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Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the... -
The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism by Marc Redfield
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first... -
Legacies of Paul de Man by Marc Redfield 9780823227617
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with "deconstruction," but with a "deconstruction in America" that... -
Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan by Marc Redfield 9780823289066
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £74.37Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities. In the Book of Judges, the... -
Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" by Marc Redfield 9780801432361
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.46Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He... -
The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism by Marc Redfield 9780804744607
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £82.90This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first... -
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Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" by Marc Redfield
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He... -
The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror by Marc Redfield 9780823231249
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom "9/11": a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the... -
The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror by Marc Redfield 9780823231232
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £57.32The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom "9/11": a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the... -
Aesthetics and The Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter by Alexander Regier 9780230549197
Booksplease Price: £46.28Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary... -
High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction by Janet Farrell Brodie
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £22.16High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a... -
Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles Dewey W. Hall 9781793635587
Booksplease Price: £75.81A matter-based approach to the study of nineteenth-century Romantic artifacts centering on the removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Athens, Greece by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, and... -
Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion by Thomas Pfau 9780822320913
Booksplease Price: £40.26Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and... -
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism After the Holocaust by Pieter Vermeulen 9781441140494
Booksplease Price: £40.79Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust offers the first comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things:... -
Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion by Thomas Pfau 9780822320777
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £84.45Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and... -
Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism by Kir Kuiken 9780823257676
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.30Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized... -
Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde by E.S. Burt 9780823230907
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is... -
Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking by Samuel Weber 9780823224760
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting... -
Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience by Anne-Lise Francois
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves (1678), Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), and poems by William... -
Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism by Elizabeth A. Fay 9781793635693
Booksplease Price: £33.49Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism traces the historical, cultural and intellectual affiliations between Ancient Egypt and Romantic-period Britain and Germany, including the... -
Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity by Stefani Engelstein 9780231180412
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous-yet unacknowledged-conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way... -
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic by Jacques Lezra 9780823232369
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.65Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of... -
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter 9780823228188
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.28In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature"... -
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter 9780823228171
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £74.67In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature"...