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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354383
ISBN
9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Hardback. In Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353751
ISBN
9780822353751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.77

Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822353539
ISBN
9780822353539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Hardback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822353003
ISBN
9780822353003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Hardback. Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350637
ISBN
9780822350637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Hardback. Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldua s concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorist s life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350293
ISBN
9780822350293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.90

Hardback. Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350224
ISBN
9780822350224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349921
ISBN
9780822349921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.30

Paperback. Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822349549
ISBN
9780822349549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

paperback. An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison s move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348290
ISBN
9780822348290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.63

Paperback. This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347774
ISBN
9780822347774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.23

Hardback. Leading cultural and political theorists argue that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and environment. Editor(s): Coole, Diana H.; Frost, Samantha. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5983 x 3971. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347538
ISBN
9780822347538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.23

Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346524
ISBN
9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780822346449
ISBN
9780822346449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. The first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature. Editor(s): Hartley, Lauran R.; Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia. Num Pages: 424 pages, 31 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GDT; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342779
ISBN
9780822342779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 31. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341598
ISBN
9780822341598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340355
ISBN
9780822340355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338970
ISBN
9780822338970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.18

Paperback. This collection is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwanese literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. Editor(s): Wang, David Der-Wei; Rojas, Carlos. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338673
ISBN
9780822338673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.45

Paperback. A theoretical exploration of the connected roles of area studies, poststructuralist theory, and comparative literature in constructing the world as a target for U.S. imperialism Series: Next Wave: Provocations. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822337447
ISBN
9780822337447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

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