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Literary theory

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Literary theory

Paperback. This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297481
ISBN
9781349297481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Hardcover. This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116849
ISBN
9780230116849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415192095
ISBN
9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Hardback. An investigation into the art of "Lit Ed-ing". Describing the qualities needed to run the literary pages of the broadsheets, this book recalls the work of literary editors and reviewers over the past 100 years. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857541496
ISBN
9781857541496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814735190
ISBN
9780814735190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. This book makes sense of the social, political, and conceptual consequences of the 2008 credit crisis by looking at the ways that our culture has sought to formally represent and politically respond to it. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JMG; DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 289 x 2. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799058
ISBN
9780804799058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Hardback. This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231066426
ISBN
9780231066426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 73.24

Hardback. A theoretical, historical, and critical inquiry, this book looks at the assumptions anthologies are predicated on, how they are put together, the treatment of the poems in them, and the effects their presentations have on their readers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742351
ISBN
9780804742351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801440014
ISBN
9780801440014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Paperback. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 443 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007
Number of pages
443
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048173433
ISBN
9789048173433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.54

Hardback. Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. This collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792364085
ISBN
9780792364085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.01

Hardback. With an investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792323129
ISBN
9780792323129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 251.83

Hardback. Discusses the relationship between human beings and time. This text examines the work of Proust and Kafka. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 443 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
443
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402053306
ISBN
9781402053306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312164348
ISBN
9780312164348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.86

Paperback. Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349464524
ISBN
9781349464524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.65

Paperback. This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years.Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century." Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349316854
ISBN
9781349316854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573093071
ISBN
9781573093071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.26

Paperback. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349410491
ISBN
9781349410491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138807181
ISBN
9781138807181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.09

Hardback. After recovering these lost chapters of our democratic past, Comic Democracies concludes with a draft for the future, using the old methods of comedy to envision a modern democracy rooted in the diversity, ingenuity, and power of popular art. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; HBJK; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Edition Unstated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419343
ISBN
9781421419343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.13
€ 47.68

Paperback. Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, this book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. It shows how allegor expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices. Num Pages: 472 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
With a New afterword by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151809
ISBN
9780691151809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality. Num Pages: 209 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137413031
ISBN
9781137413031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality. Num Pages: 209 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. 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
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349489770
ISBN
9781349489770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.58

Paperback. Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349465729
ISBN
9781349465729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

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