The Silent Life of Things: Reading and Representing Commodified Objecthood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443883689)

Daniela Rogobete is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of British, American and German Studies, University of Craiova, Romania. Her publications include When Texts Come into Play-Intertexts and Intertextuality (2003), Metaphor - Between Language and Thought (2008), and Deconstructing Silence - Ambiguity and Censored Metaphors in Salman Rushdie's Fiction (2010).

Jonathan P. A. Sell lectures in English at the University of Alcalá, Spain. He is the author of Rhetoric and Wonder in English Renaissance Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (2006), Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing (2010) and Conocer a Shakespeare (2012), and the editor of Metaphor and Diaspora in Recent Writing (2012).

Alan Munton is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, UK. He has worked extensively on the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis and also published on Will Self, Picasso's reception in Britain, the Spanish Civil War, contemporary poetry, the process of quotation, and jazz. He is currently preparing a book on Lewis.