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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. An examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270972
- ISBN
- 9780823270972
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Condition: New
€ 106.50
€ 106.50
The Entrapments of Form. Cruelty and Modern Literature.
Professor Of Literature Catherine (Bard Colle...
Paperback. This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269358
- ISBN
- 9780823269358
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Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardback. Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267965
- ISBN
- 9780823267965
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Condition: New
€ 99.46
€ 99.46
Hardback. Explores the theater's unprecedented focus on the contemporary city in early modern London. Examines plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to consider how this new, experimental theater created a medium for urban plurality, opening up a reflexive space within which diverse populations might begin to "practice" the city. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 b/w Illus. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267866
- ISBN
- 9780823267866
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Condition: New
€ 99.46
€ 99.46
Paperback. Explores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 b/w Illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267460
- ISBN
- 9780823267460
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardback. This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256822
- ISBN
- 9780823256822
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Condition: New
€ 99.61
€ 99.61
Hardback. Analyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances. Num Pages: 372 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND; DSBD; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251742
- ISBN
- 9780823251742
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Condition: New
€ 96.43
€ 96.43
Hardback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251711
- ISBN
- 9780823251711
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Condition: New
€ 85.09
€ 85.09
Hardback. Argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling are represented in the form of literal devices and plots Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249961
- ISBN
- 9780823249961
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Condition: New
€ 105.98
€ 105.98
Hardback. Argues that death is best conceived as always transcendentally beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor imminent Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242795
- ISBN
- 9780823242795
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Condition: New
€ 88.15
€ 88.15
Paperback. Examines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 284 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242603
- ISBN
- 9780823242603
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Condition: New
€ 42.50
€ 42.50
Hardback. Examines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 284 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242597
- ISBN
- 9780823242597
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Condition: New
€ 89.50
€ 89.50
Hardback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242542
- ISBN
- 9780823242542
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Condition: New
€ 88.32
€ 88.32
Hardback. The essays here speak from a conviction that torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain security Editor(s): Carlson, Julie A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 641.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242245
- ISBN
- 9780823242245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.46
€ 117.46
Hardback. Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823241941
- ISBN
- 9780823241941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.76
€ 99.76
Hardback. The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823240555
- ISBN
- 9780823240555
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Condition: New
€ 105.83
€ 105.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234349
- ISBN
- 9780823234349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.25
€ 156.25
Hardback. 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: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234288
- ISBN
- 9780823234288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.09
€ 134.09
Hardback. Editor(s): Pugliese, Stanislao G. Num Pages: 332 pages, 9 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823233588
- ISBN
- 9780823233588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.83
€ 105.83
Hardback. Investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans' 1941 collaboration. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232802
- ISBN
- 9780823232802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.33
€ 77.33
Hardback. Intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing that America's not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their own design. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232383
- ISBN
- 9780823232383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.73
€ 90.73
Hardback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231782
- ISBN
- 9780823231782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.13
€ 105.13
Hardback. The work of Mehmedalija 'Mak' Dizdar (1917-1971) is the cornerstone of modern Bosnian literature. His work blends influences from Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism, and the cultural remains of medieval Bosnia. This book focuses on Dizdar's collection "Stone Sleeper". It discusses Dizdar's mystically influenced poem "Blue River". Translator(s): Risaluddin, Saba. Series: Abrahamic Dialogues. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231683
- ISBN
- 9780823231683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardback. 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, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231539
- ISBN
- 9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.89
€ 104.89