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Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism by Elizabeth A. Meese 9780807841495
Booksplease Price: £37.16Exploring the controversial question of feminist criticism's relationship to recent critical theory, Elizabeth Meese resists the impulse to encompass women's diverse experiences within a single... -
Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 2 by Lindsay Smith
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Since 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... -
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide by Julian Wolfreys 9780814793602
Booksplease Price: £91.37Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy by Jennifer Wallace 9780521671491
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays,... -
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming... -
Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism by Kate Saper 9780860915362
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.84What happens when 'life's simple joys' become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices... -
The Universal Exception by Slavoj Zizek 9780826495303
Booksplease Price: £103.11The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj ek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Bringing together a broad selection of... -
Deconstruction After All: Reflections & Conversations by Christopher Norris by Christopher Norris
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.26This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris's vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Thomas... -
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide by Julian Wolfreys
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the... -
The Resources of Critique Alex Callinicos (Kings College London) 9780745631615
Booksplease Price: £21.84Social criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of... -
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.98High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music... -
Crrritic!: Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation & Various Other Noises Off in These the First & Last Days of Literary Criticism by John Schad 9781845193829
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.51Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings together a range of writings that seek to radically... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.46A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9780141439723
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.03'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws... -
The Resources of Critique by Alex Callinicos 9780745631608
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Social criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of... -
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History by M. A. R. Habib 9781405176675
RRP: £86.95Booksplease Price: £79.62Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most... -
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Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum by Susan Dick 9780773507074 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £3.39Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ...differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic... -
Hell's Foundations: A Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780571243532
Booksplease Price: £18.07There is no shortage of books on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915 but this one stands out. In it Geoffrey Moorhouse moves the focus from the more familar aspects to concentrate on one small... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and... -
How To Read Marx by Peter Osborne 9781862077713
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Emphasizing the Romantic heritage and modernist legacy of Karl Marx's writings, Peter Osborne presents Marx's thought as a developing investigation into what it means, concretely, for humans to be... -
On Belief by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all... -
How To Read Sartre Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free... -
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History M. A. R. Habib (Kingston University, UK) 9781405176668
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most... -
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice Scott Wilson (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631185338
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81In recent years the left has transformed traditional approaches to literature and culture. Critical movements such as Cultural Materialism and New Historicism have succeeded to the point where they... -
How To Read Heidegger by Mark A. Wrathall 9781862077669
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark A. Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose and guides the reader through Heidegger's... -
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx by Eagleton Derrida
Booksplease Price: £21.58With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided... -
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances... -
How To Read Beauvoir by Stella Sandford 9781862078741
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' Simone de Beauvoir To what extent does our social existence determine who we are? What is the meaning of sexuality for human existence? What is the... -
The Antinomies of Realism by Fredric Jameson 9781781688175
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.53The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it... -
Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One by Fredric Jameson 9781781681572
Booksplease Price: £17.74Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical ... -
Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge by Peter Gratton 9780810123786
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In recent years, Richard Kearney has emerged as a leading figure in the field of continental philosophy, widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics,... -
The Great Philosophers Frederic Raphael 9780753811368
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 Jon Cook (University of East Anglia) 9780631225546
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £37.06Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. Helps readers to think... -
Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed... -
Ireland Under Austerity: Neoliberal Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions by Colin Coulter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path... -
Ideologies of Theory by Fredric Jameson 9781844672776
Booksplease Price: £45.28Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's long career as a critic. They chart a body of work... -
Derrida and Disinterest by Sean Gaston 9780826491633
Booksplease Price: £66.58Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche,... -
The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years by Uwe Boker 9789042014008
Booksplease Price: £79.46The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical... -
Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free-Market Right Hilary Wainwright (University of Manchester) 9780631191919
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £52.41As disillusion sets in with the free market right- the legacy of Thatcher, Reagan and Geoffrey Sachs-Hiliary Wainwright retrieves and develops what was best in the thinking and practice of the new... -
Back to the Future of Irish Studies: Festschrift for Tadhg Foley by Maureen O'Connor 9783034301411
RRP: £48.20Booksplease Price: £43.51This Festschrift for Professor Tadhg Foley of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who retired in 2009, gathers together international contributors in the fields of poetry, politics and...