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Culture by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture... -
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a... -
The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book,... -
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of... -
On Evil Terry Eagleton 9780300171259
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton... -
The Great Philosophers:Marx by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire... -
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.95"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor... -
Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton 9781804294680
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780300248678
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has... -
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton 9780300212334
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism?... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780300247640
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.39A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it?... -
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and... -
The Idea of Culture Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631219668
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $32.64Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around... -
Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism Terry Eagleton 9781804296165
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a... -
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.41One of our most influential literary critics challenges those who too easily dismiss religion and faith Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir... -
Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by Terry Eagleton 9780393349405
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.92Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would... -
How to Read a Poem Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester, UK) 9781405151412
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $23.29Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated... -
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Christopher Insole 9781836432159
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do... -
Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction by Sara Upstone
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but... -
Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Timothy Ware
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Orthodoxy claims to be universal . . .'Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to... -
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents Professor Tony Judt 9780718191412
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.33'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a... -
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister 9781405951920
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The definitive account of the rise and fall of the iconic Concorde plane from British Airways' former Chief Concorde Pilot'A remarkable story' DAILY EXPRESS'A stonking good read' FLYER_________What's... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.38A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.59James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
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Outside Literature by Tony Bennett 9780415010948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $62.97Booksplease Price: $6.94Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes. Tony Bennett suggests that literature be re-defined as an institutionally defined... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.77You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this ... -
A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright'The real stuff.' James Kelman'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie ProulxJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative... -
Saint Billie by Jeremy Reed 9781900564625
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $9.54"Saint Billie".About the AuthorJeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael...