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Literary theory
paperback. The description or depiction of leisure activities has formed part of the subject matter of art and literature for a long time. This volume looks at funeral games in Homer, leisure as depicted in painting, and the part that literature played in promoting athleticism in public schools and Oxbridge. Editor(s): Mallett, Michael. Series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349113552
- ISBN
- 9781349113552
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Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 65.52
Hardcover. This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576520
- ISBN
- 9780230576520
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€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and ...
. Ed(S): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylo...
Paperback. "Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain through the optic of the twin concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349366392
- ISBN
- 9781349366392
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; DSB; DSG; JFCA; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219342
- ISBN
- 9780230219342
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Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
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
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Condition: New
€ 127.50€ 97.49
€ 127.50
€ 97.49
Hardcover. The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. Editor(s): Zamuner, Edoardo; Di Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina; Levy, D. K. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118842676
- ISBN
- 9781118842676
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Condition: New
€ 98.26
€ 98.26
Paperback. Takes an approach - 'New Historicism' drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. This book charts the evolution of that approach and provides an exploration of a contradictory epoch. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415771603
- ISBN
- 9780415771603
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.22
€ 24.99
€ 23.22
Paperback. In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Bronte sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontes and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform." Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321322
- ISBN
- 9781349321322
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
paperback. Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816631179
- ISBN
- 9780816631179
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.60
€ 29.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351305
- ISBN
- 9781349351305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403966322
- ISBN
- 9781403966322
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. "Late Postmodernism" identifies and describes the work of a new generation of innovative American novelists in relation to the contemporary institutions and ideologies of literature. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349529438
- ISBN
- 9781349529438
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451456
- ISBN
- 9781349451456
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
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
€ 58.49€ 50.37
€ 58.49
€ 50.37
Hardback. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; CFA; DSA; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403921659
- ISBN
- 9781403921659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; CFA; DSA; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349515462
- ISBN
- 9781349515462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801492044
- ISBN
- 9780801492044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723879
- ISBN
- 9780804723879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.96
€ 116.96
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631028
- ISBN
- 9780691631028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.81
€ 158.81
Paperback. Translator(s): Pinkus, Karen. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816649235
- ISBN
- 9780816649235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04