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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek sees art's significance in its critique of power and the increasing technologization of social relations. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750110
ISBN
9780804750110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816691982
ISBN
9780816691982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

Hardcover. Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed to whet every reader's appetite. Featuring diverse writers and interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers and epicurean explorers. Editor(s): Bodleian Library the. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 29. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851244218
ISBN
9781851244218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.86

Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520072800
ISBN
9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70
€ 49.44

paperback. This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740784
ISBN
9780804740784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691603476
ISBN
9780691603476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Published in 1994, this is a paperback edition edition of a study of the life and writings of literary pioneer, Lydia Maria Child. Her writing made and impact on American life as she addressed the issues of her time: slavery, women's rights, treatm Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 832 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1429.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
832
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KEX0212593
ISBN
9780822321637
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardback. A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; BK; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 243 x 54. Weight in Grams: 940.
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784975975
ISBN
9781784975975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691164472
ISBN
9780691164472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140182750
ISBN
9780140182750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

hardcover. This latest collection of texts, which focus on the "mystery" of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power, offer a window onto Giorgio Agamben's most current research. Translator(s): Chiesa, Lorenzo. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4522 x 2921. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804798716
ISBN
9780804798716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.25

Paperback. This latest collection of texts, which focus on the "mystery" of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power, offer a window onto Giorgio Agamben's most current research. Translator(s): Chiesa, Lorenzo. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4522 x 2921. .
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503601642
ISBN
9781503601642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. This is the first English translation of "Il Fiore", the late 13th century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French "Roman de la Rose" and the "Detto d'Amore", a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. Editor(s): Casciani, Santa; Kleinhenz, Christopher. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268008932
ISBN
9780268008932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 58.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781517901523
ISBN
9781517901523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England Editor(s): Bristow, Joseph. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821416280
ISBN
9780821416280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745609874
ISBN
9780745609874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.14

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636658
ISBN
9780691636658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.73
€ 68.41

Paperback. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894800
ISBN
9780801894800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.85

Hardback. This volume is an analysis of the development of female heroic subjectivity in relation to an essentially male quest for individuation, the Romantic myth of Faust. It examines the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James and Morgner. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. . An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press University Park
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KRS0018887
ISBN
9780271007595
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

hardcover. Offers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226014623
ISBN
9780226014623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.65
€ 89.55

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's complicated feminism by exploring the renowned writer's theories of sexuality and evolutionary analyses of androcentric, or male-dominated, culture. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014630
ISBN
9780226014630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.27

Paperback. Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.' Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208889
ISBN
9780520208889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.86

Hardback. This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. Editor(s): Smith, Prof Andrew; Wallace, Diana. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230222717
ISBN
9780230222717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.12
€ 124.95

Hardcover. This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ni Chuilleanain's poetry emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical images and create a more multidimensional perspective on women's lives and achievements. Num Pages: 204 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
204
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184981
ISBN
9781859184981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

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