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Literary theory

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

Hardback. Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. This title offers a study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. It adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408408
ISBN
9781421408408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.33
€ 54.16

Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411248
ISBN
9781421411248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.66
€ 75.66

Paperback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416984
ISBN
9781421416984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 34 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419848
ISBN
9781421419848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.19

Paperback. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
20th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421650
ISBN
9781421421650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.78

Hardback. Reflecting the profound impact of critical theory on the study of the humanities, this collection of original essays examines the texts and artifacts of the Anglo-Saxon period through key theoretical terms such as ethnicity' and gender'. It explores the interplay between critical theory and Anglo-Saxon studies. Editor(s): Stodnick, Jacqueline; Trilling, Renee R. Series: Critical Theory Handbooks. Num Pages: 334 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444330199
ISBN
9781444330199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.50

Paperback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always thereNhidden in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781509500659
ISBN
9781509500659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.70

Hardback. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502684
ISBN
9781509502684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502691
ISBN
9781509502691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Paperback. In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 2. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509513321
ISBN
9781509513321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

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

€ 129.51

Hardback. Sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape - breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191542
ISBN
9781845191542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.19

Hardcover. A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318436
ISBN
9781846318436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Hardback. Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy in illustrated covers with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004414
ISBN
9780230574656
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226096285
ISBN
9780226096285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.93
€ 78.49

Paperback. Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096292
ISBN
9780226096292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226251417
ISBN
9780226251417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.73

Paperback. Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert's own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226323824
ISBN
9780226323824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226396019
ISBN
9780226396019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

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