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How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.24James 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... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $24.17Who 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: $148.35Booksplease Price: $142.40Who 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... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20In 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... -
Critical Theory and The English Teacher: Transforming the Subject Nick Peim 9780415057523
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36In 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... -
Outside Literature by Tony Bennett 9780415010948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $6.68Literature 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... -
Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton And Beyond: Contested Perspectives: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 61 John E. O'Brien 9781608464210
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $35.60Using 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: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36This 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... -
Class Gary Day 9780415182232
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04This 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
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68Literature 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... -
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts David Goldblatt 9781138235885
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $143.45Aesthetics: 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... -
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights by Professor Miriam Allott 9780333533680
Booksplease Price: $44.47The volume's wide selection of reviews and criticism illustrates the powerful impression made by this novel from its first appearance in 1847, when even hostile readers expressed reluctant... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89You 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... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan 9781783607358
Booksplease Price: $117.22'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".'Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 2: Island Stories - Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: $36.24A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in... -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.27'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of... -
Textual Practice: Volume 8, Issue 1 by Jean Howard
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Since its launch in 1987 Textual Practice has established itself as a leading journal of radical literary theory. New approaches to literary texts are naturally a major feature, but in exploring... -
Stuart Hall by James Procter 9780415262675
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.12James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.Stuart... -
Stuart Hall by James Procter
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $142.40James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.Stuart... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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... -
D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present by Amit Chaudhuri 9780199260522
Booksplease Price: $118.53This important study from the prizewinning novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri explores D. H. Lawrence's position as a 'foreigner' in the English canon. Focusing on the poetry, Chaudhuri examines how... -
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola by Rachel Bowlby
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values... -
Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity David Bennett 9780415121590
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09The idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by... -
Dishing it Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience by Robert Appelbaum 9781861898074
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $45.45In this ground-breaking work, Robert Appelbaum travels through time, space and the annals of literature and history, asking some basic questions. What is a restaurant, for example, and what and who... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The 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 ... -
T. S. Eliot by Harriet Davidson 9780582061538
Booksplease Price: $50.12One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume,... -
A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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... -
The Literary Wittgenstein by John Gibson
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature. Amid growing... -
The Eagleton Reader Stephen Regan (University of Durham) 9780631202493
RRP: $55.41Booksplease Price: $52.64This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.About the AuthorStephen Regan is a... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66This 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... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
Booksplease Price: $57.71This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight... -
How To Read Foucault by Johanna Oksala 9781862077676
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about... -
Saint Billie by Jeremy Reed 9781900564625
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.18"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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Fifty 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... -
Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 1 by Lindsay Smith
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Since its launch in 1987 TP has been Britain's principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagements. Today, as customary relations among... -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.34Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how,... -
Slavoj Zizek by Tony Myers 9780415262651
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.21Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of... -
Relativism Paul O'Grady 9781902683379
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20The issue of relativism looms large in many contemporary discussions of knowledge, reality, society, religion, culture and gender. Is truth relative? To what extent is knowledge dependent on context?... -
Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 2 by Lindsay Smith
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Since its launch in 1987 TP has been Britain's principla international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagements. Today, as customary relations among...