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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Theoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to distinguish a work of contemporary criticism and what, exactly, does it mean? This book shows how the politics of sophistication pervades contemporary culture both in the mainstream and at the academic margins. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320166
- ISBN
- 9780822320166
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Paperback. Presents a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. This book shows how women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction. It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322719
- ISBN
- 9780822322719
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Paperback. The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the a historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. This book re-examines these two poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant. Editor(s): Finucci, Valeria. Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322955
- ISBN
- 9780822322955
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Paperback. Writing involves risks - the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, and the risk of inadvertently supporting a reader's prejudices. This title illuminates the process by which writers negotiate difficult path to free themselves from the ideological and contextual traps. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325208
- ISBN
- 9780822325208
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Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325994
- ISBN
- 9780822325994
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Paperback. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, the author evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale. Translator(s): Rolleston, James; Evers, Kai. Num Pages: 128 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326908
- ISBN
- 9780822326908
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Paperback. Suitable for those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth century history, this book analyses texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326977
- ISBN
- 9780822326977
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Paperback. An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics. It presents a range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; DuBois, Andrew. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330394
- ISBN
- 9780822330394
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Paperback. A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer. Editor(s): Norris, Andrew. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335375
- ISBN
- 9780822335375
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Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
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Paperback. Studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. This title shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342410
- ISBN
- 9780822342410
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Paperback. How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture. 312 pages, 28 illustrations. Assesses the popular literary culture that has developed in the United States. This book describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. It highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight: 442.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346067
- ISBN
- 9780822346067
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Paperback. Real Folks examines the construction of the folk in Depression-era U.S. politics and culture, as well as the hybrid forms of documentary and satire that critiqued the populist fixation on folk authenticity. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349440
- ISBN
- 9780822349440
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350392
- ISBN
- 9780822350392
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Hardback. Offers an account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as a whole, this book uses Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the "literary field." Translator(s): Doriott Anderson, Vanessa; Cohn, Dorrit. Num Pages: 672 pages, 5 tables, 4 graphs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1125.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351788
- ISBN
- 9780822351788
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Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352419
- ISBN
- 9780822352419
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Paperback. 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. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. The Making of the Modern Filipina. 320 pages, 14 photographs. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353164
- ISBN
- 9780822353164
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354321
- ISBN
- 9780822354321
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Paperback. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360926
- ISBN
- 9780822360926
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. Essays on theory's role in contemporary politics, reading and critiques of literature Editor(s): Farred, Grant; Hardt, Michael. Num Pages: 220 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822367383
- ISBN
- 9780822367383
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