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Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 by Morag Shiach 9780521834599
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. There is a strong critical tradition in literary and historical studies that sees the impact of... -
Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies and Translation Studies in Dialogue by Claudia Jünke 9780367711788
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics,... -
Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato by Paul Allen Miller 9780199640201
Booksplease Price: £117.40Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the... -
Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato by Paul Allen Miller 9780199640218
Booksplease Price: £26.49Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the... -
The Ethics of Vulnerability: A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice by Erinn Gilson 9781138208964
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As... -
Derrida and the Time of the Political by Suzanne Guerlac 9780822343721
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher's... -
Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction by Susan Sellers 9780333720158
Booksplease Price: £40.79Woman as gorgon, woman as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has dominated Western thinking defines women in a variety of patriarchally encoded roles. This study addresses the... -
In Praise of Risk by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.23When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she was the author of a book entitled In... -
Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion by Linda Martin Alcoff 9780253223043
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking... -
In Praise of Risk by Anne Dufourmantelle 9780823285457
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £84.45When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she was the author of a book entitled In... -
Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing by Fiona Cox 9780199582969
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.32The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all... -
Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of French Feminism by Rakhee Balaram
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des... -
Reading Fragments and Fragmentation in Modernist Literature by Rebecca Varley-Winter 9781845198954
Booksplease Price: £109.14This book begins with the question: How are literary fragments defined as such? As a critical term, fragment is more of a starting-point than a definition: Is part of the manuscript missing? Is it... -
Reading Fragments and Fragmentation in Modernist Literature by Rebecca Varley-Winter 9781845199609
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93This book begins with the question: How are literary fragments defined as such? As a critical term, fragment is more of a starting-point than a definition: Is part of the manuscript missing? Is it... -
Apple Thieves Beverley Bie Brahic 9781800174290
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms,' Beverley Bie Brahic says. Apple Thieves is full of such painterly moments, remembered or caught on... -
Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory by Verena Andermatt Conley 9781846317545
Booksplease Price: £119.73Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard,... -
Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric by Michael Bernard-Donals 9780271089560
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.49With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,... -
Worldwide Women Writers in Paris: Francophone Metronomes by Alison Rice 9780192845771
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.52Worldwide Women Writers in Paris examines a new literary phenomenon consisting of an unprecedented number of women from around the world who have come to Paris and become authors of written works in... -
Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture by Jay Clayton 9780195313260
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £30.54Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates... -
Trading Secrets by Paule Constant 9780803264045
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.63Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through... -
Defining Travel: Diverse Visions by Susan L. Roberson 9781934110539
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47With essays by Gloria Anzaldua, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, Helene Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren... -
Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory Verena Andermatt Conley (Department Of Romance Languages And Literatures, Harvard University (United States)) 9781781380055
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.05Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard,... -
Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric by Michael Bernard-Donals 9780271089577
RRP: £85.99Booksplease Price: £81.63With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,... -
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook by Mark A. Wollaeger 9780195150766
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.00James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers,... -
Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900–1940 by Gaurav Majumdar 9781032115481
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance: The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri by Ken McMullen 9781783482696
Booksplease Price: £35.01Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Transforming Education: Design & Governance in Global Contexts by Leon Benade 9789811056772
Booksplease Price: £111.62This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas. Its authors are researchers and theoretical scholars in the fields of education curriculum, education technology, education... -
Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances by Susan Rubin Suleiman
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and cultural identity and problems of nationalism, racism, and war. Whether emigres,... -
Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology by Stephen D. Moore 9780823263202
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.32A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development... -
White Spirit by Betsy Wing
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches-no diploma required-Victor finds... -
The Feminine Subject by Susan J. Hekman 9780745687834
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of... -
Transforming Education: Design & Governance in Global Contexts by Leon Benade 9789811354601
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.79This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas. Its authors are researchers and theoretical scholars in the fields of education curriculum, education technology, education... -
Oxi: An Act of Resistance: The Screenplay and Commentary, Including interviews with Derrida, Cixous, Balibar and Negri by Ken McMullen 9781783482689
Booksplease Price: £81.77Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced 'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the... -
Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur 9781068300127
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"Marcel Proust passed away on the 18th of November. It was 1922. One day, I could no longer resist: I went in search of him. I prowled about, I visited the rooms where he had lived, I walked in... -
Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism Ashmita Khasnabish 9781032135175
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective, by inscribing and defining the meaning of "virtual diaspora" through the lens... -
The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays by 9780231119924
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."--Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University "In this... -
The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays by 9780231119931
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."--Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University "In this... -
Western Christine Montalbetti 9781564785282
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A pioneering French woman turns her eye toward the most classically male American genre.A pioneering French woman turns her eye toward the most classically male American genre.About the AuthorA... -
Available Means: An Anthology Of Women's Rhetoric(s) by Joy S. Ritchie 9780822957539
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.43"I say that even later someone will remember us."-Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate... -
This Incredible Need to Believe Julia Kristeva 9780231219044
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics,...