Tejumola Olaniyan 9781405112000
RRP: £110.95£97.52This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. * Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate * Covers all genres and critical schools * Provides the intellectual context for... -
Chotti Munda and His Arrow by Mahasweta Devi 9781405107051
RRP: £33.95£29.98Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital issues that have in subsequent decades grown into matters of... -
Chotti Munda and His Arrow by Mahasweta Devi 9781405107044
RRP: £98.75£85.94'I had but that one arrow', says Chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A 'magic' arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture of their society, a society threatened with inevitable disintegration as its traditional structures crumbled... -
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words by Sangeeta Ray 9781405103183
RRP: £30.95£27.45This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. * Focuses on the key themes to emerge from Spivak's work, such as ethics,... -
The Idea of English Ethnicity by Robert J. C. Young 9781405101288
RRP: £89.95£78.47In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the... -
A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman 9781405168069
RRP: £45.95£41.11This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field.Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject.Major sections focus... -
Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account by Dr. Betty Milan 9798765106198
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765106198Author Dr. Betty MilanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Reading Madeleine L’Engle: Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature by Heidi A. Lawrence 9781032486994
RRP: £135.00£117.28Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels from her three Time, Austin family, and O’Keefe family series as... -
Tone by Sofia Samatar 9780231211208
RRP: £68.00£52.77Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of “I know... -
Essays on Fiction 1971-82 by Sir Frank Kermode 9781138859050
RRP: £43.99£38.44In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman... -
Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres by Walter Goebel 9781138851634
RRP: £45.99£40.13This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to... -
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature by Peter Schwenger 9781138830196
RRP: £36.99£32.53Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of 'masculine' styles of writing in the twentieth century - an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when 'virility has become self-conscious'. Writers who carry macho values to their extreme often... -
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature by Peter Schwenger 9781138830189
RRP: £135.00£117.28Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of 'masculine' styles of writing in the twentieth century - an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when 'virility has become self-conscious'. Writers who carry macho values to their extreme often...