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Literary theory
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Literary theory
Paperback. This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270064
- ISBN
- 9780823270064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 372 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480775
- ISBN
- 9780801480775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467846
- ISBN
- 9781349467846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardback. Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754569
- ISBN
- 9780804754569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.99
€ 144.99
Paperback. Explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature, starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett. This book also offers an overview of philosophical approaches to contemporary literature and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754576
- ISBN
- 9780804754576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033994
- ISBN
- 9781137033994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102675
- ISBN
- 9780230102675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from Transgression, Against Transgression poses an urgent question for the current generation of literary critics. . Series: Critical Quarterly Book Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405169899
- ISBN
- 9781405169899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Hardback. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408163
- ISBN
- 9781421408163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.29
€ 80.29
Hardcover. Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332967
- ISBN
- 9781137332967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490022
- ISBN
- 9781611490022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.72
€ 153.72
paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSA; HRH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349502318
- ISBN
- 9781349502318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.77
€ 65.77
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642741
- ISBN
- 9780691642741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.46
€ 157.46
Paperback. Offers a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism", the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property", and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Num Pages: 149 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 9. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803277861
- ISBN
- 9780803277861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Editor(s): Heath, Malcolm. Translator(s): Heath, Malcolm. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446364
- ISBN
- 9780140446364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 58.
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486295770
- ISBN
- 9780486295770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.16
€ 6.16
Paperback. This title situates itself in a region beyond criticism but this side of literature, characterized by forgetting and finitude, and investigating important yet seemingly inaccessible gray areas in texts as old as those of Homer, and as recent as those of Beckett. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735384
- ISBN
- 9780804735384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Hardcover. This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137530905
- ISBN
- 9781137530905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 237 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924091
- ISBN
- 9781628924091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.74
€ 16.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487967
- ISBN
- 9781349487967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691652405
- ISBN
- 9780691652405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.54
€ 145.54
Paperback. A comparative modernist study of the connections between Irish and Japanese literature, opening up uncharted avenues of cross-cultural exchange. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773546912
- ISBN
- 9780773546912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Paperback. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346790
- ISBN
- 9781349346790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349520404
- ISBN
- 9781349520404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01