Literary theory
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Literary theory
Paperback. A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers and in the social meaning of style. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; DSA; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674283992
- ISBN
- 9780674283992
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Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 135 x 4. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Publisher
- Thimble Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780903355230
- ISBN
- 9780903355230
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€ 9.20
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Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0021016
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
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€ 17.95
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Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001792
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280. Making Selves. 224 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight: 280.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485985
- ISBN
- 9780801485985
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
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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
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€ 35.99€ 30.53
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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
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
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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
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€ 13.99€ 11.64
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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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.55
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566393737
- ISBN
- 9781566393737
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
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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
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€ 117.84€ 89.24
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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
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Condition: New
€ 51.82
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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
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€ 197.35
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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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.13
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Hardback. In the 1990s, it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm. Here, the author shows that what the Germans bring to our understanding of the nineteenth century is a terrible awareness of the darkest moments of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191047
- ISBN
- 9781845191047
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€ 130.24
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Paperback. A collection of John Heath-Stubbs's major literary essays. The earliest essay was written in 1945, and each piece reveals the insights of a practitioner in the poetic genre. In engaging his chosen writers, Heath-Stubbs employs his understanding of the poetic process. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857543520
- ISBN
- 9781857543520
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163376
- ISBN
- 9780691163376
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Condition: New
€ 33.00€ 27.27
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Paperback. Series: Contradictions of Modernity S. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816629176
- ISBN
- 9780816629176
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
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Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; JFD; UD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Edition
- updated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262533485
- ISBN
- 9780262533485
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 23.82
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Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628922868
- ISBN
- 9781628922868
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€ 13.99€ 11.57
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Hardback. Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192495
- ISBN
- 9781845192495
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Condition: New
€ 127.85
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Paperback. Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192501
- ISBN
- 9781845192501
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.20
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Paperback. "This collection of essays by poet Pattiann Rogers written over twenty-five years, along with three interviews from the same period, lays out Rogers's vision of the essential unity and interdependence of science, spirituality, the arts, and the experience of the physical world"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595341334
- ISBN
- 9781595341334
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.57
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Paperback. This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299171247
- ISBN
- 9780299171247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24