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Paperback. Contains the German text of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", with an English translation "en regard" by C.K. Ogden. Translator(s): Ogden, C. K. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415051866
ISBN
9780415051866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.78

Hardcover. The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. Editor(s): Zamuner, Edoardo; Di Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina; Levy, D. K. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118842676
ISBN
9781118842676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.51

Hardback. Through detailed readings of Montaigne, Schlegel, and Kafka, this book answers a challenge that has persisted in literary theory and literary history for almost two decades--how to historicize the concept of literature. Translator(s): Britto, Paulo. Num Pages: 356 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725408
ISBN
9780804725408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.21

hardcover. This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 577. This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 577.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0025249
ISBN
9780521810609
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.12

Paperback. The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226486833
ISBN
9780226486833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349451135
ISBN
9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.77

Hardback. Editor(s): Turner, Lynn (Emerson College); Sellbach, Undine; Broglio, Ron. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474418416
ISBN
9781474418416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.01
€ 197.27

Hardback. This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730259
ISBN
9780804730259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

Paperback. This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730266
ISBN
9780804730266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture. Editor(s): Groden, Michael; Kreiswirth, Martin; Szeman, Imre. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406398
ISBN
9781421406398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.84

Paperback. Sixteen essays exemplify the progress of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and publishing surrounding Canadian women's writing. Editor(s): Carriere, Marie; Demers, Patricia. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888646279
ISBN
9780888646279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.61

Paperback. Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present offers an authoritative overview of the development of Western literary theory and criticism. In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M.A.R. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405160353
ISBN
9781405160353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.37

Hardback. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198140597
ISBN
9780198140597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.50

Paperback. Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478286
ISBN
9781349478286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Paperback. Contains essays that reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) - known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky - as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. This work features four selections from "Voprosy literatury i estetiki", published in Moscow in 1975. Editor(s): Holquist, Michael. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series. Num Pages: 477 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Number of pages
477
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292715349
ISBN
9780292715349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Presents six short works from Bakhtin's "Esthetics of Creative Discourse". Translator(s): McGee, Vern W. Series: Slavic S. Num Pages: 203 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Number of pages
203
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
Second Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292775602
ISBN
9780292775602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195014716
ISBN
9780195014716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.85

Paperback. Dubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226167275
ISBN
9780226167275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Editor(s): Romanska, Magda; Ackerman, Alan. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: AN; ASZB; DSA; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 251 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 884.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474247894
ISBN
9781474247894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.52
€ 137.06

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823253111
ISBN
9780823253111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

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