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Paperback. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: CFK; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356. 242 pages. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: CFK; DSA; HP. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226468013
- ISBN
- 9780226468013
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€ 20.99€ 18.16
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Paperback. This clear introduction explains technical terms such as iambic pentameter and syllabics, defines verse metres such as blank and free verse and illustrates a variety of forms, from the sonnet to freer modes favoured by contemporary writers. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 212 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; GBC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415087971
- ISBN
- 9780415087971
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€ 26.99€ 26.72
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Paperback. Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise. Num Pages: 496 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035857
- ISBN
- 9780226035857
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€ 52.99€ 40.28
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415319690
- ISBN
- 9780415319690
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€ 34.99€ 33.91
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€ 33.91
Paperback. Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3488 x 32. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718226
- ISBN
- 9780804718226
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€ 40.99€ 39.99
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Paperback. Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty previously uncollected essays on literature and literary theory by one of the most important thinkers of the past thirty years. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781077
- ISBN
- 9780804781077
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€ 29.99€ 29.14
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Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803270442
- ISBN
- 9780803270442
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€ 42.99€ 42.68
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Paperback. Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. This title demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 344 pages, n/a bw photos, n/a color photos, n/a line drawings, n/a maps, n/a tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988931
- ISBN
- 9780295988931
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
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Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177443
- ISBN
- 9780231177443
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€ 64.68€ 50.14
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Hardback. * Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. * Offers an innovative way into understanding modern critical thought. * Spans the period from Marx to the present day. * A conversation of ideas emerges between one generation and the next. Editor(s): Milne, Drew. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220589
- ISBN
- 9780631220589
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€ 146.69
€ 146.69
Paperback. An anthology that presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. It offers a way into understanding modern critical thought. It covers the period from Marx onwards. Editor(s): Milne, Drew. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220596
- ISBN
- 9780631220596
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€ 55.07
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Paperback. 'Modern Criticism and Theory' has long been regarded as a necessary collection. This third edition provides students and the general reader with a wide-ranging survey of the landscape of modern theory and a critical assessment of the way we think - and live - in the world today. Num Pages: 866 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1472.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 864
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784543
- ISBN
- 9780582784543
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Condition: New
€ 80.60
€ 80.60
Paperback. Building a theory of the modern epic which has provided many of the "sacred texts" of Western literary culture, this work covers epics from "Faust" to "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The West's reception of these texts constitutes a ritual of self-absolution for centuries of colonialism. Translator(s): Hoare, Quintin. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859840696
- ISBN
- 9781859840696
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Condition: New
€ 26.96
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Paperback. This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153744
- ISBN
- 9781405153744
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.95
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Hardback. This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153751
- ISBN
- 9781405153751
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€ 115.44
€ 115.44
Paperback. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents with helpful introductory commentary. It includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir. Editor(s): Waugh, Patricia; Rice, Philip. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340761915
- ISBN
- 9780340761915
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.75
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Hardcover. Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. It offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and suffering, and new interpretation of "ethics" and "evil". Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692415
- ISBN
- 9780748692415
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Condition: New
€ 105.84€ 101.60
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€ 101.60
Paperback. Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192804419
- ISBN
- 9780192804419
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€ 11.99€ 10.77
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Hardcover. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230779
- ISBN
- 9780631230779
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Condition: New
€ 124.85
€ 124.85
Paperback. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230786
- ISBN
- 9780631230786
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Condition: New
€ 54.03
€ 54.03