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Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers by Mirna Vohnsen 9783031323454
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers' contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by bringing together the work of highly acclaimed and... -
Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced: How the 21st Century Anglophone Novels Remember and Forget by Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng 9789811992506
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $214.03This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also... -
The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture by Graham MacPhee 9780826459268
Booksplease Price: $119.03Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual--now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy--have interpreted this new... -
Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne by Anthony Mellors 9780719058868
Booksplease Price: $45.90This book explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the familiar notion that modernism dissolved during the 1930s, it argues that the... -
The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther by Dr Jo Carruthers 9780567702319
Booksplease Price: $67.22This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers... -
The Theatre of Death - The Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor by Mischa Twitchin 9781137478719
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might "the theatre of death" and "the uncanny in mimesis" allow us to... -
Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction by Lynn Wells 9789042011144
Booksplease Price: $108.30Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers’s notion that “one of the important powers of fiction is its power to... -
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film by Idit Alphandary 9783112215357
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.97The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the... -
Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics by Seanna Sumalee Oakley 9789042034082
Booksplease Price: $212.28While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of... -
The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography by Dudley Andrew
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret images. Indeed, the mechanical reproduction of images was a central preoccupation of twentieth-century... -
Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics by Jennifer Gabrys 9780472035373
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics is a study of the material life of information and its devices and of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations. It is also a... -
The Archaeologies of Modernity: The Avant-Garde Bildung by Rainer Rumold 9780810131125
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Archaeologies of Modernity explores the shift from the powerful tradition of literary forms of Bildung-the education of the individual as the self-to the visual forms of "Bildung" (from Bild) that... -
Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made by Jacques L. Picard 9780691164236
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $67.12This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways,... -
Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt 9780520270503
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a... -
Lament in Jewish Thought: Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives by Ilit Ferber 9783110553963
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $25.94Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the... -
Saramago's Philosophical Heritage by Carlo Salzani 9783319919225
Booksplease Price: $176.59The past decades have seen a growing "philosophical" interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by... -
Eyes in Times of War by Ali Alizadeh 9781844712878
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45This collection of poems speaks to an individual's place and emotions during war. The wars depicted in this volume - the `history wars', the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, `the war against terror', `the... -
Precarious Flanerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries 9783110767476
RRP: $223.28Booksplease Price: $151.36Even though the literary trope of the flaneur has been proclaimed 'dead' on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how... -
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film by Idit Alphandary 9783111242330
Booksplease Price: $188.78The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the... -
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida by Matthias Fritsch 9780791465493
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $116.18Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory... -
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida by Matthias Fritsch 9780791465509
Booksplease Price: $50.84Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory... -
Kafka`s The Castle and the Critical Imagination by Stephen D. Dowden
Booksplease Price: $144.24Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel. Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of... -
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts by Victoria Kahn 9780226083872
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this... -
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The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310761 [USED COPY]
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $18.33In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial by Rex Ferguson 9781107012974
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90The realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century. Each places a premium on the author's or trial lawyer's ability to reconstruct reality, reflecting... -
Philosophy of the Novel by Barry Stocker 9783319658902
Booksplease Price: $199.45This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary... -
Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature by Sabina Sestigiani 9781433123986
RRP: $141.08Booksplease Price: $125.40Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has... -
The Aesthetic Politics of Far-right Environmentalism Imogen Richards 9783031981791
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $63.34This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the complex relationships between aesthetics, politics, and environmental concerns within far-right movements. Drawing on critical theory and insights... -
Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance by Freddie Rokem
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking... -
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Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance by Freddie Rokem 9780804763493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $2.07The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking... -
The Conspiracy by Paul Nizan
Booksplease Price: $42.49The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publication fighting the Germans at the Battle of Dunkirk. Hailed by... -
In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought by Jessica Dubow 9781350154254
Booksplease Price: $218.65In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography... -
Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Culture, Media and Theory by David Berry 9781138111066
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68What has become known as the Frankfurt School is often reduced to a small number of theorists in media communication and cultural studies. Challenging this limitation, Revisiting The Frankfurt School... -
Four Jews on Parnassus-a Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schoenberg by Carl Djerassi 9780231146548
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.71This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." Theodor W. Adorno was the... -
The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory by Laurent Olivier 9780759120457
Booksplease Price: $186.21The field of archaeology continues to face a major crisis of interpretation. The traditional view is that the basic business of archaeology is to reconstruct the history of cultures and civilizations... -
Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics by Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté 9781350203006
Booksplease Price: $61.46Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness... -
Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past: Essays on Marxism and History by Neil Davidson 9781608463336
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.79Neil Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism and Marxism as he explains concepts such as the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another... -
Priming Translation: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors by Douglas Robinson 9780367681159
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $240.34This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga's Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.Gazzaniga's... -
Agamben by Claire Colebrook 9780745653105
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65Until recently, "continental" philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Giorgio... -
Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos Agata Bielik-Robson 9781138299658
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This book aims to interpret 'Jewish Philosophy' in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a 'secret message' which cannot find an open...