Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. In Volumen 3 of Las literaturas hisp?nicas: Introducci?n a su estudio, Evelyn Picon Garfield and Ivan A. Schulman include selections from more than forty Spanish American authors from the sixteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 661. Weight in Grams: 816.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814318652
- ISBN
- 9780814318652
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Condition: New
€ 56.43
€ 56.43
Paperback. Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle's work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671239
- ISBN
- 9780745671239
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Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403937063
- ISBN
- 9781403937063
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Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Paperback. In his exhibition and accompanying essay for the "Taking Sides" programme at the Louvre, Jean Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 220 pages, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 298 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1150.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226771366
- ISBN
- 9780226771366
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Condition: New
€ 58.89€ 50.94
€ 58.89
€ 50.94
Paperback. Previously out of print, Shelley's long poem explores issues of sexuality, revolution, art, and the nature of love. Editor(s): Nersessian, Anahid. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811946
- ISBN
- 9781554811946
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.04
€ 38.99
€ 36.04
paperback. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; DSB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349331833
- ISBN
- 9781349331833
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardback. Editor(s): Artieres, Philippe; Bert, Jean-Francois; Potte-Bonneville, Mathieu; Revel, Judith. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816693238
- ISBN
- 9780816693238
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Condition: New
€ 33.81
€ 33.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; CFA; DSA; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403921659
- ISBN
- 9781403921659
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Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; CFA; DSA; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349515462
- ISBN
- 9781349515462
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH; HBJD1; HBL; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314898
- ISBN
- 9781349314898
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 2AFR; CFB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237506
- ISBN
- 9780230237506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110458
- ISBN
- 9780230110458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292899
- ISBN
- 9781349292899
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Sercombe, Peter; Tupas, Ruanni. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; CFB; DS; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546336
- ISBN
- 9781349546336
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Condition: New
€ 126.92
€ 126.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801492044
- ISBN
- 9780801492044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Explores S Y Agnon's theological and philosophical attitudes toward language, attitudes that to a large extent shaped his poetics and aesthetic values. Drawing on anthologies compiled by Agnon, this book examines his theoretical orientation and the ways he integrated into his poetics ideas about language that are rooted in Jewish theology. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSG; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- English ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632276
- ISBN
- 9780815632276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.82
€ 51.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932589351
- ISBN
- 9781932589351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.66
€ 37.66
Paperback. Contains nine short stories painting an array of locals caught up in failed dreams of financial success and romantic fulfilment. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985275
- ISBN
- 9780295985275
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Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Hardback. This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723879
- ISBN
- 9780804723879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.96
€ 116.96
Hardcover. Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618763
- ISBN
- 9780230618763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view. Num Pages: 532 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520001923
- ISBN
- 9780520001923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.66
€ 43.99
€ 31.66
Hardcover. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608368
- ISBN
- 9780230608368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
paperback. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309863
- ISBN
- 9781349309863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables, graphs. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761812630
- ISBN
- 9780761812630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.74
€ 117.74