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Literary theory

Hardback. Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? This title answers these questions. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 240 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141831
ISBN
9780691141831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. In revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns to images of blackness in American literature and culture from 1622 to 1865, examining such texts as Swallow Barn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Typee, and Moby Dick. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSB; JFCX; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103367
ISBN
9780231103367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.97
€ 89.70

Paperback. Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants "between two worlds," this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany as the world at large turns to a new telling of time. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531097
ISBN
9781349531097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious. Editor(s): Fulton, Doveanna S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137282217
ISBN
9781137282217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Paperback. Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478224
ISBN
9781349478224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Paperback. Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory." Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349312559
ISBN
9781349312559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631028
ISBN
9780691631028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.81

Paperback. Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415007061
ISBN
9780415007061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415539388
ISBN
9780415539388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. This ground breaking study argues that literature and criminology share a common concern to understand modernity. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349282456
ISBN
9781349282456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403971296
ISBN
9781403971296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Paperback. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674808614
ISBN
9780674808614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of the past to construct stable gender ideals for the present. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284115
ISBN
9781349284115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.52

Hardback. Editor(s): Fletcher, Lisa. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137571410
ISBN
9781137571410
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.51

paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349468188
ISBN
9781349468188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.68

Hardback. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35, 35 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406169
ISBN
9781421406169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.02

Hardcover. The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies applies developments in cognitive science to a wide range of literary texts that span multiple historical periods and numerous national literary traditions. Editor(s): Zunshine, Lisa. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Num Pages: 680 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 183 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1288.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199978069
ISBN
9780199978069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 234.38

Paperback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887079
ISBN
9780801887079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.65

Hardback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887062
ISBN
9780801887062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1989
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349197569
ISBN
9781349197569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

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