Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887062
- ISBN
- 9780801887062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.62
€ 79.62
Hardback. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh Editor(s): Felski, Rita. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887390
- ISBN
- 9780801887390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.95
€ 80.95
Paperback. This biography offers a sympathetic and nuanced view of Shelley's tumultuous life, personality, and poetry. Num Pages: 736 pages, 39, 39 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801888618
- ISBN
- 9780801888618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. The Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5, 1 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894527
- ISBN
- 9780801894527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.62
€ 84.62
Hardback. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. Num Pages: 424 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897115
- ISBN
- 9780801897115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.21
€ 86.21
Paperback / so. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802142054
- ISBN
- 9780802142054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.57
€ 17.99
€ 17.57
Hardback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 30. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804711661
- ISBN
- 9780804711661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.46
€ 112.46
Hardback. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. Important because it subverts the conventional understanding of what is literary or not, dialogue has ties to Platonism, the dialectic and imaginative fiction. Num Pages: 316 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714594
- ISBN
- 9780804714594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.29
€ 100.29
hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804714846
- ISBN
- 9780804714846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.35
€ 94.35
hardcover. To explore the early-eighteenth-century view of the 'sublime Milton', the author analyzes the work of five readers of Paradise Lost during the years 1701-34: Joseph Addison, the only writer of the five who attained any lasting fame; and John Dennis, by far the most important - and overlooked - of the early Miltonists. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804716321
- ISBN
- 9780804716321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.72
€ 88.72
hardcover. Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in principal texts of English Romanticism, this book argues that this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep social and political investment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804716499
- ISBN
- 9780804716499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Hardback. This text, examines the work of Italo Calvino concentrating mainly on his first novel. Situating his early work in its historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about realism of critics such as Lukics, Sartre and Brecht. Num Pages: 432 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 665.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716505
- ISBN
- 9780804716505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.09
€ 101.09
Hardback. The work of American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) aspired to be accessible and colloquial. Instead of looking to Europe for inspiration, as did some of his contemoraries, Frost aimed to develop an authentic voice, with the rhythms and vocabulary of everyday American speech. Num Pages: 380 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717410
- ISBN
- 9780804717410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.19
€ 95.19
Hardback. This is the first biography of Gertrude Atherton, one of the most famous, outspoken, and successful novelists of her time. It emphasizes her place in the emergent debate on the place of women in society and her friendships with such figures as Ambrose Bierce and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 428 pages, 40 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 38. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718202
- ISBN
- 9780804718202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.41
€ 139.41
Hardback. This text studies the work and methods of 18th-century Russian poet Vasilii Trediakovsky. This material is used to detect mythological patterns in accounts of the past - in this case 18th-century Russian literature - and to investigate the role of mythmaking in modern cultural consciousness. Num Pages: 332 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718240
- ISBN
- 9780804718240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.93
€ 105.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718257
- ISBN
- 9780804718257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.26
€ 100.26
Hardback. This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718318
- ISBN
- 9780804718318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardback. Critical studies of Turgenev have tended to focus on his realistic portrayals of nineteenth-century Russian life and have therefore closely allied Turgenev with the dominant literary movement of that time, Realism. This book reveals the non-Realist literary patterns that distinguish Turgenev's fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718738
- ISBN
- 9780804718738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.41
€ 94.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719469
- ISBN
- 9780804719469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52
€ 94.52
Hardback. Challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flourished along with the rise of the bourgeoisie. This book offers an account of the rise of the French novel. Num Pages: 412 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719995
- ISBN
- 9780804719995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.56
€ 106.56