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New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race by Harriet Pollack 9781496826152
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Christin... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'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... -
Textual Practice: Volume 6, Issue 2 by Terence Hawkes 9780415081122
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.Reviews`Textual Practice contains some of the most path-breaking, adventurous critical writing... -
Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Zizek: A Conspiracy of Hope by Ola Sigurdson 9781349342747
Booksplease Price: £92.21Taking its cue from the renewed interest in theology among Marxist and politically radical philosophers or thinkers, this study inquires into the reasons for this interest in theology focusing on the... -
Villette by Pauline Nestor 9780333551387
Booksplease Price: £35.83The Villette New Casebook collects a selection of the most important contributions to the study of Villette in the last twenty years from critics such as Kate Millett, Terry Eagleton, Mary Jacobus,... -
God Still Matters by Herbert McCabe 9780826476692
Booksplease Price: £17.93Herbert McCabe, who died in 2001, was one of the most intelligent Roman Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. An influence on philosophers such as Anthony Kenny and Alasdair MacIntyre he was... -
Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America Volker M. Welter 9781606066140
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.10From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned... -
King Lear by Kiernan Ryan 9780333555309
Booksplease Price: £33.84Looks at the diversity of the latest feminist, post-structuralist and new historicist accounts of "King Lear". The contributors include Stephen Greenblatt, Terry Eagleton, Annabel Patterson and... -
Literary Analysis: The Basics by Celena Kusch 9780415747097
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary... -
Sons and Lovers by Rick Rylance 9780333549063
Booksplease Price: £34.84A new collection of modern essays on Lawrence's first major novel representative of both new and classic critical approaches. The essays - by leading critics such as Terry Eagleton, Kate Millett,... -
Criticism Of Heaven: On Marxism And Theology: Historical Materialism, Volume 18 by Roland Boer 9781608460311
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.39This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst... -
In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey 9781859849491
Booksplease Price: £36.45Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings... -
Restless Cities by Matthew Beaumont
Booksplease Price: £23.82The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities... -
Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture by Malcolm Barnard 9780333772881
Booksplease Price: £41.78This text provides an accessible critical introduction to a variety of different analytic strategies for understanding the range of objects (paintings, sculpture, adverts, furniture, textiles,... -
Literary Analysis: The Basics Celena Kusch 9780415747103
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.99Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary... -
Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism by Francis Mulhern 9780582059764
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.61Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent... -
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture by Louis K. Dupre 9780300113464
Booksplease Price: £39.95"Louis Dupre's study of the Enlightenment, ranging as it does over art, morality, religion, science, philosophy, social theory, and a good deal besides, is a marvel of scholarly erudition. . . . A... -
God Matters by Herbert McCabe
Booksplease Price: £15.55Seldom have God matters been treated with such verve, sense, rigour and humour as in the collection of writings by Herbert McCabe. This book demonstrates the depth and clarity of his theology and... -
Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies by Tim Dolin 9780333994450
Booksplease Price: £46.74For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's... -
Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism by Alex Callinicos
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.03In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since... -
Farewell to Postmodernism: Social Theories of the Late Left by Bartosz Kuzniarz 9783631626771
RRP: £65.90Booksplease Price: £58.75In the late 1960s, a whole pantheon of thinkers regarding themselves as radicals stole a part of the anarchic praxis of late capitalism, turned it into philosophy, and with the resulting set of views... -
On the Theory and History of Ideological Production: Juan Carlos Rodrguez and His Contemporaries by Malcolm K. Read 9798888903209
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.57On the Theory and History of Ideological Production promotes the existence of an 'ideological unconscious', understood primarily as a product of social relations, not of the Ideological State... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16James 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In 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... -
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien by Michael Tomko 9781780937304
Booksplease Price: £103.11Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey 9781138129993
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived... -
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief by Michael Tomko 9781350036024
Booksplease Price: £40.79Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare... -
Critical Theory and The English Teacher: Transforming the Subject Nick Peim 9780415057523
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80In this radical exploration, Nick Peim, himself a practising English teacher, shows how teachers can use critical theory to bring students' own experience back into the subject. The author explains... -
The God Debaters: New Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium by Adrian Rosenfeldt 9783030967437
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West. Through a close study of prominent English God debaters Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens, and Terry Eagleton, Adrian... -
Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity by Martin McQuillan 9781780930343
Booksplease Price: £28.88What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes... -
Class Gary Day 9780415182232
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09This book traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, uniquely examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis. Drawing on historical, sociological and... -
Outside Literature by Tony Bennett 9780415010948 [USED COPY]
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £5.18Literature 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... -
Outside Literature by Tony Bennett
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Literature 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... -
The God Debaters: New Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium by Adrian Rosenfeldt 9783030967406
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West. Through a close study of prominent English God debaters Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens, and Terry Eagleton, Adrian... -
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: £28.60Using 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... -
Class by Gary Day 9780415182225
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08This book traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, uniquely examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis. Drawing on historical, sociological and... -
Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-class Culture in America by Michael Denning
Booksplease Price: £22.15Mechanic Accents is a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American labor history, Michael Denning explores what... -
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts David Goldblatt 9781138235885
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical... -
Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity by Martin McQuillan 9781780930350
Booksplease Price: £86.43What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes...