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The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of... -
The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler
Booksplease Price: £15.34To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers... -
The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler 9780415255363
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler 9780804753739
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theory of the Lyric by Jonathan Culler 9780674979703
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29This 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29What 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... -
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.24With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is... -
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of... -
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler 9780801487934
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.14The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary... -
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler 9780415461511
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is... -
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler 9780415289894
Booksplease Price: £15.34A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of... -
Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Is 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,... -
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Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena by Jonathan Culler 9780804747097 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80Is 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,... -
Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals by Sylvie Patron
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Twentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this... -
Enjoying the Bible – Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures by Matthew Mullins
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.01Christianity 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,... -
Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words by Mutlu Konuk Blasing 9780691126821
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a... -
Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form by Ben Glaser 9780823282043
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £95.30This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a... -
The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance by Terence Cave 9780198158356
Booksplease Price: £63.01This seminal book examines the interaction of literary practice and theory in 16th-century France in the context of the great Renaissance writers, Erasmus, Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.ReviewsA... -
Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form by Ben Glaser
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a... -
High Romantic Argument: Essays for M. H. Abrams by Lawrence Lipking 9780801476778
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32M. H. Abrams's writings on the Romantics have had an incalculable influence on the literary history of his time. High Romantic Argument, treating as it does various aspects of Abrams's work, is in a... -
Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson Pheng Cheah 9780415943369
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is... -
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The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey 9780140513691 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.35Accessing 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... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Accessing 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... -
The Lyric Subject: A Reconceptualization by Varja Balžalorsky Antić 9783631833636
RRP: £49.70Booksplease Price: £44.80This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical issues related to the lyric subject. Specifically, what kind of subject is the... -
Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium by Avital Ronell
Booksplease Price: £25.90Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce,... -
Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P. Tompkins
Booksplease Price: £27.10With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.About... -
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 9780199535583
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology by Jonathan Potter 9781032575131
Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction by Ross Chambers 9780816612987
Booksplease Price: £26.64Ross Chambers shifs the emphasis to precisely the play of authority and mastery by focusing on the narrative situation or the "point" of telling a story in given context. He studies the relation... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology Jonathan Potter 9781032575179
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics by Jeffrey Berman 9781501373008
Booksplease Price: £33.49Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous... -
Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics by Jeffrey Berman 9781501372964
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £31.22Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous... -
Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies by Adalgisa Giorgio 9781803741550
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets... -
Future Theory: A Bloomsbury Handbook to Critical Concepts by Marc Botha
RRP: £160.00Booksplease Price: £48.44By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition. It demonstrates how entangled the highly... -
Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant by Kevin McLaughlin
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth... -
Reading with Peter Brooks Rachel Bowlby 9781399538381
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99For many decades Peter Brooks's critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable books that continue to generate new thinking. Reading for... -
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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... -
Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction by Steven Mailloux
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In 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... -
The Rhetoric of Romanticism by Paul de Man 9780231055277
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism.Reading Paul de Man taught a...