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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; HRQM2; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487750
ISBN
9780801487750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.33

Hardback. In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JNAM; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199683864
ISBN
9780199683864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.47

paperback. An exploration into the "strange science of writing" in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah E. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures S. 162 pages. An exploration into the "strange science of writing", in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231076593
ISBN
9780231076593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.47

Hardcover. Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho's study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660045
ISBN
9780674660045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.38

Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400426
ISBN
9781421400426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.85

Paperback. A collection of John Heath-Stubbs's major literary essays. The earliest essay was written in 1945, and each piece reveals the insights of a practitioner in the poetic genre. In engaging his chosen writers, Heath-Stubbs employs his understanding of the poetic process. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857543520
ISBN
9781857543520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; CFC; CFK; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Baraka Books Canada
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771860383
ISBN
9781771860383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894800
ISBN
9780801894800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.15

Paperback. This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; DSA; HBJD; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415604
ISBN
9781421415604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.54

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720748
ISBN
9780804720748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.80

Hardback. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 274 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270460
ISBN
9780823270460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.77

Paperback. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 274 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270477
ISBN
9780823270477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. In Situated Utterances Berger designs an analytical model of New Criticism, shows how it was dismantled after the Second World War, and demonstrates practice in studies of specific works. The scope of the practice is broadened to the connection between cultural representations and institutional change. Plato's dialogues are also covered. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 31. Weight in Grams: 767.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823224296
ISBN
9780823224296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.60

hardcover. In Situated Utterances Berger designs an analytical model of New Criticism, shows how it was dismantled after the Second World War, and demonstrates practice in studies of specific works. The scope of the practice is broadened to the connection between cultural representations and institutional change. Plato's dialogues are also covered. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 38. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823224289
ISBN
9780823224289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.67

Paperback. Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still chose to publish their work in handwritten form. This text considers the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to printed books and examines those that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts. Num Pages: 329 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSA; KNTR; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558491342
ISBN
9781558491342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674780286
ISBN
9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.30

paperback. Discusses developments in new historicism, containing essays on the emergence of the Third World as a signifier, the relationship of feminism and new historicism, and the loss of the category "class" in new historicism. This work should be of interest to students of literature and history. Editor(s): Veeser, Harold. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBA; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415900706
ISBN
9780415900706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.71

Paperback. Brings thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. This title argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. It forges links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and good manners on the other. Translator(s): Churchill, Larry R.; Brown, Jane K.; Brown, Marshall. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Translation
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985497
ISBN
9780295985497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

hardcover. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804749152
ISBN
9780804749152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.89

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
243
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816610372
ISBN
9780816610372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.14

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