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Literary theory

Paperback. This collection is based on the idea that irony now extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. The essays cover the limits to irony's liberating qualities as well as irony's more positive dimensions. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244235
ISBN
9780226244235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Editor(s): Gibbons, Reginald. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprinted edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226290546
ISBN
9780226290546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. American historical writing has traditionally been a form of moral reflection. However this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social sciences. It describes the reasons for this change. Num Pages: 318 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; HBA; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Paperback Printing
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226316178
ISBN
9780226316178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. Betty Joseph offers an account of how archives - and the practice of archiving - shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226412030
ISBN
9780226412030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226424309
ISBN
9780226424309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. Includes essay on Botticelli that traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226431758
ISBN
9780226431758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.36

Paperback. The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226486833
ISBN
9780226486833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226498201
ISBN
9780226498201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226500850
ISBN
9780226500850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226511245
ISBN
9780226511245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226519722
ISBN
9780226519722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.45

Paperback. Examining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later transitional essays. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226721132
ISBN
9780226721132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226750279
ISBN
9780226750279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem. Num Pages: 306 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226763439
ISBN
9780226763439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. In his exhibition and accompanying essay for the "Taking Sides" programme at the Louvre, Jean Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 220 pages, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 298 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226771366
ISBN
9780226771366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 50.62

Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772240
ISBN
9780226772240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773872
ISBN
9780226773872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 454 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 227 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791401
ISBN
9780226791401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Hardcover. Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics". Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226875088
ISBN
9780226875088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 79.10

Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231063326
ISBN
9780231063326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.95
€ 83.22

Paperback. The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231063333
ISBN
9780231063333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Lennard J.; Mirabella, M. Bella. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JPFF; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Printing
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231065665
ISBN
9780231065665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.09
€ 98.01

Hardback. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231070867
ISBN
9780231070867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.90
€ 64.07

Hardback. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics. Editor(s): Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary. Num Pages: 362 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072427
ISBN
9780231072427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.82
€ 101.83

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