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Literary theory

Paperback. This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823224166
ISBN
9780823224166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Hardback. IN Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 124 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422392
ISBN
9780857422392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796590
ISBN
9780804796590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609195
ISBN
9780691609195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637518
ISBN
9780691637518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.37

Paperback. How speculative realism impacts the art of literary criticism. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785353246
ISBN
9781785353246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.17

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

€ 92.06

Paperback. 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: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270064
ISBN
9780823270064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804727228
ISBN
9780804727228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Hardcover. Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745655604
ISBN
9780745655604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745655611
ISBN
9780745655611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.70

Paperback. At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work. Editor(s): Goldberg, Jonathan; Moon, Michael. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 240 pages, 37 color illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351580
ISBN
9780822351580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.65

Hardcover. This book offers a new perspective in the study of Comparative Literature and attempts to break through the linguistic barrier that keeps most comparatists in China enclosed within their own cultural domain. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642342769
ISBN
9783642342769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Hardback. In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JNAM; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199683864
ISBN
9780199683864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource and one with a history. Series: Critical Quarterly Book Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444333848
ISBN
9781444333848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.42

Hardback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816689248
ISBN
9780816689248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816689262
ISBN
9780816689262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.14

Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748676293
ISBN
9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.03

Paperback. Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. It also provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402354
ISBN
9781474402354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.31

Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415192095
ISBN
9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Grenville, Bruce. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20col.ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551521169
ISBN
9781551521169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.11

Paperback. This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 colour illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HRQX; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055614
ISBN
9780719055614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Offers a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism", the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property", and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Num Pages: 149 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 9. Weight in Grams: 279.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780803277861
ISBN
9780803277861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Little Toller Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908213471
ISBN
9781908213471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

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