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Hardback. 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 30. Weight in Grams: 719.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732949
ISBN
9780804732949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.03

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198186328
ISBN
9780198186328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 216.59
€ 133.62

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.61

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.07

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.12

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.55

Hardcover. The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system. Num Pages: 127 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391895
ISBN
9780230391895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.59

Hardcover. Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456496
ISBN
9781137456496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.75

Paperback. Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Here, Tally explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415664400
ISBN
9780415664400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

Hardcover. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137021878
ISBN
9781137021878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Paperback. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349437733
ISBN
9781349437733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234356
ISBN
9780823234356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234349
ISBN
9780823234349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.79

Hardback. In the 1990s, it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm. Here, the author shows that what the Germans bring to our understanding of the nineteenth century is a terrible awareness of the darkest moments of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191047
ISBN
9781845191047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.24

Paperback. First published in 1986 with a second edition in 1996, Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader constitutes one of the classic texts of second-into-third-wave feminist literary studies. Editor(s): Eagleton, Mary. Num Pages: 502 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405183130
ISBN
9781405183130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 44.69

Paperback. This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being aiming to be more specific than either. Editor(s): Bal, Mieke. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 47 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730679
ISBN
9780804730679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Paperback. In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 line drawings, 19 tables, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226482026
ISBN
9780226482026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319398587
ISBN
9783319398587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

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