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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: €30.93€26.93The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: €34.50€27.82Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and... -
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader by Patrick Williams 9780745014913
RRP: €59.49€57.41This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.Book InformationISBN 9780745014913Author Patrick... -
Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: €35.70€27.16Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: €24.99€21.13Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: €11.89€8.87Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do... -
Italo Calvino's Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino
RRP: €20.23€17.52The words 'Anthropocene animals' conjure pictures of dead albatrosses' bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction and... -
Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism by Catherine Nicholson
RRP: €33.32€25.42The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter... -
Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery by Zachary Sng
RRP: €64.26€54.68Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a... -
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, With a New Introduction by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €28.55€24.29This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language. Responding to questions put to him at a roundtable held at Villanova... -
The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity by Catherine Malabou
RRP: €11.89€10.65In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a... -
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Bevis
RRP: €10.70€8.33To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a... -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's... -
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies by Lisa Zunshine
RRP: €39.27€38.14Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and... -
Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin 9780823285747
RRP: €33.31€28.16Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world's cultural, political, and... -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive... -
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon 9780415280167
RRP: €42.83€37.71This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to... -
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780195074857
€90.54This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.27€12.08A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic... -
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by M. H. Abrams
RRP: €23.79€17.47This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.Reviews"One of the five works published within the last thirty years which in the opinion of representative scholars and critics... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €23.74€19.24Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: €26.17€22.36Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: €11.89€8.87A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) ... -
The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics by Giorgio Agamben 9780804730228
RRP: €26.17€22.57This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among... -
Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
RRP: €17.84€16.24Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary... -
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity by Carl Phelpstead 9780708323915
RRP: €23.79€18.12Tolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.About the AuthorDr Phelpstead is a Reader in English literature at Cardiff... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: €10.70€7.68This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the... -
Criticism: Ideas in Profile by Catherine Belsey 9781781254509
RRP: €11.89€8.56Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics,... -
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White 9781421415604
RRP: €31.54€27.63Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: €40.45€35.70What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
RRP: €23.79€20.96In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in... -
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design by Gunther Kress
RRP: €45.21€40.20This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook... -
The Bataille Reader by Fred Botting 9780631199595
RRP: €48.73€42.71Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy,... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: €21.41€19.09This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
The Jacqueline Rose Reader by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: €32.12€27.67Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and... -
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution by Ian Duncan
RRP: €35.70€27.16A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow
RRP: €26.18€20.22Leadership, 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... -
Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods 9780719079962
RRP: €14.27€10.20'Postmodernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the... -
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser 9780801844997
RRP: €28.56€25.17"Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field...