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Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original... -
Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky 9780415700306
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54A topic that has become increasingly central to the study of art, performance and literature, the term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original... -
The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy by Matthew Potolsky 9780367671228
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on... -
The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley by Matthew Potolsky 9780812244496
Booksplease Price: £79.56While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and... -
Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts by E. Clements 9780230234970
Booksplease Price: £46.28The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. 'True aesthetic criticism' takes place working... -
Rereading Walter Pater by William F. Shuter 9780521572217
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance himself from his earlier, more... -
Rereading Walter Pater by William F. Shuter 9780521019811
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance himself from his earlier, more... -
Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance by Liz Constable
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a... -
Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns To Mimesis Nidesh Lawtoo 9789462704411
Booksplease Price: £34.12Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the... -
Gabriele D'Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception by Elisa Segnini 9781399506861
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Gabriele D'Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred... -
Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry by Robert Stilling
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.89During the struggle for decolonization, Frantz Fanon argued that artists who mimicked European aestheticism were "beginning at the end," skipping the inventive phase of youth for a decadence thought...