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Literary theory

Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415765
ISBN
9781421415765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.00
€ 30.53

Paperback. A study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. It takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? And, when is a metaphor successful? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition first Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845950934
ISBN
9781845950934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 209 x 16. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628924732
ISBN
9781628924732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349464685
ISBN
9781349464685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Paperback. Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This introductory guidebook is ideal for all students working in the fields of literary, cultural and postcolonial theory. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415328241
ISBN
9780415328241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.55

Paperback. Examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, this book explores the continuity found among Chicanas' writing across varied genres. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSA; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566393737
ISBN
9781566393737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma." Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326150
ISBN
9781349326150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588140166
ISBN
9781588140166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.97
€ 89.24

Paperback. Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557535030
ISBN
9781557535030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSA; DSB; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 555.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137518316
ISBN
9781137518316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.77

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648675
ISBN
9780691648675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Dew, B.; Price, F. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461806
ISBN
9781349461806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Hardcover. Editor(s): Perez Rosario, Vanessa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620650
ISBN
9780230620650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

paperback. Editor(s): Perez Rosario, Vanessa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; GTB; JFC; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349382910
ISBN
9781349382910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816614042
ISBN
9780816614042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Loades, Ann; McLain, Michael. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPK; HRA; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 279.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349219889
ISBN
9781349219889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 192.94

hardcover. These essays deal with philosophical accounts of interpretation, the interpretation of scripture (with particular reference to the work of the Oxford theologian and philosopher Austin Farrer), and provide some examples of interpretative practice relating to Genesis and the book of Psalms. Editor(s): Loades, Ann; McLain, Michael. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Edition
1992nd Edition
SKU
V9780333539590
ISBN
9780333539590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.87

Hardback. A study of contemporary post-structuralist and socio-semiotic theories of narrative, this book looks at a model for literary interpretation and pedagogy. Focusing on readings of Henry James, it examines the process, critical self-awareness and the strategies of re-reading and re-writing. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333514740
ISBN
9780333514740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 217.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1989
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349204212
ISBN
9781349204212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137594471
ISBN
9781137594471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31

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