Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536951
- ISBN
- 9780230536951
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Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
paperback. This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1989
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349103379
- ISBN
- 9781349103379
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Condition: New
€ 67.20
€ 67.20
Hardback. This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliographies. BIC Classification: 3JJ; CFA; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1541.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748612550
- ISBN
- 9780748612550
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Condition: New
€ 171.37€ 160.78
€ 171.37
€ 160.78
paperback. In this collection, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation', an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us', an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definitions? Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224079266
- ISBN
- 9780224079266
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.42
€ 23.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623986
- ISBN
- 9780691623986
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.49
€ 42.99
€ 30.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650593
- ISBN
- 9780691650593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.23
€ 124.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Butler, Shane. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474260510
- ISBN
- 9781474260510
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.39
€ 35.99
€ 30.39
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492248
- ISBN
- 9781611492248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.94
€ 123.94
Hardback. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, this book explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803245020
- ISBN
- 9780803245020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.68
€ 52.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801448263
- ISBN
- 9780801448263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41
€ 59.41
hardcover. An examination of the oral, graphic, and critical impulses in Native American creative representation that demonstrates a continued relationship between traditional Native systems of representation with contemporary Native literature Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803228498
- ISBN
- 9780803228498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.46
€ 49.46
Paperback. Examines Yeats's relationship with the warring discourses of British cultural imperialism and Irish nationalism during Ireland's transition from colony to partially independent nation. This work identifies the core features of Yeats's aesthetic program through readings of central poems and plays in the Yeats canon. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025830
- ISBN
- 9780268025830
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Editor(s): Cary, Richard. Series: Masterworks of Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780808401001
- ISBN
- 9780808401001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.22
€ 49.22
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540501
- ISBN
- 9780199540501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.90
€ 10.99
€ 9.90
Paperback. Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathematics by tracing its invention in prehistoric Antiquity, its development by the Greeks, and its transmission to modern Europe via the works of Euclid, Theon and Proclus. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 5 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; PB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 321.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 5
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400732148
- ISBN
- 9789400732148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.43
€ 150.43
Hardback. This work argues that literature can be defined, and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. It identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724524
- ISBN
- 9780804724524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.69
€ 146.69
Paperback. These essays examine the New World dreams in the American Columbiad. They focus on Native American, Caribbean, African-American, Jewish American and New Zealand texts that highlight the contrast between the reality of colonization and exploitation and its ideological framework. Series: International Cooper Series in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764350222
- ISBN
- 9783764350222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Hardcover. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036010
- ISBN
- 9780268036010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
Paperback. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036027
- ISBN
- 9780268036027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.59
€ 37.99
€ 35.59
Hardcover. Examines what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative tradition. This title has two closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time. Editor(s): Cairns, Douglas; Scodel, Ruth. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748680108
- ISBN
- 9780748680108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.51
€ 164.51