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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... -
The Forms of the Affects by Eugenie Brinkema
RRP: £23.99£20.84What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light?Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis... -
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gerard Genette
RRP: £29.99£24.90Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's... -
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII Jacques Lacan 9781509510009
RRP: £55.00£47.73"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd... -
Antigones by George Steiner
£34.99The 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 *... -
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh 9780340761915 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.99£2.29This book covers the key theoretical approches in modern literary theory, and includes essays and texts that are essential reading for any student of critical theory. It includes sections on Formalism and Structuralism, Feminism, Marxism, Postmodernism,... -
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh
£43.44This book covers the key theoretical approches in modern literary theory, and includes essays and texts that are essential reading for any student of critical theory. It includes sections on Formalism and Structuralism, Feminism, Marxism, Postmodernism,... -
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
£51.96Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin by David S. Ferris 9780521797245
RRP: £28.99£24.42This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a... -
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements by Alex Goody 9781349959631
RRP: £54.99£54.80Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city... -
Victorian Christmas in Print by Tara Moore 9780230616547
RRP: £44.99£44.97Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with... -
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
RRP: £37.49£37.40Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of... -
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 by Seamus Deane
RRP: £20.00£17.36Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the... -
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... -
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
RRP: £23.95£19.54A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics,... -
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
RRP: £17.50£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171632Author Peter MendelsundFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
The Mammoth Book of Lost Symbols: A Dictionary of the Hidden Language of Symbolism by Nadia Julien
RRP: £10.99£7.40Humanity 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: £26.99£22.80This 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 Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco
RRP: £18.99£16.72"...not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics "...essential reading for anyone interesting in...the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library Journal In this... -
Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide by Stephen Benson
RRP: £28.99£23.38This is the first anthology and guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. 'We murder to dissect' writes Wordsworth. It's a sentiment shared by many lovers of literature and art, as well as by artists and writers themselves. Too often... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
£21.73Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low" from market ideology to architecture, from... -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett 9781032285849
RRP: £18.99£16.87What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: £23.99£20.84"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... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: £19.99£17.54Stone 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... -
Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty 9781478009580
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 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... -
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher 9780692066058
RRP: £12.00£8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692066058Author Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint ExmilitaryPublisher ExmilitaryWeight(grams) 249g -
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions by Stephen Frosh 9781137031273
RRP: £23.00£20.12This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object 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: £22.99£20.41Long 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... -
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £19.99£17.69Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis... -
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity Carl Phelpstead 9780708323915
RRP: £19.99£15.23Tolkien 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... -
Dialogues with / and Great Books: The Dynamics of Canon Formation by David Fishelov 9781845195182
RRP: £27.50£24.55What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its... -
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco
RRP: £27.99£24.14" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism" . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide... -
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris 9780415280105
RRP: £29.99£26.64Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The... -
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £24.99£22.07During 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... -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486434414
RRP: £7.49£5.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434414Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop
RRP: £19.99£17.13In 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,... -
On Writing by A. L. Kennedy 9780099575238 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.99After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books - it's just a wonder she's found the time. These are missives... -
On Writing by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £16.99£16.53After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books - it's just a wonder she's found the time. These are missives... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: £14.99£9.80In 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...