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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635514
- ISBN
- 9780691635514
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Condition: New
€ 140.50
€ 140.50
Hardcover. Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty, 1988). Editor(s): Regier, Alexander; De Bolla, Peter; Uhlig, Stefan H. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549197
- ISBN
- 9780230549197
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. The authors are Amanda Bailey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA, and Mario DiGangi, Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, where he serves as Executive Officer of the PhD Program in English. Editor(s): Bailey, Amanda; DiGangi, Mario. Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Num Pages: 222 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137570741
- ISBN
- 9781137570741
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Condition: New
€ 160.85
€ 160.85
Paperback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JHBA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446100
- ISBN
- 9781349446100
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€ 137.79
€ 137.79
Hardcover. Offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. The author also draws on themes of ethical subjectivity in the work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze to provide essential reading for those involved in nineteenth-century literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194420
- ISBN
- 9781845194420
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Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Paperback. Documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s to now Editor(s): Napier, Winston. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1260.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814758106
- ISBN
- 9780814758106
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Hardcover. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112537
- ISBN
- 9780230112537
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Analyzing the trends and developments of African American historical fiction written by women in the twentieth century, Nunes' approach addresses the relationship between history and literature, reworking the historical record from the point of view of the silenced female and giving origin to an unprecedented narrative of the American experience. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363718
- ISBN
- 9781137363718
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349294497
- ISBN
- 9781349294497
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. Charts new directions in the study of African-language literatures generally, and isiZulu fiction in particular. Mhlambi proposes that African popular arts and culture models be considered as a logical solution to the debates and challenges informing discourses about expressive forms in African languages. Num Pages: 220 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 2H; CJB; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868145652
- ISBN
- 9781868145652
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349384952
- ISBN
- 9781349384952
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€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816629336
- ISBN
- 9780816629336
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€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones . Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349357
- ISBN
- 9781349349357
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804743495
- ISBN
- 9780804743495
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Condition: New
€ 171.40
€ 171.40
Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743501
- ISBN
- 9780804743501
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLC; 1KLS; DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816622498
- ISBN
- 9780816622498
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€ 25.99€ 24.33
€ 25.99
€ 24.33
Paperback. Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from Transgression, Against Transgression poses an urgent question for the current generation of literary critics. . Series: Critical Quarterly Book Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405169899
- ISBN
- 9781405169899
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Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
paperback. Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349472505
- ISBN
- 9781349472505
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Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Hardcover. Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362025
- ISBN
- 9781137362025
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916458164
- ISBN
- 9780916458164
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.75
€ 24.99
€ 21.75
Paperback. Talks about culture and comparison. This book inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. It argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731980
- ISBN
- 9780804731980
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300028454
- ISBN
- 9780300028454
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Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Hardback. With an investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792323129
- ISBN
- 9780792323129
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Condition: New
€ 251.83
€ 251.83
Paperback. Revealing the immense richness of the allegorical tradition, this book demonstrates how allegory works in literature and art, as well as everyday speech, sales pitches, and religious and political appeals. It shows how allegor expresses fundamental emotional and cognitive drives, and relates it to a wide variety of aesthetic devices. Num Pages: 472 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- With a New afterword by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151809
- ISBN
- 9780691151809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81