Literary theory
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Literary theory
Paperback. In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298884
- ISBN
- 9781349298884
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Condition: New
€ 84.23
€ 84.23
Paperback. Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. This study explores reflexivity from different viewpoints, reviewing the rise of modernism and the production process in such films as "Rear Window" and "Tom Jones". Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 330 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231079457
- ISBN
- 9780231079457
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardcover. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231665
- ISBN
- 9780230231665
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Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312213664
- ISBN
- 9780312213664
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410883
- ISBN
- 9781421410883
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Condition: New
€ 73.12
€ 73.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349641512
- ISBN
- 9781349641512
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics. Editor(s): Keohane, Robert O. Series: New Directions in World Politics. Num Pages: 378 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 378
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231063494
- ISBN
- 9780231063494
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.07
€ 46.99
€ 41.07
Paperback. "The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Many people are familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet few people have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. This companion seeks to remedy this. Num Pages: 360 pages, chronology, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 1QDAP; DSA; DSBB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860649837
- ISBN
- 9781860649837
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 16.61
€ 25.99
€ 16.61
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198186328
- ISBN
- 9780198186328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.93€ 133.62
€ 214.93
€ 133.62
Paperback. This text explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, it provides contexts for Conrad's fictions and produces original readings of his work. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349353705
- ISBN
- 9781349353705
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Electronic book text. Editor(s): Baxter, Katherine Isobel; Hampson, Professor Robert, Fea Frsa (Royal Holloway College University of London). BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425575
- ISBN
- 9781474425575
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.85
€ 33.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732956
- ISBN
- 9780804732956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
hardcover. Babe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSA; GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 795.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 74th ed.
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802040985
- ISBN
- 9780802040985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.10
€ 106.10
Hardcover. There is a preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. This book shows that it played a greater role than assumed - religion was central to practically everything Frye wrote. It focuses on the works with which Frye began and ended his career - "Fearful Symmetry" and, 50 years on, his two studies of the Bible and "The Double Vision". Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922997
- ISBN
- 9780813922997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Paperback. Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life", "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker", earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humourists of his time. This is a collection of pieces, selected by his son Nathaniel. Num Pages: 346 pages, 48 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; WH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042183
- ISBN
- 9780226042183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Hardback. The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning. This book traces the ways that American novelists ranging from Melville, and Faulkner to Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy - have drawn on the resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own styles and visions of reality. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128818
- ISBN
- 9780691128818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.95
€ 29.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231175364
- ISBN
- 9780231175364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.56
€ 86.56
Hardback. This work uses the approaching conclusion of the second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning temporal division and narrative continuity. It explores the ways in which the ending of centuries affects the creation and production of cultural texts. Editor(s): Newman, Robert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726498
- ISBN
- 9780804726498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.21
€ 118.21
Paperback. A study of La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Lettre sur la comedie de L'Imposteur'. Editor(s): McBride, Robert. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Mike. Series: Durham Modern Languages Seires. Num Pages: 44 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 44
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085932
- ISBN
- 9780719085932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.40
€ 39.40
Paperback. Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551110868
- ISBN
- 9781551110868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.51
€ 55.51
Paperback. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research. Editor(s): Felski, Rita; Friedman, Susan Stanford. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409122
- ISBN
- 9781421409122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Hardcover. Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230389335
- ISBN
- 9780230389335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403942487
- ISBN
- 9781403942487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.99
€ 143.99
Hardback. This 25th anniversary reader brings together a group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship since 1980. Editor(s): Heath, Stephen; McCabe, Colin; MacCabe, Colin. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333763711
- ISBN
- 9780333763711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.23
€ 129.23