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The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism by Eugene Goodheart 9780691611907
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.76Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. ... -
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition Bernard Faure 9780691029023
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern... -
Others by Joseph Hillis Miller
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich... -
Experimental Nations: Or, the Invention of the Maghreb by Reda Bensmaia 9780691089379
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or... -
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language by Srinivas Aravamudan 9780691118284
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original... -
Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature by Nicholas Brown 9780691122120
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework,... -
The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental by Marina Scordilis Brownlee 9780691605685
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse... -
From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis Cornford 9780691020761
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced... -
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present by David Damrosch 9780691132853
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The... -
The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment by Pierre Saint-Amand 9780691149271
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the... -
Cervantes and the Humanist Vision: A Study of Four Exemplary Novels by Alban K. Forcione 9780691613802
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55This book sets the Novelas ejemplares in the mainstream of Christian Humanism and shows that their narrative forms manifest the breadth of the Christian Humanist vision as much as does the more... -
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* by Patricia Gherovici
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Transcending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment,... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
Augustine's Confessions: A Biography by Garry Wills
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what... -
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand by Alan Klima 9780691074603
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly... -
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann 9780691116099
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.32In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring... -
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University Perry Zurn 9781478031307
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions-and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives... -
Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction by Gertrud Koch
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences by Wilhelm Dilthey
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three "Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences," in which Dilthey... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6: Fear and Trembling/Repetition by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691020266
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.78Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings... -
Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys by Sk Sagir Ali 9781032272146
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Literature and Theory is designed to assist students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. Focusing on representative works and authors widely taught across classrooms in the world -... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch 9780691134994
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology by Alan M. Olson 9780691146690
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.45Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit,... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
The Event of Style in Literature by Mario Aquilina 9781137426918
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style... -
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.76This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest... -
Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism,... -
My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity Eric L. Santner 9780691026275
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend... -
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age by Tarek El-Ariss
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation by Susan Rubin Suleiman 9780691615844
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.45A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the... -
The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Teran by Ana Enriqueta Teran 9780691096728
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Ana Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been... -
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern 9780691127682
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.60This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing... -
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age by Tarek El-Ariss 9780691181929
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £74.71How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and... -
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University Perry Zurn 9781478028062
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions-and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives... -
The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental by Marina Scordilis Brownlee 9780691634616
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse...