Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Helps you understand the nexus between the literary world and contemporary communication (iPhone et al) in its different facets. Num Pages: 93 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 93
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193195
- ISBN
- 9781845193195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Hardcover. Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare. Num Pages: 249 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193294
- ISBN
- 9781845193294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. A book about reading women's poems, rather than forming theories about them. Beginning with Katherine Philips, the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to themselves. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193348
- ISBN
- 9781845193348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.78
€ 32.99
€ 29.78
Hardcover. What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies (the power view). Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193683
- ISBN
- 9781845193683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.51
€ 129.51
Hardcover. Contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', and the history of the relationships between 'sister arts'. This title offers a fresh perspective of traditional Western art form as reflected in the eyes of a Hebrew survivor of twentieth-century Holocaust atrocities. Num Pages: 197 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194505
- ISBN
- 9781845194505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.51
€ 129.51
Paperback. Fenollosa's long essay, "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry", was a ground-breaking, if idiosyncratic, poetic criticism, as well as a significant illustration of prevalent intellectual concerns. Flemming Olsen follows Fenollosa's theorising, showing the extent to which it is indebted to, and shaped by, post-Positivist tenets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194826
- ISBN
- 9781845194826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.28
€ 27.28
Hardcover. Offers an instrumental investigation of a theory of rhythmical performance of poetry, originally propounded speculatively in the author's "Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre" (1977). This title assumes that when the versification patterns and linguistic patterns conflict, they can be accommodated in a pattern of Rhythmical Performance. Num Pages: 460 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195243
- ISBN
- 9781845195243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195410
- ISBN
- 9781845195410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.90
€ 33.99
€ 30.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DD; DSB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196240
- ISBN
- 9781845196240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.25
€ 52.99
€ 47.25
Hardcover. "First published in 2015 in Great Britain by SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS" -- Verso title page. Num Pages: 160 pages, 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; APFB; DSBH; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196639
- ISBN
- 9781845196639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.51
€ 129.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196738
- ISBN
- 9781845196738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.31
€ 40.99
€ 36.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197100
- ISBN
- 9781845197100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.47
€ 31.99
€ 28.47
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197421
- ISBN
- 9781845197421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. Focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. This title explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this crisis, ranging from the death of John W Campbell Jr, to the start of the science magazine "Omni", and the first dreams of the internet. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846310034
- ISBN
- 9781846310034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.22
€ 45.22
Hardcover. A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318436
- ISBN
- 9781846318436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318610
- ISBN
- 9781846318610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.83
€ 44.99
€ 44.83
Hardcover. This important new work explores the symbolic geographies found within modern black fiction and identifies a significant set of relations between these geographies and communal affiliations, identity politics, and understandings of a diasporic past. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319549
- ISBN
- 9781846319549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.24
€ 47.24
Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319723
- ISBN
- 9781846319723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.12
€ 141.12
Hardcover. The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 262 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DSBH5; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319747
- ISBN
- 9781846319747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.46
€ 141.46
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846946684
- ISBN
- 9781846946684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.46
€ 20.99
€ 19.46