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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays. Editor(s): Newman, Kathleen M.; Pratt, Mary Louise. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 925.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322481
ISBN
9780822322481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.05

Paperback. Covers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad. Editor(s): Brown, Marshall. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822322672
ISBN
9780822322672
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Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322962
ISBN
9780822322962
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Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822323150
ISBN
9780822323150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323402
ISBN
9780822323402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323457
ISBN
9780822323457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324157
ISBN
9780822324157
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

paperback. Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324904
ISBN
9780822324904
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Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, this book presents an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 2 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324997
ISBN
9780822324997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325628
ISBN
9780822325628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325680
ISBN
9780822325680
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Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. A collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora. Editor(s): Chow, Rey. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325970
ISBN
9780822325970
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Offers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326205
ISBN
9780822326205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326694
ISBN
9780822326694
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Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327639
ISBN
9780822327639
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. Addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the post-dictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neo-liberal market-driven economies. This work is suitable for Latin Americanists, literary and political theorists and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalisation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; 3JJP; A; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JHM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822328186
ISBN
9780822328186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered in unexamined ways in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere. Editor(s): Davidson, Cathy N.; Hatcher, Jessamyn. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328933
ISBN
9780822328933
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Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the centre of the Harlem Renaissance. This title provides biographical information about Nugent's life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents that influenced him. Illustrator(s): Nugent, Richard Bruce. Editor(s): Wirth, Thomas H. Num Pages: 312 pages, 78 illustrations, including 16-pages in color. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AGB; DQ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329138
ISBN
9780822329138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. After first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
First Paperback Edition
SKU
V9780822329169
ISBN
9780822329169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329749
ISBN
9780822329749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329954
ISBN
9780822329954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

paperback. An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research. This book represents various disciplines, including mathematics, sociology, psychology, literature, religion and legal history. It also chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism. Editor(s): Freedman, Diane P.; Frey, Olivia. Num Pages: 512 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332138
ISBN
9780822332138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.15

Paperback. Reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts (794-1192). This book argues that by foregrounding women's voices in Heian literature, the discipline has repeatedly enacted the modernizing gesture in which the 'feminine' is recognized, and canceled. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332374
ISBN
9780822332374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332404
ISBN
9780822332404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

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