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Literary theory

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Literary theory

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

€ 51.03
€ 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

paperback. "Literature cultivates "deep selves" for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, while also developing a "new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature"-- Editor(s): Mousley, Andy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2011
SKU
V9781349315307
ISBN
9781349315307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardcover. Focusing insistently on the practice of rhetorical reading, this book demonstrates how self-undoing of tropological systems necessarily generates narratives which turn out to be allegories of their own conditions of impossibility. It contains two essays on Paul de Man and literary theory, and an interview on the topic of 'Deconstruction at Yale'. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748681228
ISBN
9780748681228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.81
€ 103.50

Paperback. Andrew Parker undertakes a critical reconsideration of the frequently absent, or troubled, figure of the mother in theorists including Marx, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352327
ISBN
9780822352327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF; JFC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349522507
ISBN
9781349522507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726979
ISBN
9780804726979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721172
ISBN
9780804721172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

paperback. This study offers a new view of literary theory as an essential part of modern philosophy and contests the view that it is a product of deconstruction. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415127639
ISBN
9780415127639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.48

Hardback. An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719074875
ISBN
9780719074875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.59

Hardback. In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748640539
ISBN
9780748640539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.48
€ 131.38

Paperback. In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Newly available in paperback. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 208 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. In developing his own conception of the 'figure', Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. Newly available in paperback. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFSR1. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight: 334.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643172
ISBN
9780748643172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Paperback. Applying an eclectic theoretical framework, ranging from Raymond Williams to Anthony Giddens to Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida, this study illustrates why the male confessional novel is too complex a phenomenon to be solely interpreted in terms of retrosexism. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837611618
ISBN
9783837611618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSA; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403941053
ISBN
9781403941053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience." Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPK; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349442256
ISBN
9781349442256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

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