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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Theoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to distinguish a work of contemporary criticism and what, exactly, does it mean? This book shows how the politics of sophistication pervades contemporary culture both in the mainstream and at the academic margins. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First American Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320166
ISBN
9780822320166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804736565
ISBN
9780804736565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725484
ISBN
9780804725484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.41

Hardback. In Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, characters move between life and death, and male and female, as they seek to articulate who they truly are. In this first critical study and annotated translation, Kwa considers how Wei's exploration of identity paved the way for further reflection in later fiction and drama. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066854
ISBN
9780674066854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Paperback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887079
ISBN
9780801887079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.72

Hardback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887062
ISBN
9780801887062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.62

Hardback. Examines the development in Tudor culture of a tendency to identify the common good with the health of the "motherland." Vanhoutte examines how motherland tropes came to describe England, how they changed in response to specific political crises, and how they came, by the end of the 16th century, to shape literary ideals of masculinity. Num Pages: 236 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138320
ISBN
9780874138320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.75

hardcover. With extracts from Rusyn texts never before available in English, Rusinko's study creates an entirely new perspective on Rusyn literature that rescues it from the cliches of Soviet dominated critical theory. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DV; 2AG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 42. Weight in Grams: 910.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802037114
ISBN
9780802037114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.94

Paperback. Explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness? Editor(s): Ryan, Marie-Laure; Thon, Jan-Noel. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 380 pages, 50 illustrations, 5 tables, 9 diagrams. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803245631
ISBN
9780803245631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and "get a life." So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592132133
ISBN
9781592132133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.03

hardcover. This volume is an "A to Z" collection of over 700 authoritative yet highly readable articles containing descriptive information about the major types, elements, characters, themes, titles and reference points in storytelling. Editor(s): Leeming, David Adams; Sader, Marion. Num Pages: 556 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CBP; CFG; DSB; GBC; HBTD; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 265 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1212.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
556
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573560252
ISBN
9781573560252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.42

Paperback. This text offers an appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production. It engages the debate concerning his role in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative positions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847697519
ISBN
9780847697519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.07

Hardback. This text offers an appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production. It engages the debate concerning his role in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative positions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847697502
ISBN
9780847697502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.17

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646176
ISBN
9780691646176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 35 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218459
ISBN
9780300218459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.49

Paperback. The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers. Illustrator(s): White, A.B. Series: Hardscrabble Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 71 drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874517941
ISBN
9780874517941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. Editor(s): Burroway, Janet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014104
ISBN
9780226014104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.31

Paperback. A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ADF; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
No Edition Stated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631175124
ISBN
9780631175124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Hardcover. A study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in 19th-century Georgia, this text examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters and shows how Georgian authors romanticized agrarian themes. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 2ABM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321325
ISBN
9780820321325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.47

Hardcover. Gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus' "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee Bender's "The Color Master," this book includes tales that range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596174
ISBN
9781841596174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

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