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Literary theory

Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231183109
ISBN
9780231183109
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.14
€ 50.82

Hardback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559913
ISBN
9781137559913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.23

Paperback. Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501322853
ISBN
9781501322853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. aeo Offers an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world. aeo Illustrated with examples from around 100 different literary traditions, quoting texts in the original languages, fully translated and explained. Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631192435
ISBN
9780631192435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Hartman, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
478
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823224449
ISBN
9780823224449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.72

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635514
ISBN
9780691635514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.09

Paperback. What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? This book takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Translator(s): Dikbas, Nazim. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571326136
ISBN
9780571326136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Hardback. Explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400662
ISBN
9781421400662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.75
€ 71.79

Paperback. A collection of works that have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. It features works that include "Ion", "Poetics", "Art of Poetry", and "On the Sublime". Translator(s): Murray, Penelope; Dorsch, T. S. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, chronology. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446517
ISBN
9780140446517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349730469
ISBN
9781349730469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Paperback. Coming to prominence with the 19th-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. This volume offers a clear, reader-friendly guide to debates around realism. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415229395
ISBN
9780415229395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

Paperback. Literature and Feminism is an exemplary new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of the most important, but also most difficult, areas of contemporary literary studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631184218
ISBN
9780631184218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99

Hardback. Considers how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746632
ISBN
9780804746632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.67

Paperback. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E.; Jagose, Annamarie. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Publisher
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415564113
ISBN
9780415564113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.38

Paperback. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents with helpful introductory commentary. It includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir. Editor(s): Waugh, Patricia; Rice, Philip. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340761915
ISBN
9780340761915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 291.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Edition
1st ed. 1974
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349020003
ISBN
9781349020003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.10

Paperback. "This collection of essays by poet Pattiann Rogers written over twenty-five years, along with three interviews from the same period, lays out Rogers's vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and the experience of the physical world"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595341334
ISBN
9781595341334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226015170
ISBN
9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415765
ISBN
9781421415765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.37

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415834445
ISBN
9780415834445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

Paperback. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Num Pages: 327 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452. 327 pages, Ill. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight: 458.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
327
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231055277
ISBN
9780231055277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816622047
ISBN
9780816622047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300028454
ISBN
9780300028454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. What is literariness, or the poetic function, and why does literary theory need to answer this question? Series: The Open Yale Courses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300180831
ISBN
9780300180831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

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