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  • Feminism and Popular Culture

    Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

    by Rebecca Munford, Melanie Waters ...
    When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had never even been born, a fictional universe filled with suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Poetry and Autobiography

    Edited by Jo Gill, Melanie Waters ...
    Series series Life Writing
    This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems by Martha ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • This Little Art

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    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Use and Abuse of Literature

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • On Stories

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • Style: An Anti-Textbook

    by Richard A. Lanham ...
    “A necessary manual for those interested in the perpetuation, and the possibilities, of good English prose.”—Harper’s Magazine“[Lanham’s] style is notable for its audacity, liveliness, and grace.”—The Times Literary Supplement“The most applicably provocative book on the subject of prose style available. Imperative reading for all teachers and students of writing.”—ChoiceThis humorous and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Morality of Laughter

    by F. H. Buckley ...
    “Bravo! I’ll say nothing funny about it, for it is asuperior piece of work.”—P. J. O’Rourke“F. H. Buckley’s The Morality of Laughter is at oncea humorous look at serious matters and a seriousbook about humor.”—Crisis Magazine“Buckley has written a . ne and funny book that willbe read with pleasure and instruction.”—First Things“. . . written elegantly and often wittily. . . .”—Nat... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence

    Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews

    by Donato Mancini ...
    While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus