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Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form by Elizabeth Jane MacArthur 9780691605029
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize... -
Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 by Mark Salber Phillips
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to... -
Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love by William A. Ulmer 9780691600376
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of... -
Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden V. White 9780801827419
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are... -
Is History Fiction? by Ann Curthoys 9781742231716
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides,... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.75History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you... -
Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony by Nicholas Chare 9781349452170
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins 9781138127722
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you... -
Representing Auschwitz: At the Margins of Testimony by Nicholas Chare 9781137297686
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
Translating His-stories by Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte 9781009673174
Booksplease Price: £56.13Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories... -
Criticism and Social Change by Frank Lentricchia 9780226472003
Booksplease Price: £24.80"Criticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection... -
Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective by Joyce Appleby
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.88This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques... -
Stage Histories: Post-War British Historical Drama by Pawel Schreiber 9783631663257
RRP: £50.40Booksplease Price: £45.41The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with... -
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"We Search the Past ... for Our Own Lost Selves.": Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction by Marta Koval 9783631626108
RRP: £40.90Booksplease Price: £34.72The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and... -
Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton And Beyond: Contested Perspectives: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 61 John E. O'Brien 9781608464210
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural... -
The New Historicism by Harold Veeser
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or... -
History in the Discursive Condition: Reconsidering the Tools of Thought Elizabeth Ermarth 9780415782197
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally. She puts forward a... -
Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation by Vincent Crapanzano 9780674389816
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.46A distinguished anthropologist and a creative force behind postmodern writing in his field, Vincent Crapanzano here focuses his considerable critical powers upon his own culture. In essays that... -
Music and Text: Critical Inquiries by Steven Paul Scher 9780521401586
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted... -
Music and Text: Critical Inquiries by Steven Paul Scher 9780521031028
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Melopoetics, the study of the multifarious relations between music and literature, has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In this volume, noted... -
History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck by Niklas Olsen 9781782383819
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Reinhart Koselleck (1923 - 2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream... -
Echoes of the Rebellion: The Year 1798 in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Drama by Radvan Markus 9783034318327
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.46The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. The... -
The Poetics of International Politics: Fact and Fiction in Narrative Representations of World Affairs by Milan Babik 9781032094397
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics. It has... -
Manifestos for History by Sue Morgan 9780415377775
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Written by some of the world's leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought... -
The Reception of Northrop Frye by Robert Denham 9781487508203
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £81.34The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye's influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion... -
History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor by F. R. Ankersmit 9780520356467
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy" is "to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed R. G. Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates... -
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art by Julia Kristeva 9780231214551
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva's essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts... -
In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters by Richard A. Etlin 9780521476720
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61This book offers a response to the critique of traditional humanism, and particularly its cultural dimension, that has been at the heart of intellectual discourse of the past decade. In simple, clear... -
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Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History by Herb Wyile 9780773523159 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £15.31Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear... -
The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature by Robert Doran 9781474225939
Booksplease Price: £29.88In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp... -
History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor by F. R. Ankersmit 9780520304741
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy" is "to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed R. G. Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates... -
Historical Representation by F. R. Ankersmit
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of... -
Historical Representation by F. R. Ankersmit 9780804739795
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of... -
Deconstruction After All: Reflections & Conversations by Christopher Norris by Christopher Norris
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £39.89This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas... -
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom... -
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past by Kalle Pihlainen
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Since the appearance of Hayden White's seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians... -
Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext by Garrett Stewart 9780520070394
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.28"At last, a scrupulous and sustained--'earsighted'--study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise...Stewart immerses us... -
Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989 by Matt Cornish
Booksplease Price: £71.25Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while... -
The Growth of Minds and Culture: A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience by Willem H. Vanderburg 9781487520342
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment. Such questions cannot be answered by...