Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730914
- ISBN
- 9780804730914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184616
- ISBN
- 9780226184616
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.21
€ 31.99
€ 25.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490978
- ISBN
- 9781611490978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108080
- ISBN
- 9780230108080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290956
- ISBN
- 9781349290956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975630
- ISBN
- 9781555975630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.99
€ 15.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293604
- ISBN
- 9780312293604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Why did deconstruction emerge when it did? Why did commentators in literary studies seem to need to look back on it from the earliest moments of its emergence? This book argues that the invention of deconstruction was spread across several decades, conducted by many people, and focused on its two central figures, Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307026
- ISBN
- 9781137307026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415222228
- ISBN
- 9780415222228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.41
€ 40.41
Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748676293
- ISBN
- 9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.58€ 107.24
€ 111.58
€ 107.24
Paperback. Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. It also provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402354
- ISBN
- 9781474402354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.39
€ 40.99
€ 35.39
Paperback. Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748642465
- ISBN
- 9780748642465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72
Hardback. Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45, 16 colour, 29 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842804
- ISBN
- 9781843842804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.89
€ 134.89
Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926704
- ISBN
- 9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.64
€ 87.64
Paperback. This book presents new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts, providing the reader with the primary sources for the history of the ancient Near East. * A primary source book presenting new translations of Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern historiographic texts, and other related materials. Editor(s): Chavalas, Mark W. Series: Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Num Pages: 472 pages, 3. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 823.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235811
- ISBN
- 9780631235811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.60
€ 56.60
Hardback. Canuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism, queer theory, and animal studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405872
- ISBN
- 9781421405872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.30€ 49.70
€ 53.30
€ 49.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171210
- ISBN
- 9780691171210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129617
- ISBN
- 9780691129617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.47€ 55.08
€ 70.47
€ 55.08
hardcover. Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe. Num Pages: 213 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110946
- ISBN
- 9780230110946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453191
- ISBN
- 9781349453191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70