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Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction by Dana Seitler
RRP: £31.00£27.36Reading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American literature. It tracks the crosswise circulation of aesthetic... -
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £78.00£67.86In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. This event took... -
Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility by Jonathan Goldberg
RRP: £20.99£18.37Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such... -
History, the Human, and the World Between by R. Radhakrishnan
RRP: £21.99£19.19History, the Human, and the World Between is a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing. The eminent postcolonial theorist R. Radhakrishnan argues that human... -
Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity by Leerom Medovoi
RRP: £23.99£21.24Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean-these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold... -
The Official World by Mark Seltzer
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 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... -
I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick by Laurence A. Rickels
RRP: £21.99£19.59For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick-though in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writer's work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for... -
The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
RRP: £23.99£20.84In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism. Placing representations of and by women... -
Body and Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict by Richard Terdiman
RRP: £26.50£23.29The title Body and Story refers to the division of categories which establishes one axis of this book: that which lies between the world understood in corporeal or material terms and the world understood as text. Richard Terdiman studies this contest... -
Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism by Robert Weimann
RRP: £26.50£23.29In "Structure and Society in Literary History" Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism. ... -
Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature by Joseph H. Smith
RRP: £27.50£24.12A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.Book InformationISBN 9780801837494Author Joseph H. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Literature and the Question of Philosophy by Anthony J. Cascardi
RRP: £30.50£27.37A distinguished group of authors reflects on problems currently enlivening the space shared by philosophy and literary theory. Contributors include Alexander Nehamas, Dennis Dutton, Charles Altieri, Martha Craven Nussbaum, and others. (Philosophy)About... -
Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson
£27.90First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences--especially Shakespearean ones--on Herman Melville's writing of "Moby-Dick". Olson examines the influence of "King Lear" on Melville's work.One of... -
The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime by Stephen Gilbert Brown
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791461136Author Stephen Gilbert BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Modernism, and Psychology by Dr. Ashley Chantler
RRP: £90.00£81.97Features new critical essays illuminate Ford Madox Ford's First World War modernist masterpiece Parade's End. This is the first full length critical study of Parade's End to focus on the psychological effects of the war. Originally published in 4 volumes... -
Women and the War Story by Miriam Cooke
RRP: £30.00£23.29In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary... -
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism by Victor E. Taylor
RRP: £96.99£84.45The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily... -
The Semiotics of French Gestures by Genevieve Calbris
RRP: £46.00£40.03Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconscious manner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have to speech? How do gestures work to create meaning? In this valuable book, Genevieve Calbris undertakes to... -
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 4: 1879-1884 by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: £50.00£44.41"The volumes are handsomely produced and carefully edited,... For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years... " -The Times Literary Supplement "..... -
Frontiers in Semiotics by John Deely
RRP: £15.99£14.24Semiotics is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most fruitful and exciting fields of intellectual inquiry. Literary scholars, philosophers, social scientists, and students of linguistics and communication are all finding something of value in the... -
Meaning and Mental Representations by Umberto Eco
RRP: £15.99£14.24" . . . an excellent collection . . . " -Journal of Language & Social PsychologyAn important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language.An important... -
Whole Lives: Shapers of Modern Biography by Reed Whittemore
RRP: £26.50£23.29Whole Lives offers an informative-and refreshingly informal-look at one of the most enduringly popular genres.Book InformationISBN 9781421434063Author Reed WhittemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns... -
Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory by Murray Krieger
RRP: £39.00£34.68Orignally published in 1979. Poetic Presence and Illusion brings together Krieger's speculation on literature and its effect on the reader. The poem, Krieger argues, is an illusionary presence and an ever-present illusion. It exists for the reader, like... -
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch by Daniel Tiffany
RRP: £26.50£23.29Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry-a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and... -
Introducing English Studies by Professor Tonya Krouse
RRP: £18.99£16.90From literary studies to digital humanities, Introducing English Studies is a complete introduction to the many fields and sub-disciplines of English studies for majors starting out in the subject for the first time. The book covers topics including:... -
Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data by Andrew Piper
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in the field of literary studies. When working with texts, how can we move, reliably and credibly, from individual observations to more general beliefs about the... -
Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis by Jennifer Spitzer
RRP: £25.99£20.84Secret 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... -
Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy by Alberto Moreiras
RRP: £79.00£68.71In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day to day experiences of the "shelter-in-place" period during the first months of the... -
Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece, Anniversary Edition by Stathis Gourgouris
RRP: £23.99£20.84Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book challenges standard analyses of nation formation by elaborating on the nation's dream-like hold over the modern social imagination... -
The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure by Robert Glenn Davis
RRP: £23.99£20.84Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the... -
The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies by Brooke Rollins
£88.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214244Author Brooke RollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity by Vivasvan Soni
RRP: £50.00£43.81For many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary new idea filled with the promise of the Enlightenment. However, Vivasvan Soni argues that the period fails to establish the importance of happiness as a guiding idea for human practice,... -
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth by William Egginton
RRP: £19.99£17.54This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by demonstrating that interpretation, as described by... -
Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction by Hilary P. Dannenberg
RRP: £39.00£34.52In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least... -
Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern by Horst Ruthrof
RRP: £35.00£33.09In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which... -
Eros in Mourning: From Homer to Lacan by Henry Staten
£30.34Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in... -
Hamlet's Perfection by William J. Kerrigan
RRP: £28.00£24.54In this lively study, Kerrigan celebrates both Hamlet's perfection, the character's creation of new ideals out of an inheritance of disillusionment, and Hamlet's perfection, the play's brilliance as Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Kerrigan's approach... -
Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins
£29.37Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories -- most of them contemporary works -- Perkins elaborates on two fundamental problems that... -
A World of Difference by Barbara Johnson
RRP: £26.50£23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801837456Author Barbara JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)... -
Dreaming and Storytelling by Bert O. States
RRP: £24.99£21.67Are dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but not to be taken too seriously? Is there any reason to think about them at all, other than in terms of questions such as 'Why should Aunt Sarah turn...