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Paperback. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HBLA1; JFHC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422435
- ISBN
- 9781421422435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.43
€ 35.43
Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231063326
- ISBN
- 9780231063326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.39€ 83.75
€ 109.39
€ 83.75
Hardcover. O'Toole uncovers Hardy's fascination with the points of intersection between genealogy and fiction and argues that this relationship fuels much of his writing. This volume also revisits existing accounts of genealogical narrative and considers the presence in other nineteenth and twentieth century novels of motifs foregrounded in Hardy's work. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681633
- ISBN
- 9780333681633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946980
- ISBN
- 9781403946980
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Condition: New
€ 71.02
€ 71.02
hardcover. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946973
- ISBN
- 9781403946973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Paperback. Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics. Num Pages: 112 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631172710
- ISBN
- 9780631172710
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Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233602
- ISBN
- 9780631233602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 38.66
€ 38.99
€ 38.66
Paperback. We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199532179
- ISBN
- 9780199532179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300194135
- ISBN
- 9780300194135
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Paperback. The act of translation is a political action. This title draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; CFP; CJ; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520074514
- ISBN
- 9780520074514
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Num Pages: 132 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319403939
- ISBN
- 9783319403939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardback. Through formal analysis of subjection, address, and narration in canonical and penny literatures, this book reveals the mutual forces of concern and consumption that afflict objects of a weird cultural history of bloody London across the long 19th century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFFZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474424714
- ISBN
- 9781474424714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.02€ 103.50
€ 107.02
€ 103.50
Paperback. Argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity - as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation - and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. This title offers an original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154466
- ISBN
- 9780691154466
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.43
€ 30.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Demetriou, Tania. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486403
- ISBN
- 9781349486403
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Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231948
- ISBN
- 9780230231948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new the distinctly modern." Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459841
- ISBN
- 9781349459841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; CJBR; DSA; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081958
- ISBN
- 9780252081958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040481
- ISBN
- 9780252040481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Inthis textnine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287017
- ISBN
- 9781349287017
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. First published in 1920, this is T.S. Eliot's first collection of literary criticism. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, including "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "Hamlet and His Problems", and Eliot's thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson, Massinger and Dante. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571190898
- ISBN
- 9780571190898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403964328
- ISBN
- 9781403964328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSA; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465620
- ISBN
- 9781349465620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349416035
- ISBN
- 9781349416035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Paperback. An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349498611
- ISBN
- 9781349498611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89