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Literary theory

Paperback. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
323
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349665426
ISBN
9781349665426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. First published in 1920, this is T.S. Eliot's first collection of literary criticism. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, including "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "Hamlet and His Problems", and Eliot's thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson, Massinger and Dante. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571190898
ISBN
9780571190898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Hardback. Having returned to Russia in 1990 after two decades, the writer known as Abram Tertz creates a vivid picture of today's Russian intelligentsia and its role as conscience and critic since the fall of communism, as well as a chilling portrait of economic and political stagnation under Yeltsin. Translator(s): Visson, Lynn. Series: Harriman Lectures S. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; DSA; JFC; JFSC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107266
ISBN
9780231107266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.51
€ 51.90

Paperback. This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPQ; HR; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349482085
ISBN
9781349482085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

Hardcover. The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137353719
ISBN
9781137353719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.04

Paperback. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; JFC; JNKC; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349404018
ISBN
9781349404018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. "Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks"-- Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349326624
ISBN
9781349326624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. .". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics.". essential reading for anyone interesting in.. the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts." Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Edition
Midland Book ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253203182
ISBN
9780253203182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538829
ISBN
9781349538829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349522897
ISBN
9781349522897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Editor(s): Donner, Fred M. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSA; DSB; HBAH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640877
ISBN
9780691640877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.61

Paperback. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Num Pages: 327 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452. 327 pages, Ill. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight: 458.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
327
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231055277
ISBN
9780231055277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Paperback. Here, the author effects a rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by names including Moses Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 428 pages, 13 line diagrams 15 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739313
ISBN
9780804739313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349448326
ISBN
9781349448326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology. Editor(s): Reynolds, Bryan; Cefalu, Paul; Kuchar, Gary. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137351043
ISBN
9781137351043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.67

Paperback. This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology. Editor(s): Cefalu, Paul; Kuchar, Gary; Reynolds, B. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349468669
ISBN
9781349468669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature and the formation of English cultural identity. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349340019
ISBN
9781349340019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Contextualising the emergence of literary and aesthetic modernism and cultural nationalism within the popularity of the Renaissance, this volume offers new insights into high and low culture, as well as historical periodization. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608313
ISBN
9780230608313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403989925
ISBN
9781403989925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

paperback. This book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with the word deconstruction. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2006
SKU
V9781349542369
ISBN
9781349542369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.74

Hardback. Editor(s): Suleiman, Susan Rubin; Crosman, Inge. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643229
ISBN
9780691643229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Suleiman, Susan Rubin; Crosman, Inge. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691615844
ISBN
9780691615844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.29
€ 60.10

Hardback. This study of 10 novels by Dickens brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. The author offers an insight into an original and mythical idea of language. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333521267
ISBN
9780333521267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349218356
ISBN
9781349218356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.80

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