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Literary theory

Hardback. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang s book offers a lucid introduction to Benjamin s theory of the media and its continuing relevance today. Series: Theory and Media. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745645209
ISBN
9780745645209
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816629336
ISBN
9780816629336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. This collection is based on the idea that irony now extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. The essays cover the limits to irony's liberating qualities as well as irony's more positive dimensions. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244235
ISBN
9780226244235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Oft-neglected Personalist writers of 1930s-40s comprise a missing link between modernist and postmodernist literatures. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120011
ISBN
9781772120011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

hardcover. This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain issues, such as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works, which have been largely ignored by post-structuralist literary critics. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812231274
ISBN
9780812231274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.75

Paperback. Offers an account of critical debates around the idea of performativity. This work also traces the history of the concept through the work of influential theorists. It examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415329262
ISBN
9780415329262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.75

Hardback. Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his writing has been a source of both provocation and enjoyment. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636092
ISBN
9780745636092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.38

Paperback. Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his writing has been a source of both provocation and enjoyment. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636108
ISBN
9780745636108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.54

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633367
ISBN
9780691633367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.85

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650197
ISBN
9780691650197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.87

Paperback. A study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. It takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? And, when is a metaphor successful? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition first Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845950934
ISBN
9781845950934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Jami; Colebrook, Claire. Series: Critical Life Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB; HPCF7; JFFR; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172158
ISBN
9780231172158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Jami; Colebrook, Claire. Series: Critical Life Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB; HPCF7; JFFR; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172141
ISBN
9780231172141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.84
€ 89.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH; JPA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816623082
ISBN
9780816623082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.14

Hardback. Argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions. Offering an overview of theory's directions, this collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism. Editor(s): Attridge, Derek; Elliott, Jane. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415484183
ISBN
9780415484183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.62

Paperback. Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 244. Reading and Writing in Time. 192 pages. Considers not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 26. Weight: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350811
ISBN
9780822350811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.38

Hardback. Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350637
ISBN
9780822350637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.08

Hardback. Editor(s): Harris, Jane Gary. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JM; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637679
ISBN
9780691637679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.46

Hardcover. This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed? Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380321
ISBN
9781781380321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.70

Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476594
ISBN
9780801476594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.22

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