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Literary theory

hardcover. An exploration of seminal French theoretical writings, approached as coherent philosophical fictions and bringing to light their contradictory social and pedagogical implications and their complex historicity. The study questions the role of intellectuals in the university and the modern world. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Edition
1989th Edition
SKU
V9780333443439
ISBN
9780333443439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.65

Paperback. This edition of Sturrock's work on structuralism includes an introduction from Jean-Michel Rabate, which makes some account of the book itself and then explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631232391
ISBN
9780631232391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.51

Hardcover. This edition of Sturrock's work on structuralism includes an introduction from Jean-Michel Rabate, which makes some account of the book itself and then explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631232384
ISBN
9780631232384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.51

Paperback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887079
ISBN
9780801887079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.14

Hardback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887062
ISBN
9780801887062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.27

Paperback. Explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness? Editor(s): Ryan, Marie-Laure; Thon, Jan-Noel. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 380 pages, 50 illustrations, 5 tables, 9 diagrams. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803245631
ISBN
9780803245631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Editor(s): Shaw, Jan; Kelly, Philippa; Semler, Dr. L. E. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137349941
ISBN
9781137349941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.69

Paperback. This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Editor(s): Shaw, J.; Kelly, P.; Semler, Dr. L. E. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; DSB; DSBB; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349468201
ISBN
9781349468201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Hardcover. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365286
ISBN
9781137365286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349473724
ISBN
9781349473724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ADF; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
No Edition Stated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631175124
ISBN
9780631175124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803244818
ISBN
9780803244818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349641512
ISBN
9781349641512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Martinez, Ronald L. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816620388
ISBN
9780816620388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226251417
ISBN
9780226251417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Editor(s): Loughnane, Rory; Semple, Edel. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349467884
ISBN
9781349467884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335169
ISBN
9781349335169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book offers a detailed account of Spinozaa s influence on various schools of present--day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, new historicism, and the unclassifiable writings of a thinker like Giles Deleuze. Num Pages: 330 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631175575
ISBN
9780631175575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.25

Paperback. Presents six short works from Bakhtin's "Esthetics of Creative Discourse". Translator(s): McGee, Vern W. Series: Slavic S. Num Pages: 203 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Number of pages
203
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
Second Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292775602
ISBN
9780292775602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 183 x 27. Weight in Grams: 980.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772893525
ISBN
9788772893525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.64
€ 53.08

Paperback. This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary work. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804742160
ISBN
9780804742160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Margaret; Prendergast, Christopher. Series: Cultural Politics S. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625215
ISBN
9780816625215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, whether it be literature, music, dance, films, or art. Editor(s): Richardson, Bill. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 2 diagrames. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137502896
ISBN
9781137502896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history. Here, Tally explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415664400
ISBN
9780415664400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

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