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Sidney To Milton, 1580-1660

by Julian Wolfreys e Marion Wynne-Davies

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of early modern Britain, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing an introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well known authors.
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Terry Eagleton

by David Alderson

40,53€ + 10% CARD

 This is an account of Marxist cultural theorist, David Alderson, who provides detailed discussions of Eagleton's Marxism and his engagements with postmodernism, as well as an evaluation of his interventions in Irish studies.
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Race

by Brian Niro

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 This study of the history of the idea of race provides a broad historical overview of the concept from its inception to 2002. Brian Niro introduces key theorists and philosophers and a wide variety of literary and theoretical concepts.
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Queer Theories

by Donald E. Hall

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 This essential introductory guide explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It explains the history of sexual identity categories, such as ''gay'' and ''lesbian'', covers the reclamation of ''queer'' as a term of radical self-identification, and details recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall offers concrete applications of the abstract theories he explores, with imaginative new readings of such works as ''The Yellow Wallpaper'', Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Orlando and The Color Purple. Throughout, Hall urges the reader to grapple with the changing nature of sexual identity in the twenty-first century and asks searching questions about how we might identify ourselves differently given new technologies and new possibilities for sexual experimentation. To students, theorists and activists alike, Queer Theories issues a challenge to continue to disrupt narrow, traditional notions of sexual ''normality'' and to resist setting up new and confining categories of ''true'' sexual identity.
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New Historicism And Cultural Materialism

by John Brannigan

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking about literature in relation to history. This study explains the development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for the theories is explored and the controversial debates about their validity in literary studies are discussed.
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Ideology

by James Decker

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview of key terms and issues and a thoughtful assessment of some of the important critical thinkers associated with the notion, including Marx, Gramsci and Althusser. Ideological theories are introduced within three broad categories - the subjective, the institutional and the political - which helps students to synthesize a concept that sprawls across the traditional disciplinary lines of philosophy, politics, economics, history and cultural and literary studies. Close readings of key texts demonstrate the impact of ideology on critical practice and literary reputation. Texts include: - Toni Morrison''s Sula - William Faulkner''s ''Barn Burning'' - George Orwell''s 1984 Compact and easy-to-follow, Decker''s study finally asks: are we now in a ''post-ideological'' era?
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Pope To Burney, 1714-1779 - Scriblerians To Bluestockings

by Moyra Haslett

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts - including The Dunciad, Gulliver''s Travels and Pamela - in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.
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Pater To Forster, 1873-1924

by Ruth Robbins

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 Ruth Robbins considers some of the central literary categories and themes of the "age of transition" period, between 1873 and 1924, in writings by major and "minor" writers - decadence, realism and naturalism, nostalgia, New Woman writing, degeneration, imperialism and early modernism.
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Bataille

by Fred Botting e Scott Wilson

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 This text offers examples of ways of reading literary and cultural texts in the light of Bataille's work. The chapters explore Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression and eroticism, demonstrating their significance for both contemporary and futural modes of cultural analysis.
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Transgression - Identity, Space, Time

by Julian Wolfreys

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 Introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. This book demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.
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Subjectivity

by Ruth Robbins

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 Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William Wordsworth''s Prelude - Thomas De Quincey''s Confessions of an English Opium Eater - James Joyce''s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Oscar Wilde''s De Profundis - Jung Chang''s Wild Swans Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood, there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying ''autobiography'' or ''autobiographical writing''.
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Roland Barthes

by Martin Mcquillan

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new book, Martin McQuillan provides students with a fresh and stimulating perspective on Barthes' work, his lasting contribution to the formation of critical cultural studies and his continuing relevance today.
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Postmodern Narrative Theory

by Mark Currie

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 How have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world? In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition: • establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world • charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrative • explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely • presents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevenson''s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzee''s Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction.
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Jacques Lacan - Psychoanalysis And The Subject Of Literature

by Jean-Michel Rabat

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 The French theorist Jacques Lacan has always been called a "literary" theoretician. This is a study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought.
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Homi K. Bhabha

by Eleanor Byrne

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 This comprehensive introduction to the work of Homi K. Bhabha, a key figure in both postcolonial and post-structuralist theory, is accessible and engaging. It places Bhabha's work in context, considers his effect on contemporary criticism, offers readings of a range of texts to illustrate his theories, and features an interview with the theorist.
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Dickens To Hardy 1837-1884 - The Novel, The Past And Cultural Memory In The Nineteenth Century

by Julian Wolfreys

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wilkie Collins - George Eliot - Thomas Hardy. Wolfreys explores the novelists'' constructions of modernity, national identity and their understanding of ''becoming historical'' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role of cultural memory in the making of identity. Also featuring a helpful Chronology and an Annotated Bibliography to aid further study, this stimulating guide encourages readers to reassess the work of key writers of the nineteenth century.
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Gender

by Claire Colebrook

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 Why has Western thought been so persistent in its organisation of human bodies, and other categories, in terms of the binary opposition male and female? Is gender nothing more than an ideology, or does it have its basis in sexual difference? This invaluable introductory guide offers a clear overview of the concept, and problem, of gender. Claire Colebrook places the term in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and exploring recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein, Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night''s Dream, shows how specific styles of literature enable reflection on gender.
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Orwell To The Present - Literature In England, 1945-2000

by John Brannigan

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new ''maps'' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.
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Louis Althusser

by Warren Montag

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on Althusser's writing on art, theatre and literature (as well of those of his collaborator, Pierre Macherey), Warren Montag traces the contradictory development of Althusser's thought from the early 60s to his autobiography, "The Future Lasts Forever".
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New Historicism And Cultural Materialism

by John Brannigan

45,30€ + 10% CARD

 The author explains the development of the literary theories of new historicism and cultural materialism which emerged in the early 1980s and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for these theories is explored and the debates about their validity in literary studies are also addressed.
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Modernity

by David Punter

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we understand by ''modernity''. This book is distinguished from its competitors by its clear focus on close readings of commonly-studied texts and a strict policy on writing for an undergraduate readership.
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Deconstruction - Derrida

by Julian Wolfreys

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 The author contests the notion that what Jacques Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation and the idea that there is a critical methodology called deconstruction which can be applied to literary texts in a programmatic fashion.
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Orwell To The Present - Literature In England, 1945-2000

by John Brannigan

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new ''maps'' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.
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Dickens To Hardy 1837-1884 - The Novel, The Past And Cultural Memory In The Nineteenth Century

by Julian Wolfreys

41,72€ + 10% CARD

 This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Gaskell - Wilkie Collins - George Eliot - Thomas Hardy. Wolfreys explores the novelists'' constructions of modernity, national identity and their understanding of ''becoming historical'' in distinction from that of previous generations. He offers illuminating close readings of texts and examines narratives set in a recent past in order to investigate the role of cultural memory in the making of identity. Also featuring a helpful Chronology and an Annotated Bibliography to aid further study, this stimulating guide encourages readers to reassess the work of key writers of the nineteenth century.
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