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Literary theory

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415290104
ISBN
9780415290104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137585257
ISBN
9781137585257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.75

Hardcover. Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho's study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660045
ISBN
9780674660045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344. Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. 242 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight: 296.
Publisher
The University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468129
ISBN
9780226468129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. First published in 1920, this is T.S. Eliot's first collection of literary criticism. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, including "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "Hamlet and His Problems", and Eliot's thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson, Massinger and Dante. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571190898
ISBN
9780571190898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.53

Paperback. Can we truly claim that metaphysics is over? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity and a careful elaboration of Levinas's concept of the "nocturnal event" that surpasses the light of understanding, Raoul Moati opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics." Translator(s): Wyche, Daniel. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPJ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 278 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273201
ISBN
9780823273201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Michael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 248 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415280082
ISBN
9780415280082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.91

Paperback. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
25 ANV
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195136470
ISBN
9780195136470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415707985
ISBN
9780415707985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.37

Hardback. Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278998
ISBN
9780230278998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.03

Paperback. Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195126679
ISBN
9780195126679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.53

Paperback. Series: Border Hispanisms. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 265 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477307298
ISBN
9781477307298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Series: The Basics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415538077
ISBN
9780415538077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.35

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415834445
ISBN
9780415834445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Building upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 17. Weight in Grams: 369.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823227709
ISBN
9780823227709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique evaluate literary critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations while assessing the merits of the post-critical turn and exploring a range of alternate methods of literary criticism that may be better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present. Editor(s): Anker, Elizabeth S.; Felski, Rita. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363767
ISBN
9780822363767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Roudiez, Leon S.; Jardine, Alice A. Translator(s): Gora, Thomas. Num Pages: 305 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
305
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231048071
ISBN
9780231048071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.18

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

Paperback. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E. Num Pages: 168 pages, 8. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222. 168 pages, 8 illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight: 92. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801495359
ISBN
9780801495359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Master Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
Edition
2003rd Edition
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403900777
ISBN
9781403900777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.68

Hardback. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26, 18 black & white halftones, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 266 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420943
ISBN
9781421420943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.23

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 587 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
587
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816615865
ISBN
9780816615865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

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