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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture by Lauren Berlant
RRP: €30.93€26.23The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and... -
Antigones by George Steiner
RRP: €39.26€33.83The Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.Book InformationISBN 9780192819345Author George SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *... -
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
RRP: €45.21€41.58What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns... -
The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences by Brewster Ghiselin
RRP: €29.75€25.22This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,... -
Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye
RRP: €20.22€14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027809Author Northrop FryeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman
RRP: €26.17€22.36Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: €40.45€37.38What 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... -
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum
RRP: €23.79€22.04Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from... -
On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices by Roger Chartier
€30.30The importance of history has been powerfully reaffirmed in recent years by the appearance of major new authors, pathbreaking works, and fresh interpretations of historical events, trends, and methods. Responding to these developments, Roger Chartier... -
The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work by Louise M. Rosenblatt
RRP: €34.45€27.80Louise M. Rosenblatt's award-winning work continues increasingly to be read in a wide range of academic fields literary criticism, reading theory, aesthetics, composition, rhetoric, speech communication, and education. Her view of the reading transaction... -
The Mammoth Book of Lost Symbols: A Dictionary of the Hidden Language of Symbolism by Nadia Julien
RRP: €13.08€8.39Humanity has always used symbols-material objects used to denote difficult, abstract concepts-to describe thoughts and feelings, or to protect secret truths from common knowledge. This concise A-Z guide is a fascinating work of reference that brings to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities by Jeffrey Cohen
RRP: €32.12€27.13This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €35.64€33.13In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty 9781478009580
RRP: €27.36€23.32In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz 9780465093557
€32.92In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... -
Posthumanism by Pramod K. Nayar
RRP: €19.03€17.93This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical... -
Literature in Contexts by Peter Barry
RRP: €23.79€17.28Is it possible to return the literary text in all its particularity to the centre of literary study, without going back to the 'words-on-the page' myopia of the past? That is the primary question which Literature in contexts engages with. In the 1980s... -
Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents by Vassiliki Kolocotroni
RRP: €34.50€29.01Modernism is the movement which attempts to redefine the relationship between art and life, seeking to establish a mode of thought to account for new and radical practices in both realms. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and... -
Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman
RRP: €29.74€25.74Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop
RRP: €23.79€20.38In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: €19.03€13.82In 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... -
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines by Stuart Murray 9781350172173
€19.53Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: €17.84€11.66In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: €23.79€22.04It 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... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: €27.36€23.32Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
€28.70"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More,... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: €47.60€36.82World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: €35.64€27.60A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.About the AuthorPeter Brooks is... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: €56.53€49.52A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and... -
Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence by Roger C. Shank 9780810113138
RRP: €33.26€26.87How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this pathbreaking study by an expert on learning and computers, Roger C. Schank argues that artificial... -
Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry
€21.23Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying... -
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: €40.40€32.48Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: €32.12€27.19"The publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions." Women's Review of Books In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her... -
Doll by Maria Teresa Hart
RRP: €11.89€8.87Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our... -
Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII by Jacques Lacan 9781509523603
RRP: €21.41€20.47"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades's desire - ágalma, the good object.I would go even further... -
Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors' Club of London, 1891-2016 by C. J. Schuler
RRP: €23.79€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527201682Author C. J. SchulerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Authors' ClubPublisher The Authors' ClubWeight(grams) 398g -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: €33.31€28.63During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of... -
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise by Shoshana Felman
RRP: €41.65€36.95"It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene by John Parham
RRP: €28.55€24.24The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how...