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Literary theory

Paperback. Explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature, starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett. This book also offers an overview of philosophical approaches to contemporary literature and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754576
ISBN
9780804754576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754569
ISBN
9780804754569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.99

Paperback. Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349351763
ISBN
9781349351763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Supplementing recent work on femininity, Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391833
ISBN
9780230391833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719067891
ISBN
9780719067891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.74

Paperback. 'Realism' is a term which is key to understanding, amongst other things: the novel genre, Victorian literature, modernism, and postmodernism. This study recognises that realism is every bit as complex as other modes of representation and requires a similar level of critique. Series Editor(s): Barry, Peter; McLeod, John. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719072215
ISBN
9780719072215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526121790
ISBN
9781526121790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.49

Paperback. A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an origin, because a beginning can be chosen and an origin can only be acknowledged Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847085993
ISBN
9781847085993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Folie, Sabine; Lafer, Ilse. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrated in colour and b&w. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Germany
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9783869841151
ISBN
9783869841151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.79

Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476594
ISBN
9780801476594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.95

Paperback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349462025
ISBN
9781349462025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSA; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785839
ISBN
9780804785839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785822
ISBN
9780804785822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

Paperback. This essay collection addresses how the Victorians looked to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority, often false, for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. Editor(s): Holloway, L. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530069
ISBN
9781349530069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Hardcover. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102675
ISBN
9780230102675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137033994
ISBN
9781137033994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about21st-century ideas of nature." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287093
ISBN
9781349287093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 213 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9783898219952
ISBN
9783898219952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349064069
ISBN
9781349064069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360636
ISBN
9780822360636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

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