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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538829
ISBN
9781349538829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349513338
ISBN
9781349513338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334766
ISBN
9781349334766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Hardback. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067127
ISBN
9780674067127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.46

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501702365
ISBN
9781501702365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349384051
ISBN
9781349384051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. Series: Phoenix fiction series. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002849
ISBN
9780226774039
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH5; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349383443
ISBN
9781349383443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This work investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography and its uses in criticism. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power and the relation of personification to landscape. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 396 pages, 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723787
ISBN
9780804723787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.47

Hardback. The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225378
ISBN
9780823225378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Paperback. This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary work. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804742160
ISBN
9780804742160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Helps you understand the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al) in its different facets. Num Pages: 93 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
93
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193195
ISBN
9781845193195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.41

Paperback. Challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. This title considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226527222
ISBN
9780226527222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.78

Paperback. Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069109
ISBN
9780252069109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732444
ISBN
9780804732444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.51
€ 53.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349002948
ISBN
9781349002948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.74

Hardcover. This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2008th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604698
ISBN
9780230604698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH5; HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602403
ISBN
9780230602403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Based on extensive archival research, "Contesting Empires" looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; HBG; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528196
ISBN
9781349528196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349503131
ISBN
9781349503131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight into questions of otherness, rhetoric, and stereotyping. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349477463
ISBN
9781349477463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; HBJD; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349388271
ISBN
9781349388271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Paperback. Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349386017
ISBN
9781349386017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 115.64

Paperback. Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome Bruner to Stephen Greenblatt. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343324
ISBN
9781349343324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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