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Literary studies: general

paperback. This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2nd ed. 1995
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333639269
ISBN
9780333639269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.13

Paperback. This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 118 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780936756677
ISBN
9780936756677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062394620
ISBN
9780062394620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.04

Hardcover. This text investigates a transitional moment in the history of US women's writing - the uneasy shift from the 19th century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. It shows how the complexities of literary and social politics shaped the world of Wharton, Cather, and Gale. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312229214
ISBN
9780312229214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Highlights references to nineteenth-century US slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen. In this book, each text explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 437.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823231478
ISBN
9780823231478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.35

hardcover. This collection presents the best of George Bernard Shaw's witticisms and other turns-of-phrase. It surveys Shaw's passion for politics, the arts, and life in general. Editor(s): Dukore, Bernard F. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB; DQ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
New
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104784
ISBN
9780231104784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.94

Hardback. Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language. Translator(s): Brault, Pascale-Anne. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269501
ISBN
9780823269501
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.07

Paperback. Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language. Translator(s): Brault, Pascale-Anne. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269518
ISBN
9780823269518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.10

Hardcover. Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. This book traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925981
ISBN
9780813925981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.06

Paperback. This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time. Editor(s): Denham, Robert D. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 37. Weight in Grams: 992.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626867
ISBN
9781442626867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.65

hardcover. These miscellaneous writings offer further evidence of Frye's fertile mind, quick wit, expansive imagination, and eloquence. Editor(s): Denham, Robert D.; Dolzani, Michael. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802093028
ISBN
9780802093028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

hardcover. Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism. Editor(s): Gorjup, Branko. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099389
ISBN
9780802099389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647695
ISBN
9781442647695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Hardback. Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137330383
ISBN
9781137330383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.55

Hardcover. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137343833
ISBN
9781137343833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.37

Paperback. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HRA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349465880
ISBN
9781349465880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

Hardcover. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137271716
ISBN
9781137271716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349444632
ISBN
9781349444632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.04

Hardback. Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space explores why houses, in some ways the most private of spaces, have taken up such visibly public positions in the work of a range of prominent poets from Northern Ireland, examining the work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Medbh McGuckian. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137493699
ISBN
9781137493699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Hardcover. Northern Irish Literature, 1975-2006 and its companion volume, Northern Irish Literature 1956-75, examine the contexts for literary production over the past fifty years, addressing the troubled intersections of literature, history and politics. These volumes explore the diversity that is Northern Irish literature. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230553057
ISBN
9780230553057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.56

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