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How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: £21.99£19.19How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony... -
The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics by Giorgio Agamben 9780804730228
RRP: £19.99£17.54This 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... -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: £14.99£12.15To 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,... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: £20.99£18.37Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
The Kristeva Reader Toril Moi (Duke University and University of Bergen) 9780631149316
RRP: £21.95£19.32Julia 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... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: £21.00£17.76Why 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... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £8.99£6.61This 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... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: £9.99£7.67Science 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: £17.00£14.72The 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... -
Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery by Zachary Sng
RRP: £54.00£46.79Romanticism 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... -
Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion by Richard J Hand
RRP: £20.99£19.25This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad... -
Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art by Reginald Gibbons
RRP: £28.00£27.39"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: £19.99£17.69It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach by Marco Caracciolo 9783110552997
RRP: £18.00£15.45Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses,... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: £15.99£11.61In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists, novelists, poets, painters and film-makers who have... -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object 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... -
Poetic Form: An Introduction by Michael D. Hurley 9780521774994
RRP: £25.99£20.94Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and... -
Economics for Lovers of Literature by Geraint Johnes 9783031264856
RRP: £19.99£14.90This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens. Drawing on writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell, each chapter is framed around a quote from a... -
Perfume by Megan Volpert
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object 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 Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by M. H. Abrams
RRP: £20.99£14.68This 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... -
Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: £30.00£23.29Since 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... -
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780195074857
RRP: £55.00£36.10This 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... -
Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: £25.99£22.63What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part... -
The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre) 9780745652610
RRP: £9.99£8.95In 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... -
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank
£29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459485Author Manfred FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9780745014913
RRP: £49.99£48.24This 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... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.67A 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 Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: £25.99£22.63The 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... -
Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature by Edwin Bikundo 9780367548919
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the... -
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White 9781421415604
RRP: £26.50£23.69Since 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... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £8.99£6.45The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural... -
Criticism: Ideas in Profile by Catherine Belsey 9781781254509
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ideas 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,... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
RRP: £19.99£17.61In 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... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
£38.14Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format... -
Intertextuality Graham Allen (University College, Cork, Ireland) 9781032122557
RRP: £19.99£17.69This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: £17.99£16.04This 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... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £15.95£13.10One-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... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: £28.99£23.38Through 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... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: £27.50£24.12Iser 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... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow
RRP: £22.00£17.36Leadership, 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...