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The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $41.98$31.33This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of... -
Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: $41.98$38.89Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do' English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.In his lucid and engaging style, Robert... -
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $27.28$12.50A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as... -
A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon
RRP: $100.78$91.94A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film... -
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart
RRP: $48.28$41.16Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated... -
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia by Avgi Saketopoulou
RRP: $54.58$46.28Radical alternatives to consent and trauma Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.32'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
RRP: $6.30$5.23'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch
$107.42The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in... -
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh 9781804291344
RRP: $37.78$33.73Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $60.80$47.96In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the... -
How Fiction Works by James Wood
RRP: $23.08$16.32Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: $23.08$16.32The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon
RRP: $39.88$29.42'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary SupplementThe Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied field of literary criticism. Now in its fifth edition,... -
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $54.58$48.64A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. What does it mean to be out walking in the world,... -
Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Nico Israel 9780231153034
RRP: $46.20$35.68In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $27.28$17.81Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: $35.68$32.34"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued... -
Literature: Why It Matters by Robert Eaglestone 9781509532322
RRP: $20.98$19.66'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But,... -
Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $52.48$46.89The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
RRP: $23.08$16.32What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of... -
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory: Fourth Edition by Peter Barry
RRP: $25.18$18.00Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: $20.98$14.93One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $27.28$19.09Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly... -
Love in the Western World by Denis De Rougemont
RRP: $73.50$57.14In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is... -
Grave by Allison C. Meier
RRP: $20.98$15.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide,... -
On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke
$58.15Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a... -
Key Writings by Henri Bergson
RRP: $52.48$50.95The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An... -
Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Gifford
RRP: $65.10$51.56Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses". The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail... -
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: $18.88$13.55Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and... -
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Professor John Guillory
$50.65A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has... -
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
RRP: $46.18$40.76To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric... -
Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $46.20$35.68Since Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont 9781788738910
RRP: $39.88$33.71There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles,... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: $44.10$39.06Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: $42.00$32.63Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
Sigmund Freud by Pamela Thurschwell
RRP: $41.98$38.89The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: $27.28$19.09A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene...