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Book SynopsisAnimates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Forms of Materiality in James Joyces Fiction
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies ? cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological ? that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
£35.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Queer Theory Readers in Cultural Criticism
Book SynopsisIAIN MORLAND is Lecturer in Cultural Criticism at Cardiff University.DR DINO WILLOX is currently Director of Student Employability at the University of Queensland, responsible for empowering students to identify, engage with, and learn from experiences that enhance their studies and develop their employability.
£33.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Style in Theory Between Literature and Philosophy
Book SynopsisGloria Lauri-Lucente is Director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, Malta.Trade ReviewDoes style matter? It is a question that goes right to the heart of the traditionally fraught relationship between literature and philosophy. Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy is an important and timely collection of essays that answers this question with an emphatic and compelling ‘yes'. Offering an impressive range of profound and engaging reflections on the question of style in its various literary and philosophical manifestations, Style in Theory shows us why we ought to be thinking about style differently. -- Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New York, USA[T]he volume makes a valuable contribution to the study of style at the intersection of literature and philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. -- P.I. Vieira, Georgetown University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: 'Style in Theory and Practice: Literature, Philosophy, and Writing the Space Between' Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente 1. Style in Theory - Styling Theory Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania) 2. Style in Deconstruction Laurent Milesi (Cardiff University) 3. Style and History in Diderot and Winckelmann Saul Anton (The New School & Pratt) 4. Petrarch and the Birth of Style Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta) 5. Style, Rhetoric and Identity in Shakespearean Soliloquy Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) 6. Theory ... For Life Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University) 7. Style is the Man: Meillassoux, Heidegger and Finitude James Corby (University of Malta) 8. Style and Arrogance: The Ethics of Heidegger's Style Chris Muller (Cardiff University) 9. Nietzsche, Style, Body Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University) 10. Style in communication: The Hip Swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés Fiona Hughes (University of Essex) 11. Writing without (Re)Styl(e)(ing) : Hélène Cixous on the Path of Error Janice Sant (Cardiff University) 12. Deleuze or the V-Effect: Philosophy on a Mobile Cusp Marie-Dominique Garnier (Université de Paris-8 Vincennes-à-St-Denis) 13. 'This song to come, this reader to become': Reading Blanchot's Style of Paradox in 'René Char' Mario Aquilina (Durham University) 14. Learning to Style Finally: Lateness in Theory Ivan Callus (University of Malta) Afterword Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale) Notes Bibliography Index
£37.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Studying the Novel
Book SynopsisNow in its seventh edition, Studying the Novel is an authoritative introduction to the study of the novel at undergraduate level. Updated throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the contemporary study of literature, the book also now includes a wider range of international examples to reflect the growing field of world literature.Providing a complete guide to studying the novel in one easy-to-read volume, the book covers: The form of the novel The history of the novel, from its earliest days to new electronic forms Realism, modernism and postmodernism Analysing fiction: narrative, character, structure, theme and dialogue Critical approaches to studying the novel Practical guidance on critical reading, secondary criticism, electronic resources and essay writing Versions and adaptationsStudying the Novel also includes a number of features to help readers navigate the book and find key information quickly, including chapter summaries tTrade ReviewAn excellent resource, not only for students studying the novel at university, but for trainee teachers teaching the novel in schools. * Michaela Smith, Edge Hill University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the seventh edition 1. Fiction and the Novel 2. History, Genre, Culture 3. Shorter Fiction 4. Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism 5. Fiction and Electronic Media 6. Analysing Fiction 7. Studying the Novel 8. Versions and Adaptations 9. Critical Approaches to Fiction Timeline of the Novel Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory
Book SynopsisShakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category human is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.Trade ReviewAn excellent orientation to this theory and practice that will interest multiple audiences. In no-nonsense prose, Raber sets out the intellectual genealogy of posthumanism… * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: We Have Never Been Humanist: Genealogies of Posthumanism Chapter 2: Posthuman Cosmography Chapter 3: Bodies and Minds Chapter 4: Neither Fish nor Fowl Chapter 5: TechnoBard Chapter 6: Post-posthumanism? Back to the Future Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
Edinburgh University Press Animalities
Book SynopsisRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to 20th-century literature and film.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Haptic Modernism
Book SynopsisHow does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently to bring about an existential crisis? This book offers a coherent history of ideas of the haptic, tracing their impact on literary innovation.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Times
