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The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $25.71$23.29"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: $81.48$71.37A 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: $47.94$38.73How 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... -
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $58.23$46.81Are 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: $46.30$39.19"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: $17.14$12.78Object 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... -
Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: $44.58$38.82What 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... -
Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors' Club of London, 1891-2016 by C. J. Schuler
RRP: $34.29$22.06Apologies 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: $48.01$41.27During 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: $60.04$53.26"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: $41.15$40.82The 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... -
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault
RRP: $48.01$40.58Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: $51.46$39.14Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of... -
Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
RRP: $30.79$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725395Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley 9780415285414
RRP: $34.29$30.34Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most... -
On the Names-of-the-Father by Jacques Lacan 9780745659923
RRP: $25.71$23.29What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said,... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: $42.87$32.14Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in... -
Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: $44.58$38.82Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: $17.14$12.78Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
RRP: $51.37$41.39The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and... -
Trench Coat by Professor Jane Tynan
RRP: $17.14$12.78Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we know the trench coat, but where does it come from and where will it take us? From its origins in the trenches of WW1, this military... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
RRP: $34.29$30.34This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism... -
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh
$73.17This 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,... -
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo by Padraig Belton 9781912284634
RRP: $11.15$10.48Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai 9780674278745
RRP: $34.22$27.05Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag's best work."-Los Angeles Review of... -
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: $37.74$29.14Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
Character as Form by Aaron Kunin
$50.76What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of a character was to collect every example of a kind, in... -
Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $41.17$39.50"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,... -
The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
RRP: $49.74$43.88The surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.In The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews makes a provocative case for the radical poetic possibilities of the work of literary scholarship and lays out... -
Magazine by Prof Jeff Jarvis 9781501394959
RRP: $17.14$12.78Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the... -
Sexistence by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823293995
RRP: $46.30$38.89Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts by Mark Hewson 9781138908567
RRP: $44.58$38.82Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key... -
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment by Graham Huggan 9781138784192
RRP: $65.16$57.26This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse... -
Luminous Presence: Derek Jarman's Life-Writing by Alexandra Parsons 9781526171573
RRP: $42.88$37.02Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a... -
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses by Niklaus Largier
RRP: $44.58$37.81From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment by Timothy Clark
RRP: $39.43$35.92The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a... -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: $17.14$12.78Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $15.42$11.06The 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... -
Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris
RRP: $65.18$56.00This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription-the leaving of a trace to be called up later-is what is most fundamental to them. In... -
Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII by Jacques Lacan 9781509523603
RRP: $30.86$28.20"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...