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Literary theory

Paperback. Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733366
ISBN
9780804733366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501307447
ISBN
9781501307447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804727228
ISBN
9780804727228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Paperback. The definitive collection of jazz fiction Editor(s): Feinstein, Sascha; Rife, David. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221377
ISBN
9780253221377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.16

Hardcover. An exploration of the possibilities of letting go of our inner desire for control. It provides a challenge and an alternative to 'masterful' or technical approaches to theory. It draws on the power of poetry and fiction to help us think and puts this to work in the book's own practice of creative critical writing. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748669974
ISBN
9780748669974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.21

Hardcover. Explores the relationship between touching and writing in contemporary literature. This title provides a timely intervention in the field, investigating the different ways that literary texts make contact with or 'touch' their readers. It explores literary touch in the work of often neglected contemporary thinkers and writers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748685318
ISBN
9780748685318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.99

Paperback. Written by a Principal Lecturer in English with over ten years' experience in teaching literary and cultural theory, Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction gives you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It outlines the basics in clear, jargon-free English, and provides added-value features like key ideas and memorable quotations. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473611924
ISBN
9781473611924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 343 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSA; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551110806
ISBN
9781551110806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.66

Hardback. Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how one of the most insistently anti-romantic discourses, post-Holocaust testimony, remains romantic, and proceeds to show how this insight compels a thorough rethinking of romanticism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755245
ISBN
9780804755245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ACG; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; HPN; JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488009
ISBN
9780801488009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. 224 pages. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight: 486.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748640850
ISBN
9780748640850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.51
€ 107.52

Hardback. This book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474418386
ISBN
9781474418386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.41

Paperback. This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405103183
ISBN
9781405103183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633510
ISBN
9780691633510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.08

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604374
ISBN
9780691604374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725613
ISBN
9780804725613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823224166
ISBN
9780823224166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Hardback. This book provides a historical context for racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the native writings of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727747
ISBN
9780804727747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.06

Paperback. This book provides a historical context for racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the native writings of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727754
ISBN
9780804727754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1990
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349207251
ISBN
9781349207251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFGR; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478475
ISBN
9780801478475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478451
ISBN
9780801478451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JF; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415538381
ISBN
9780415538381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Hardback. This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248175
ISBN
9780230248175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 34.67

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