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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. Editor(s): Elmarsafy, Ziad. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303522
- ISBN
- 9780230303522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.92
€ 67.92
paperback. Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. Editor(s): Elmarsafy, Ziad. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349338177
- ISBN
- 9781349338177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403968203
- ISBN
- 9781403968203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Wang, B.; Zhong, X. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJF; JFC; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437511
- ISBN
- 9781349437511
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. "Decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Massachusetts Press Boston
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870239922
- ISBN
- 9780870239922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.57
€ 33.57
Hardcover. Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945. Editor(s): Landgraf, Diemo. Num Pages: 245 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431011
- ISBN
- 9781137431011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siecle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008274
- ISBN
- 9780230008274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siecle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment. Through a close examination of the textures of the novels, Kventsel defines and explores their psycho-cultural field of meaning." Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349283873
- ISBN
- 9781349283873
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Walsh, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 293 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349500802
- ISBN
- 9781349500802
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Condition: New
€ 160.20
€ 160.20
Hardcover. Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. Editor(s): Walsh, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 293 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; ACV; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470881
- ISBN
- 9781137470881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Fox, Paul. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray; Sazalan, Azden. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783898215732
- ISBN
- 9783898215732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.60
€ 36.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784991036
- ISBN
- 9781784991036
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Condition: New
€ 39.69
€ 39.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSBH; DSBH5; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480043
- ISBN
- 9781349480043
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David; Murray, Alex. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467624
- ISBN
- 9781349467624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. .
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140424133
- ISBN
- 9780140424133
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Hardback. Kuhns approaches Decameronfrom a variety of literary, philosophical, and historical perspectives. He argues that Decameroncontains a theory of storytelling and reveals the ways in which Decameron'scomic and sexual elements lead into philosophical debate and moral argument. Kuhns also suggests that Decameronis one of the first self-conscious creations of a "total work of art." Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136082
- ISBN
- 9780231136082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 51.34
€ 64.77
€ 51.34
Hardback. The second of the University of Toronto Press's interpretive guides to Boccaccio's Decameron, this collection forms part of an ambitious project to examine the entire Decameron, Day by Day. Editor(s): Ciabattoni, Francesco; Forni, Pier Massimo. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648241
- ISBN
- 9781442648241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.60
€ 75.60
Paperback. The record of the young Angelica Garnett's struggle to emerge from the extraordinary and intense milieu of the Bloomsbury Set as a mature and independent woman. She creates a poignant picture of her mother, Vanessa Bell, of her own emerging individuality, and of the Bloomsbury era. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJG; 3JJH; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712662666
- ISBN
- 9780712662666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Hardback. Storytellers have long been agents of socialization. This text traces the evolution of female characters in young adult fiction from their passive role in books published prior to the 20th century to their increasingly assertive role in books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, footnotes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842908
- ISBN
- 9780810842908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066960
- ISBN
- 9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.92
€ 31.99
€ 26.92
Paperback. On the construction of Irish national identity, drawing on Irish history from the late nineteenth century to the present. Series: Contemporary Irish Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AFR; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745312279
- ISBN
- 9780745312279
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.81
€ 40.99
€ 31.81
Hardcover. This text explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonized societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJW; 1MKP; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333638699
- ISBN
- 9780333638699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. The author argues that deconstruction is a form of radical, anti-scientific modernity, while in contrast poststructuralism is a type of postmodern theory inflected by changes in technology and the mode of information. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804745024
- ISBN
- 9780804745024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. A wonderfully helpful and stimulating book.. Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library Journal Editor(s): Caputo, John D. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Number of pages
- 215
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217557
- ISBN
- 9780823217557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36