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Literary theory
Paperback. Applying an eclectic theoretical framework, ranging from Raymond Williams to Anthony Giddens to Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida, this study illustrates why the male confessional novel is too complex a phenomenon to be solely interpreted in terms of retrosexism. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837611618
- ISBN
- 9783837611618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.14
€ 52.99
€ 37.14
The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991
Frye, Northrop. Ed(S): Adamson, Joseph; Wilso...
hardcover. his new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye's life. Editor(s): Adamson, Joseph; Wilson, Jean. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1140.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 625
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802039453
- ISBN
- 9780802039453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.34
€ 137.34
hardcover. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics & Communication. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099266
- ISBN
- 9780802099266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.91
€ 56.91
Hardback. A theoretical, historical, and critical inquiry, this book looks at the assumptions anthologies are predicated on, how they are put together, the treatment of the poems in them, and the effects their presentations have on their readers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742351
- ISBN
- 9780804742351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.67
€ 80.67
Paperback. A guide for those interested in understanding modern critical thought. It presents a synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. It includes a preface that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place in cultural theory. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415461511
- ISBN
- 9780415461511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.75
€ 40.99
€ 40.75
paperback. Challenging the dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Cotrupi explores the implications of his proposition that the history of criticism may be seen as having two main approaches?literature as "product" and literature as "process." Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 255.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802081414
- ISBN
- 9780802081414
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.47
€ 32.99
€ 30.47
paperback. Discusses developments in new historicism, containing essays on the emergence of the Third World as a signifier, the relationship of feminism and new historicism, and the loss of the category "class" in new historicism. This work should be of interest to students of literature and history. Editor(s): Veeser, Harold. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBA; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415900706
- ISBN
- 9780415900706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.11
€ 55.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 charts, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801454219
- ISBN
- 9780801454219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.01
€ 139.01
Hardcover. There is a preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. This book shows that it played a greater role than assumed - religion was central to practically everything Frye wrote. It focuses on the works with which Frye began and ended his career - "Fearful Symmetry" and, 50 years on, his two studies of the Bible and "The Double Vision". Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922997
- ISBN
- 9780813922997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 185 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536549
- ISBN
- 9781557536549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.25
€ 59.25
Paperback. "Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Marti-Pena." Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536907
- ISBN
- 9781557536907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.37
€ 61.37
Paperback. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813939230
- ISBN
- 9780813939230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.64
€ 47.64
hardcover. Babe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSA; GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 795.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 74th ed.
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802040985
- ISBN
- 9780802040985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.42
€ 109.42
Paperback. Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays that presents the best of recent critical theory on the history and future of the page and its enormous influence on Western thought and culture. Editor(s): Stoicheff, Peter; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 330 pages, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802085849
- ISBN
- 9780802085849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 43.63
€ 46.99
€ 43.63
paperback. Revisits the work and place of eight scholars contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism. This work considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. It also explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our theoretical debates. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802094759
- ISBN
- 9780802094759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.25
€ 42.99
€ 39.25
Rereading Frye: The Published and the Unpublished Works
Boyd, David V.; Salusinszky, Imre. Ed(S): Boy...
hardcover. This collection of essays begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of extraordinary, unpublished material contained in archives at the Victoria University Library, University of Toronto. Editor(s): Boyd, David V.; Salusinszky, Imre. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 74th ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802042521
- ISBN
- 9780802042521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.67
€ 68.67
hardcover. The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics brings together humanist critical traditions from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America and reveals the surprising extent to which, in various languages and academic systems, critics were posing similar questions and offering a gamut of similar responses. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092830
- ISBN
- 9780802092830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.80
€ 79.80
paperback. The papers throw light on the nature and history of the evolution of the atlas as a book, and also on the atlas as a 'text' of contemporary times. Editor(s): Winearls, Joan. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442615076
- ISBN
- 9781442615076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.43
€ 31.99
€ 29.43
By linking Frye's classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye's achievements in a fascinating new light. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643918
- ISBN
- 9781442643918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Editor(s): Gianquitto, Tina; Fisher, Lydia. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; GTC; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Univ of Georgia Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346755
- ISBN
- 9780820346755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.87
€ 46.87