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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery by C. Kaplan
£48.30This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the... -
Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique: Epic Proportions by Katharine Burkitt
RRP: £43.99£38.44Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that these... -
The Novel and the Problem of New Life by Aaron Matz
RRP: £75.00£67.74The novel since the nineteenth century has displayed a thorny ambivalence toward the question of having children. In its representation of human vitality it can seem to promote the giving of life, but again and again it betrays a nagging doubt about the... -
Noir Affect by Christopher Breu
RRP: £31.00£27.36Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time... -
Imperial Babel: Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century by Padma Rangarajan
RRP: £39.00£34.12At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in... -
Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form by Kevin Ohi
RRP: £31.00£27.36The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the... -
Theory Aside by Jason Potts
RRP: £22.99£20.01Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better served worrying less about "what's next?" and more about... -
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical... -
Trespasses: Selected Writings by Masao Miyoshi
RRP: £23.99£20.84Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi... -
Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction by Susan Meyer
RRP: £108.00£93.40The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Bronte, Emily... -
Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women by Margit Stange
RRP: £26.50£23.29In Personal Property, Margit Stange analyzes white slavery literature in relation to other key American writings of the time by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Jane Addams, and Kate Chopin. The anthropological theory of the exchange of women... -
Renaissance Literatures and Postcolonial Studies by Shankar Raman
RRP: £23.99£21.85Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'. In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those... -
Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Foucault, Barthes and Althusser by Michael Payne
RRP: £95.95£84.87Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge. His careful reading reveals their profound commitment... -
Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn by Bruce McConachie
RRP: £51.99£45.19This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies - with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas -... -
Reading Images by Julia Thomas
£40.15Is seeing a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? Reading Images draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different... -
Is Language a Music?: Writings on Musical Form and Signification by David Lidov
RRP: £31.00£27.76Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to... -
The Pleasures of Contamination: Evidence, Text, and Voice in Textual Studies by David C. Greetham
£24.86Through the concept of contamination, David Greetham highlights various ways that one text may invade another, carrying with it a residue of potential meaning. While the focus of this study is on written works, the scope ranges widely over music,... -
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory by Paul Hamilton
RRP: £32.00£31.11Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally... -
Spaces of Feeling: Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature by Marta Figlerowicz
RRP: £51.00£44.26Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are... -
A History of Icelandic Literature by Stefan Einarsson
RRP: £43.00£38.12Originally published in 1957. Stefan Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in... -
Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction by Wendy Olmsted
RRP: £31.95£28.29This 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... -
Indo-German Exchanges in Education: Rabindranath Tagore Meets Paul and Edith Geheeb by Martin Kämpchen
RRP: £41.99£38.60In 1930, when Rabindranath Tagore met Paul and Edith Geheeb in Germany, they formed a fruitful and long-term association resulting in the exchange of ideas and vision. Tagore's Brahmacharya Ashram, founded in 1901 in Shantiniketan, and the Geheeb's... -
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum by Charlotte Beyer
RRP: £109.99£98.73This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media,... -
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls
£71.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215241Author Mitchum HuehlsFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being by Eleanor Kaufman
RRP: £54.00£47.56Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude... -
Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History by Orrin N. C. Wang
RRP: £66.50£58.70This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes... -
The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention by Garrett Stewart
RRP: £108.00£97.07In The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the best literary writing is founded. Emerging out of... -
The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century by Robert Buch
RRP: £54.00£47.56This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering-and the difficulties involved in capturing... -
Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832 by Richard C. Sha
RRP: £51.50£45.81Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and... -
Global Crusoe: Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics by Ann Marie Fallon
RRP: £49.99£43.50Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the huge variety of contemporary incarnations of Daniel Defoe's intrepid character. In her study of the novels, poems, short... -
Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £87.00£75.53First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of... -
Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida by Geoffrey Bennington
RRP: £103.00£89.14What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this... -
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
RRP: £31.00£27.36Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points... -
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England by Jordan Kirk
RRP: £25.99£22.49Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in... -
Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain by David K. Herzberger
RRP: £19.99£17.54The relationship between fiction and historiography in Francoist Spain (1939-1975) is a contentious one. The intricacies of this relationship, in which fiction works to subvert the regime's authority to write the past, are the focus of David K... -
The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject by Toby Miller
RRP: £25.00£22.03In "The Well-Tempered Self", Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Miller argues that capitalism's democratic politics requires selfless, community-minded... -
Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism by Dr. Julie Taylor
RRP: £90.00£81.97Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' textual corpus. Julie Taylor uses the writings of the American novelist, poet, dramatist, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes to form the basis of a series of disruptive... -
Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £35.00£27.74In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses... -
Body Transformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture by Alphonso Lingis
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book presents some eruptions of archaic compulsions and behaviors and the forms that they acquire in contemporary societies. It explores how we see and feel our bodies and some of the ways evolution and culture are transforming them.About the... -
Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method by Michael J Shapiro
RRP: £36.99£32.53Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods and events, the book features a series of...