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Paperback. Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This title prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates. Tracing his engagement with other key thinkers, it offers a clear picture of Barthes' work in-context. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, further reading. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415263627
ISBN
9780415263627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.71

Hardback. The works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth--century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745610078
ISBN
9780745610078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.69

Paperback. The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries. Editor(s): Stanivukovic, Goran V. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 311 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536252
ISBN
9781349536252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Paperback. English lit scholar Glenda Hudson examines Jane Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the dramatic social and historical changes in the late 18th century--and also analyzes the incest motif in numerous works of the period. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 207.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349218684
ISBN
9781349218684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.76

Hardback. Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509511846
ISBN
9781509511846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.02

Paperback. Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509511853
ISBN
9781509511853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.68

hardcover. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; 2ADT; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730211
ISBN
9780804730211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.08

Paperback. Translator(s): Hardt, Michael. Series: Theory Out of Bounds. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFC; JFF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
University Of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816622351
ISBN
9780816622351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.97

Paperback. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; 2ADT; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 209.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730228
ISBN
9780804730228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. Translator(s): Pinkus, Karen. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649235
ISBN
9780816649235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472572356
ISBN
9781472572356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312235987
ISBN
9780312235987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691639758
ISBN
9780691639758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 297 x 210. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st ed. 2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349420049
ISBN
9781349420049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 coloUr. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148. .
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837637045
ISBN
9783837637045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325658
ISBN
9781349325658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. Series: Walter Benjamin Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474251235
ISBN
9781474251235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 32.42

Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270442
ISBN
9780803270442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.41

Paperback. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E. Num Pages: 168 pages, 8. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222. 168 pages, 8 illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight: 92. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801495359
ISBN
9780801495359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Paperback. The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong. "A wonderfully trenchant and illuminating inquiry.-Virginia Quarterly Review. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566630979
ISBN
9781566630979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.25

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