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Macbeth by Alan Sinfield 9780333544433
Booksplease Price: €39.85A new collection of recent essays by the most important scholars, critics and theorists of today, with a lively and accessible introduction by Alan Sinfield. In diverse ways, Macbeth is approached as... -
Dramatic Monologue by Alan Sinfield
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €127.37First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue. Although it is often associated with Browning and other poets writing between 1830 and 1930, the concept... -
Textual Practice 10.3 by Alan Sinfield
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Volume 10, Issue 3- Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism "Thomas Doucherty"--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and... -
Society and Literature 1945-1970 by Alan Sinfield
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explores the social basis of our conceptions of literature... -
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics - Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within... -
Cultural Politics - Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield 9780812215427
Booksplease Price: €29.85Was Shakespeare gay? Is The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? How does mainstream reading differ from that of subcultural groups? In this lively and readable book, Alan Sinfield challenges the... -
Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 by Alan Sinfield
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983,... -
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain by Alan Sinfield 9780826494757
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €26.17"Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain" is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945,... -
Textual Practice V10 Issue 2 by Alan Sinfield 9780415145657
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorAlan SinfieldBook InformationISBN 9780415145657Author Alan SinfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading by Alan Sinfield 9780198119951
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €75.21If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance? This key question in the politics of reading and... -
Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century by Alan Sinfield 9780300191561
Booksplease Price: €47.54This intriguing and authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day. Alan Sinfield argues that, despite and because of censorship and... -
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism Alan Sinfield (University of Sussex, UK) 9780415402361
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical... -
Joe Orton: A Casebook Francesca Coppa 9780815336273
RRP: €115.42Booksplease Price: €101.75While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works,... -
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism by Jonathan Dollimore 9780719043529
Booksplease Price: €28.01The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates... -
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory by Professor Mary Thomas Crane
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €49.93Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the... -
Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Construction of Woman by Mary F. Brewer 9781902210193
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €39.14Focusing on dramatic works by contemporary British and American playwrights, in conjunction with feminist political and theoretical texts, this book discusses feminist constructions of the category... -
Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences by Ken Plummer 9780415064217
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian... -
Gide's Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing by Michael Lucey 9780195080872
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €71.48Gide's Bent investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide, one of the first "out" modern writers. Focusing on his writing of the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote... -
Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews by Nicholas Mirzoeff 9780415166706
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65This is the first book to examine the connections between diaspora - the movement, whether forced or voluntary, of a nation or group of people from one homeland to another - and its representations... -
Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory by Christopher Marlow 9781472572967
Booksplease Price: €123.06Arden Shakespeare and Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the... -
British Culture of the Post-War: An Introduction to Literature and Society 1945-1999 by Alastair Davies 9780415128117
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66From Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on... -
Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities by David T. Evans
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This enthralling and provocative book provides a new grounding for the understanding of sexual rights. It argues that all varieties of sexuality under capitalism are materially constructed out of the... -
Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay Doctor David Alderson 9781783605125
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.19The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist... -
Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay by David Alderson 9781783605132
Booksplease Price: €108.75The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist... -
Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood by Mary Brewer
Booksplease Price: €129.88What does feminism mean at the millennium? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists anymore, and, if so, in what form? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist; are we... -
Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook by Chris White 9780415153065
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €46.02Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable outside specialised academic libraries. Chris White... -
Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle by Gerhard Joseph 9780521019699
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €46.66This 1992 study of Tennyson evolves its themes from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin... -
Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle by Gerhard Joseph 9780521413909
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51This 1992 study of Tennyson evolves its themes from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin... -
Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 1 by Lindsay Smith
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.43Since 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... -
Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 2 by Lindsay Smith
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Since 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: €108.73Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction,... -
British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics by Mireia Aragay 9780230005099
Booksplease Price: €55.62This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a... -
Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory by Christopher Marlow 9781472572936
Booksplease Price: €43.36Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the... -
Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle by Penny McCarthy 9781138265004
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €59.37An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the... -
Othello by Lena Cowen Orlin 9780333633571
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.07With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780141396507
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's... -
Cultural Materialism: Theory and Practice Scott Wilson (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631185338
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €46.18In 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... -
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare by Martin Coyle 9780333668986
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €33.12This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice... -
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader by Kiernan Ryan 9780340614587
Booksplease Price: €34.37New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. Their conquest of Renaissance studies has escalated into global... -
Marlowe by Avraham Oz 9780333624982
Booksplease Price: €122.70Christopher Marlowe is known not only as Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, but also as one of the most intriguing figures of the English Renaissance. The mystery of his death in a...