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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Integrates archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. This book traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138459
ISBN
9780691138459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139845
ISBN
9780691139845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Hardback. Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. Num Pages: 608 pages, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1176.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141350
ISBN
9780691141350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback. Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141664
ISBN
9780691141664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143309
ISBN
9780691143309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTZ1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143323
ISBN
9780691143323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, the author argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. He highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145662
ISBN
9780691145662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. A work on the Whitman disciples - the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. It presents a colorful portrait of an era of intense religious, political, and sexual passions, focusing on why Whitman's work continues to appeal to so many. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146317
ISBN
9780691146317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.59

Paperback. What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? This title examines the role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146621
ISBN
9780691146621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.94

Paperback. An exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. It guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. It helps readers gain fresh perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman. Num Pages: 544 pages, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JH; 3JJ; AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148243
ISBN
9780691148243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148663
ISBN
9780691148663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
1032
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150437
ISBN
9780691150437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HPM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151588
ISBN
9780691151588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153162
ISBN
9780691153162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154152
ISBN
9780691154152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.64

Hardback. Editor(s): Fuss, Diana; Gleason, William A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. 1 line illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691157139
ISBN
9780691157139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.38

Paperback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; JMS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159539
ISBN
9780691159539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. Opens up readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. This book shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159744
ISBN
9780691159744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161808
ISBN
9780691161808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Originally published in Italian as La traccia del modello, 1984 by Giardini editori estampatori in pisa. Translator(s): Marchesi, Ilaria. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword and New After
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161815
ISBN
9780691161815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

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