Literary theory
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Literary theory
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846317545
- ISBN
- 9781846317545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.70
€ 139.70
Paperback. Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major exploration and assessment of his writings in all these main areas. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620190
- ISBN
- 9780745620190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.80
€ 25.80
Hardback. This study of models of action seeks to respond to the loss of faith in political action that seems to predominate in Western societies, to the sense that there is nothing we can do to change the course of events, or that political action is ultimately useless, without effect in a world governed by independent political and economic laws. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733304
- ISBN
- 9780804733304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.73
€ 93.73
Paperback. * Asks what literary criticism should do in the post--theory era. * Articulates the case for a theoretically aware but textually centred literary studies. * Controversial in its privileging of texts over readings and in its insistence on the rehumanisation of literary studies. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631221685
- ISBN
- 9780631221685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.15
€ 47.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Mudimbe, V. Y. Num Pages: 490 pages, 1 graph, 1 table, 4 figures. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226545073
- ISBN
- 9780226545073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.59
€ 51.99
€ 40.59
Paperback. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature providing students, researchers and teachers of Modernism with a comprehensive documentary resource. Covering a wide range of intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940 in Britain, Europe and America the anthology brings together contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane A.; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1112.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748609734
- ISBN
- 9780748609734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.19
€ 40.99
€ 36.19
Paperback. This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299171247
- ISBN
- 9780299171247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 458 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551118970
- ISBN
- 9781551118970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.64€ 44.11
€ 54.64
€ 44.11
paperback. The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8Col.ill. BIC Classification: CFB; DSA; JFCX; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174. The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8Col.ill. BIC Classification: CFB; DSA; JFCX; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174. Very good clean copy showing light age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- W&N London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025142
- ISBN
- 9780753808788
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardback. Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and explores their fruitful conjunction. This book takes readers on a tour of Eco's own creative method. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 124 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058699
- ISBN
- 9780674058699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.58
€ 47.99
€ 39.58
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253208699
- ISBN
- 9780253208699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.82
€ 35.99
€ 32.82
Paperback. .". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics.". essential reading for anyone interesting in.. the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts." Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Edition
- Midland Book ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253203182
- ISBN
- 9780253203182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.90
€ 25.99
€ 23.90
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DST; 2ADF; 2ADT; DSA; DSBD; DSC; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632155
- ISBN
- 9780691632155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.38
€ 120.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801493713
- ISBN
- 9780801493713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Translator(s): Waters, Alyson. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9ill. BIC Classification: DSA; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816622986
- ISBN
- 9780816622986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.17
€ 35.99
€ 33.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823271108
- ISBN
- 9780823271108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Julia Kristeva is a theorist and has been acclaimed for her work in linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. This is an introduction to her work in English, containing a range of essays from all phases of her career. Editor(s): Moi, Toril. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631149316
- ISBN
- 9780631149316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.79
€ 30.79
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635293
- ISBN
- 9780691635293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 234.38
€ 234.38
Paperback. This is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida and his work in the humanities. Editor(s): Cohen, Tom. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521625654
- ISBN
- 9780521625654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.84
€ 41.99
€ 41.84
Paperback. Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. Editor(s): Wolfson, Susan J.; Brown, Marshall. Series: A Robert B. Heilman Book. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986487
- ISBN
- 9780295986487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
€ 33.99
€ 30.67
Paperback. These essays include discussions of the "Odyssey" and "Ulysses", the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarme's English and T.S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226074252
- ISBN
- 9780226074252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.37
€ 42.99
€ 33.37
Hardback. Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon (Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan), this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737111
- ISBN
- 9780804737111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.04
€ 195.04
Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727778
- ISBN
- 9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 41.51
€ 45.99
€ 41.51
hardcover. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804743495
- ISBN
- 9780804743495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.38
€ 173.38