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Literary theory

Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349921
ISBN
9780822349921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

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

€ 108.92

Hardback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360483
ISBN
9780822360483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardback. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360780
ISBN
9780822360780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

Hardback. Drawing on an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics to Tori Amos, Nick Salvato finds that embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness can paradoxically enable alternative modes of intellectual production. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360841
ISBN
9780822360841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Drawing on an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics to Tori Amos, Nick Salvato finds that embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness can paradoxically enable alternative modes of intellectual production. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360988
ISBN
9780822360988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it, showing how in 1989 the consolidation of the information age, the perpetual state of war, and the focus on humanitarianism transformed the novel into a form that addresses contemporary social, technological, and political upheavals. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361374
ISBN
9780822361374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Hardback. Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debate and reflect upon what literature is, can be, and do in variety of contexts ranging from Victorian literature and Chinese literary criticism to Sanskrit Poetics and Continental philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361541
ISBN
9780822361541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Paperback. Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives-debate and reflect upon what literature is, can be, and do in variety of contexts ranging from Victorian literature and Chinese literary criticism to Sanskrit Poetics and Continental philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 252 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362449
ISBN
9780822362449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical legal studies. This title presents essays from Felman's oeuvre. Editor(s): Sun, Emily. Num Pages: 538 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823227136
ISBN
9780823227136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.45
€ 58.90

Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228508
ISBN
9780823228508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Michael B. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 284 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267156
ISBN
9780823267156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.01

Hardback. This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270057
ISBN
9780823270057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Hardback. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 274 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270460
ISBN
9780823270460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270521
ISBN
9780823270521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

Hardback. This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; HPCF3; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272839
ISBN
9780823272839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Hardback. Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages, 61 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; GPFC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823272990
ISBN
9780823272990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.76

Hardback. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPM; JFSJ; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9780823273461
ISBN
9780823273461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Paperback. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPM; JFSJ; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273478
ISBN
9780823273478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823274017
ISBN
9780823274017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458164
ISBN
9780916458164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.75

Paperback. The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects of the field. Editor(s): Cayleff, Susan E.; Donadey, Anne; Scott, Bonnie Kime; Lara, Irene. Num Pages: 562 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
562
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118541128
ISBN
9781118541128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781405182942
ISBN
9781405182942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSK; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479884711
ISBN
9781479884711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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