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Toward a Philosophy of the Act by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.66These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician... -
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in... -
Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Art and Answerability contains three of Mikhail Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates,... -
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M. M. Bakhtin
Booksplease Price: £23.17'About the AuthorAlbert J. Wehrle taught Russian at Goucher College and the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a traqnslator in Washington, D.C.ReviewsWith this critical study... the most... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £31.99Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or... -
The Vocation of Sara Coleridge: Authorship and Religion by Robin Schofield 9783319889283
Booksplease Price: £46.88This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of... -
Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community by Leszek Koczanowicz
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This book uses the concept of dialogue in Bakhtin and others to productively move democratic theory forward. Contemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of... -
Incarnational Art Of Flannery O'Connor by Christina Bieber Lake 9780881467062
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.74The Incarnational Art Of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories... -
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393976120
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.98"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition... -
The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan 9780198184997
Booksplease Price: £66.22This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective,... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community Leszek Koczanowicz 9781399565929
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Contemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with today's social problems. Leszek Koczanowicz sheds new light on this... -
Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism by Christina Bieber Lake
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M...