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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This is the first book to collect the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates. The selections in this book will enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context. Editor(s): Nicol, Bran. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 246 x 30. Weight in Grams: 846.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748614790
ISBN
9780748614790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.42

paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816614684
ISBN
9780816614684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardcover. Starts from the assumption that, whether we like it or not, we live in a postmodern environment, one characterized by turbulence, fluidity, relativity, commotion, uncertainty, and lightning-fast communication and change. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813216843
ISBN
9780813216843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.38

Paperback. Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557534798
ISBN
9781557534798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319410050
ISBN
9783319410050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.31

Hardback. Postmodern Paletos traces a history of the representation and construction of the figure of the immigrant and of the city/country dynamic in Spanish narrative and film from 1950 to 2000. It concentrates in particular on Franco's uses of these images to promote his politics and then on the deconstruction of these uses. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481532
ISBN
9781611481532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.40

Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439727
ISBN
9781137439727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Paperback. * Introduces complex arguments in lively accessible form. * Deals with key contemporary theorists and historicizes postmodernism, back from Heidegger to Hobbes, and to its eighteenth--century origins. * Discusses postmodern fiction by such authors as Acker, Auster, Barth, and Pynchon. . Num Pages: 296 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200017
ISBN
9780631200017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.85

Paperback. Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to a postmodernisma . Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. Editor(s): Lucy, Niall. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631210283
ISBN
9780631210283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.36

Paperback. Translator(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625550
ISBN
9780816625550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature, this title shows how belief for its own sake has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JMC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145754
ISBN
9780691145754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.69

Hardcover. Editor(s): Iqbal Viswamohan, Aysha. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Anthem Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857285645
ISBN
9780857285645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.69

paperback. Editor(s): Hoffmann, Lukas. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Transcript Publishing Germany
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837636611
ISBN
9783837636611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.21

Hardback. Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which wheeled into the 20th century. Translator(s): Friedman, Roger. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780804727099
ISBN
9780804727099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

Hardback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Jami; Colebrook, Claire. Series: Critical Life Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB; HPCF7; JFFR; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172141
ISBN
9780231172141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.84
€ 89.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Jami; Colebrook, Claire. Series: Critical Life Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB; HPCF7; JFFR; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172158
ISBN
9780231172158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Hardcover. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662404
ISBN
9780745662404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662411
ISBN
9780745662411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.55

Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228508
ISBN
9780823228508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405120944
ISBN
9781405120944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.09

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