Literary theory
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Literary theory
Hardback. The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. Editor(s): MacCannell, Juliet; Zakarin, Laura. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723060
- ISBN
- 9780804723060
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€ 161.14
€ 161.14
Hardback. Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts--classical, modernist, and contemporary--as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723169
- ISBN
- 9780804723169
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€ 184.14
€ 184.14
Hardback. This work investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography and its uses in criticism. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power and the relation of personification to landscape. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 396 pages, 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 28. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723787
- ISBN
- 9780804723787
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€ 183.60
€ 183.60
Hardback. These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy. Editor(s): Gelley, Alexander. Num Pages: 388 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724005
- ISBN
- 9780804724005
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€ 172.54
€ 172.54
Hardback. Using the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone, this book examines the political ramifications of the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724456
- ISBN
- 9780804724456
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€ 88.55
€ 88.55
Hardback. This work argues that literature can be defined, and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. It identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724524
- ISBN
- 9780804724524
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€ 149.51
€ 149.51
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725408
- ISBN
- 9780804725408
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€ 112.21
€ 112.21
Hardback. This volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming" Translator(s): Dutoit, Thomas. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 203.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725545
- ISBN
- 9780804725545
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€ 116.00
€ 116.00
Hardback. This work uses the approaching conclusion of the second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning temporal division and narrative continuity. It explores the ways in which the ending of centuries affects the creation and production of cultural texts. Editor(s): Newman, Robert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 702.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726498
- ISBN
- 9780804726498
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€ 112.81
€ 112.81
Hardback. This broad interdisciplinary and comparative study of the ways in which we discursively "make" the world and its things aims toward a pragmatic way of interpreting concrete social, cultural, and political experience. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727723
- ISBN
- 9780804727723
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€ 113.09
€ 113.09
Hardback. This book provides a historical context for racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the native writings of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727747
- ISBN
- 9780804727747
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€ 139.06
€ 139.06
Hardback. Rejecting traditional distinctions between philosophy, history, and literature, this book traces a broad connection between political identity and narrative in the field of political theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728188
- ISBN
- 9780804728188
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€ 150.15
€ 150.15
Hardback. This book traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728294
- ISBN
- 9780804728294
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€ 138.00
€ 138.00
Hardback. Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot, the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729345
- ISBN
- 9780804729345
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€ 150.48
€ 150.48
hardcover. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804729512
- ISBN
- 9780804729512
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Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732130
- ISBN
- 9780804732130
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Condition: New
€ 161.85
€ 161.85
Hardback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732437
- ISBN
- 9780804732437
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Condition: New
€ 251.91
€ 251.91
Hardback. This book uses a literary lens to examine the diverse practices, lore, and texts of opera-going in imperial Russia. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; AVGC9; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732475
- ISBN
- 9780804732475
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Condition: New
€ 94.84
€ 94.84
Hardback. Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732505
- ISBN
- 9780804732505
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Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Hardback. This volume offers a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 665.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732925
- ISBN
- 9780804732925
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Condition: New
€ 184.11
€ 184.11
Hardback. In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 719.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732949
- ISBN
- 9780804732949
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€ 184.14
€ 184.14
Hardback. Before Gertrude Stein became the 20th century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in a psychological laboratory and medical school in the US. This book unearths the turn-of-the-century scientific and philosophical worlds in which the young Stein was immersed. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733281
- ISBN
- 9780804733281
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Condition: New
€ 184.46
€ 184.46
Hardback. This study of models of action seeks to respond to the loss of faith in political action that seems to predominate in Western societies, to the sense that there is nothing we can do to change the course of events, or that political action is ultimately useless, without effect in a world governed by independent political and economic laws. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 459.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733304
- ISBN
- 9780804733304
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Condition: New
€ 88.69
€ 88.69
Hardback. "Downing's highly original, thorough, and rewarding book is certain to emerge as an indispensable critical reference-point for scholars and students in the area of narrative theory, problems of realism, and 19th-century German prose.. A nearly ideal combination of intellectual scope, erudition, and originality." --Thomas Pfau, Duke University Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 627.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736787
- ISBN
- 9780804736787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.83
€ 111.83