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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234806
ISBN
9780823234806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Examines the unstable dialectic of reality and imagination, as well as of history and literature Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780823234295
ISBN
9780823234295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.88

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233977
ISBN
9780823233977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 486 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233526
ISBN
9780823233526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Paperback. The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This title studies the Doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. It shows how the Doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232994
ISBN
9780823232994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.44

Paperback. Offers an original way of thinking literary history and a new approach to the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823232819
ISBN
9780823232819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780823231546
ISBN
9780823231546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. Highlights references to nineteenth-century US slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen. In this book, each text explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 437.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823231478
ISBN
9780823231478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.16

Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. This book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 483.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231355
ISBN
9780823231355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Paperback. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. This book includes two interlinked essays that proposes the notion of virtual traumato that describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects and relays. It examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion of war on terror. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231249
ISBN
9780823231249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. This book includes two interlinked essays that proposes the notion of virtual traumato that describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects and relays. It examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion of war on terror. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231232
ISBN
9780823231232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.34

Paperback. A posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 which offers a direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It also provides a resume of his political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today's world. Editor(s): Escobar, Enrique. Translator(s): Arnold, Helen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230945
ISBN
9780823230945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.54

Hardback. The metaphor of the Church as a 'body' has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. This book studies a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J F Powers to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr and Lucia Perillo. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230600
ISBN
9780823230600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Hardback. Tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of 'downturn' and 'break', and narration as 'recounting' in the senses suggested by the French term recit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 491.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230488
ISBN
9780823230488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.12

Hardback. Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229857
ISBN
9780823229857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.34

Paperback. "Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation."-Tom Cohen, University at Albany Num Pages: 283 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DS; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229208
ISBN
9780823229208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. "Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation."-Tom Cohen, University at Albany Editor(s): Bono, James J. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229192
ISBN
9780823229192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.67

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

Hardback. Conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. This work focuses on relations between Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", including the role of the narrator. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228478
ISBN
9780823228478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical legal studies. This title presents essays from Felman's oeuvre. Editor(s): Sun, Emily. Num Pages: 538 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823227136
ISBN
9780823227136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.43
€ 58.42

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