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Literary theory

Paperback. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Series Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748655090
ISBN
9780748655090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 24 color illus. 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSA; DSB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 209 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173382
ISBN
9780691173382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.20

hardcover. This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804795708
ISBN
9780804795708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694419
ISBN
9780816694419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.70

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694396
ISBN
9780816694396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.84

Paperback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796590
ISBN
9780804796590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; DSK; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631530
ISBN
9780691631530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280. Making Selves. 224 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight: 280.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801485985
ISBN
9780801485985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.99

Hardback. This work argues that literature can be defined, and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. It identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724524
ISBN
9780804724524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.65

Paperback. What is literariness, or the poetic function, and why does literary theory need to answer this question? Series: The Open Yale Courses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300180831
ISBN
9780300180831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300028454
ISBN
9780300028454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.51

Paperback. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Num Pages: 327 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452. 327 pages, Ill. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight: 458.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
327
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231055277
ISBN
9780231055277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415834445
ISBN
9780415834445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

Paperback. The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626980
ISBN
9781442626980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.97

Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415765
ISBN
9781421415765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. "This collection of essays by poet Pattiann Rogers written over twenty-five years, along with three interviews from the same period, lays out Rogers's vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and the experience of the physical world"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595341334
ISBN
9781595341334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E.; Jagose, Annamarie. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Publisher
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415564113
ISBN
9780415564113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.03

Hardback. Considers how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746632
ISBN
9780804746632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.50

Paperback. Coming to prominence with the 19th-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. This volume offers a clear, reader-friendly guide to debates around realism. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415229395
ISBN
9780415229395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

Paperback. A collection of works that have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. It features works that include "Ion", "Poetics", "Art of Poetry", and "On the Sublime". Translator(s): Murray, Penelope; Dorsch, T. S. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, chronology. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446517
ISBN
9780140446517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.82

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