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Literary theory

Paperback. A study of literary stylistics using pragmatic theories. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748620418
ISBN
9780748620418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Hardback. The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823240555
ISBN
9780823240555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.88

Paperback. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740722
ISBN
9780804740722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740715
ISBN
9780804740715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

Paperback. The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823240562
ISBN
9780823240562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.63

Paperback. This volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence. Editor(s): Sama, Catherine M. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226817682
ISBN
9780226817682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. This attention to the negative or minor category has implications that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory, film, American studies, anthropology, and architecture. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405896
ISBN
9781421405896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09
€ 59.06

Paperback. The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349331581
ISBN
9781349331581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230290785
ISBN
9780230290785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349474530
ISBN
9781349474530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Interpreting or expanding on Tillie Olsen's "Silences", a group of distinguished feminist critics explores the subject of silence and silencing in literature and criticism. They interpret a debate which includes aspects of feminism, multiculturalism and literature. Editor(s): Hedges, Elaine; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 477.
Publisher
New York
Edition
Trade (softback)
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195073072
ISBN
9780195073072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350016804
ISBN
9781350016804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an origin, because a beginning can be chosen and an origin can only be acknowledged Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847085993
ISBN
9781847085993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114197
ISBN
9780230114197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816638925
ISBN
9780816638925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816638918
ISBN
9780816638918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.51

Paperback. We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; DSA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349437818
ISBN
9781349437818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.32

Paperback. Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings. Num Pages: 208 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: AJ; DSA; DSBH; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691002682
ISBN
9780691002682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403990679
ISBN
9781403990679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Paperback. Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349494989
ISBN
9781349494989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPJ; 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646534
ISBN
9780691646534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.93

Paperback. Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading Marxism, literature, theory, and the social possibilities of writing. Editor(s): Eagleton, Terry; Milne, Drew. Num Pages: 456 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631185819
ISBN
9780631185819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.71

Hardback. Editor(s): Zivin, Erin Graff. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2007th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403984968
ISBN
9781403984968
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.96
€ 49.03

Paperback. The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349473700
ISBN
9781349473700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.65

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