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Literary theory

Paperback. Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195126679
ISBN
9780195126679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.90

Hardcover. The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFC; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137519474
ISBN
9781137519474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

Paperback. Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557535030
ISBN
9781557535030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.82

paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2H; 3JM; DSA; DSBH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transcript Publishing Germany
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837636666
ISBN
9783837636666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Segol, Marla. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292295
ISBN
9781349292295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115774
ISBN
9780230115774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

paperback. This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.Gauthier focuses on the works ofDon DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka." Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349296828
ISBN
9781349296828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Editor(s): Joannou, Maroula. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349328581
ISBN
9781349328581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.33

Paperback. An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349330805
ISBN
9781349330805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Paperback. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, this book analyzes the ways in which British and American women poets such as H.D., Stevie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Ai, and Carol Ann Duffy often operate as cultural insiders, consuming music, movies, and magazines through poems that do not always conform to appropriation or critique. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137386212
ISBN
9781137386212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Paperback. Translator(s): Pluecker, John. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349289493
ISBN
9781349289493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297740
ISBN
9781349297740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial introduction. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195074857
ISBN
9780195074857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.39

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403972224
ISBN
9781403972224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349217885
ISBN
9781349217885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1997
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349399987
ISBN
9781349399987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.94

Paperback. A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison fiction, non-fiction, and other drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years." Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496075
ISBN
9781349496075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.22

Hardcover. This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230536951
ISBN
9780230536951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Paperback. The first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349420087
ISBN
9781349420087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 120. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501314872
ISBN
9781501314872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

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