Book SynopsisFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' offers fresh insight into modern narrative.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Book SynopsisExplores the materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Cinematicity
Book SynopsisIn this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Ranciere and Literature
Book SynopsisThese 13 essays consolidate and critique Ranciere's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Literary Devolution
Book SynopsisConsidering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of 'voice', language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Is Shylock Jewish
Book SynopsisThis book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major post-1945 works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Living in Technical Legality
Book SynopsisThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Irigaray and Politics
Book SynopsisBringing together Luce Irigaray's early psychoanalytically orientated writings with her more recent and more explicitly political writings, this book weaves together the ontological, political and ethical dimensions of Irigaray's philosophy of sexuate difference in imaginative ways.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Anxious Men
Book SynopsisMasculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: anxiety, conformity and masculinity 1. ‘Organisation Man’, domestic ideology and manhood 2. ‘Everything in him had come undone’: violent aggression, courage, and masculine identity 3. Representing sexualities and gender 4. Identity and assimilation in Jewish-American fiction 5. African-American identity and masculinity Afterword Works cited and consulted Index
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Conrad and Language
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection examine Conrad's engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Contaminations
Book SynopsisCombining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James s, H. Melville s and H. G. Wells s novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare in Hindsight
Book SynopsisThis bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare s tragedies.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Anthony Trollopes Late Style
Book SynopsisExamines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope explored in his final decade
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Romanticism
Book SynopsisZoe Beenstock examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. Her reading offers a new understanding of canonical accounts of retreat by some of British Romanticism s most dominant voices.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Fashion and Interwar Women Writers
Book SynopsisModernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers' demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity's economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisShakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Feminism and Womens Short Stories
Book SynopsisThis book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Feminism and Womens Short Stories
Book SynopsisThis book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Gothic and Theory
Book SynopsisThis collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Conceiving Desire
Book SynopsisDrawing from cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Gillian Knoll traces the contours of three conceptual metaphors motion, space and creativity that shape desire in plays by John Lyly and William Shakespeare.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Book SynopsisThis volume views Doris Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Narrative and Becoming
Book SynopsisRidvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer the question, 'what is narrative?'
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Classical Tradition in Modern American
Book SynopsisThis book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Queer Defamiliarisation
Book SynopsisHelen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press British AvantGarde Fiction of the 1960s
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Pina Bauschs Dance Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of performance practice.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Steins Transmasculinity
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and writings through the lens of transgender theory.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Animal Writing
Book SynopsisCombining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois to propose a method of thinking of and with animals.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Queering the Second Wave
Book SynopsisExplores a series of unsung and sometimes counterintuitive resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Lara Cox and Lisa Downing; Articles: The Queer Body of MLF Literature, Anne Emmanuelle Berger; `Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado, Elliot Evans; Fucking the body, rewriting the text: Proto-queer embodiment through textual drag in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973), Kayte Stokoe; Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), Lara Cox; Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye, Ulrika Dahl; Anticommunal, Antiegalitarian, Antinurturing, Antiloving: Sex and the `Irredeemable’ in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Alex Dymock; Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, and Proto-Queer Theory, Lisa Downing; Interviews: Interview with Paola Bacchetta; Interview with J. J. Halberstam; Interview with Clare Hemmings.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Life Histories
Book SynopsisModernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry
Book SynopsisPublishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Animalities
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature' addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Muriel Spark Existentialism and the Art of Death
Book SynopsisThis book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations.
£20.89
