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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
$70.18Twentieth 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 Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $23.21$21.67"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... -
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective by Anne Whitehead
RRP: $19.34$17.35Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and... -
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam
RRP: $29.66$23.74In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
RRP: $28.37$24.19The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black by R. A. Judy
RRP: $39.99$35.91In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham's 1937 remark "we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in... -
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye 9780691202563
RRP: $24.50$19.08A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye... -
A Theory of Musical Semiotics by Eero Tarasti
RRP: $46.44$40.49"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " -Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of... -
Writing in Society by Raymond Williams 9780860917724
RRP: $24.50$20.77Raymond Williams's work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines... -
Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: $29.66$25.28Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular commentators, academic critics, and short story writers... -
The Sublime by Philip Shaw 9781138859647
RRP: $33.53$30.57Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly... -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
RRP: $34.82$30.24The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... -
Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Rachele Dini 9781912284757
RRP: $8.39$8.23The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider... -
And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $21.92$13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351702Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction by Peter Stockwell
RRP: $49.01$45.07A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples... -
The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao
RRP: $39.98$29.48This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and... -
Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: $14.18$10.02The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato... -
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin 9780674283992
RRP: $28.32$22.77No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you... -
The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet by Marcel Danesi
RRP: $25.79$22.72Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $20.63$18.47Now 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... -
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed... -
Mushroom by Dr. Sara Rich
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating... -
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
$16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027762Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $16.76$11.73Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural... -
Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion by Richard J Hand
RRP: $27.08$23.97This 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... -
Rhetoric by Dr. Jennifer Richards
RRP: $25.79$23.89Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture... -
The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes by Peter Adkins 9781474481977
RRP: $25.79$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481977Author Peter AdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy: To Francis Skinner - The Wittgenstein-Skinner Papers by Arthur Gibson 9783030360863
RRP: $51.59$46.69In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanations of the origin and background of these previously unknown manuscripts. It investigates how... -
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: $90.30$82.22Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: $51.59$47.36This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
Wine by Meg Bernhard
RRP: $12.89$9.61Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often... -
Sticker by Henry Hoke
RRP: $12.89$9.61"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth... -
Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $38.69$33.50The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson
RRP: $36.11$31.04This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred by Professor Todd McGowan
RRP: $23.21$20.56What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this... -
Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: $19.34$14.34Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: $25.80$20.05Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four... -
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life by Mari Ruti
RRP: $25.80$20.05Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's... -
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco
RRP: $27.08$23.19"...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...