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  • Space, Mirrors, Subjectivity in Angela Carter’s Fiction

    by Jiang Xiaobo ...
    Angela Carter is known for her style—daring, disturbing, excessive—and her efforts to destroy and demystify every social norm. But she does more than dare. With sharp and subtle sensitivity, Carter disintegrates paradigms of temporality and mind enshrined by western philosophical tradition. She recognizes and illustrates how our modern alienation and disorientation derive more from spatial anxiety ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    What is Literary Theory? What is the relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be impenetrable. It offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

    by Sara Upstone ...
    Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Ugly Feelings

    by Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edited by David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 50 - Sexual Cultures
    A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholarsCruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Modern Feminist Theory

    An Introduction

    by Jennifer Rich ...
    An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker; Patricia Hill Collins), French Feminism (Luce Irigaray; Hélène Cixous; Monique Wittig; Julia ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hooked

    Art and Attachment

    by Rita Felski ...
    "Examines the way we connect to novels, films, paintings and music, and argues that our enthusiasms should be an integral part of conversations about art." —Helen Thaventhiran, London Review of BooksHow does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In The Break

    The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

    by Fred Moten ...
    Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair, ... Read more

    $31.59 CAD

  • Exhausting Dance

    Performance and the Politics of Movement

    by Andre Lepecki ...
    The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Black Trans Feminism

    by Marquis Bey ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Time Binds

    Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

    by Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD