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The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler 9780804753739
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Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.85This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the... -
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this... -
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Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler 9780804747097 [USED COPY]
RRP: $167.20Booksplease Price: $16.72Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate,... -
Enjoying the Bible – Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures by Matthew Mullins
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.52Christianity Today 2022 Book Award of Merit (Beautiful Orthodoxy) Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort,... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an... -
Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction by Steven Mailloux
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69In Interpretive Conventions, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature. He examines five... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780393979176
Booksplease Price: $27.63Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new... -
Why I Love Barthes Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780745650791
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $18.28The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: $53.20Booksplease Price: $43.02In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to... -
Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics by David Nowell Smith 9780823251537
RRP: $100.70Booksplease Price: $89.78Sounding/Silence charts Heidegger's deep engagement with poetry, situating it within the internal dynamics of his thought and within the domains of poetics and literary criticism. Heidegger viewed... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler 9780823225040
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $41.65What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: $39.81Booksplease Price: $34.11The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often... -
Fictional Minds by Alan Palmer 9780803218352
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the...