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Literary theory
Paperback. A full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century. Bohn illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11ill.48figs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226063256
- ISBN
- 9780226063256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
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
€ 56.42
€ 56.42
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.
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- 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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.09
€ 152.09
The Fiction of Narrative. Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1...
White, Hayden V.. Ed(S): Doran, Robert
The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894794
- ISBN
- 9780801894794
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Condition: New
€ 77.27
€ 77.27
paperback. In critical practice, focus on themes is the hallmark of feminist, new historicist, ethnic and even deconstructionist approaches. Contributors to this volume offer the reader various ways of tackling what a piece of writing is about. The work itself arises from diverse intellectual traditions. Editor(s): Sollors, Werner. Series: Harvard English Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674766877
- ISBN
- 9780674766877
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Condition: New
€ 47.24
€ 47.24
Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226772240
- ISBN
- 9780226772240
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Condition: New
€ 41.08
€ 41.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226065557
- ISBN
- 9780226065557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6figs. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226065533
- ISBN
- 9780226065533
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Condition: New
€ 48.78
€ 48.78
Paperback. Argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. Returning ethics to its root sense, this work proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and listeners. Num Pages: 580 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 40. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520062108
- ISBN
- 9780520062108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.01
€ 52.01
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638256
- ISBN
- 9780691638256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.59
€ 150.59
Patterns in Language: An introduction to language and literary style: ...
Wareing, Shan; Thornborrow, Joanna
paperback. Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on recurring linguistic patterns used by writers. Series: Interface. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415140645
- ISBN
- 9780415140645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.96
€ 62.96
Hardcover. Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics". Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226875088
- ISBN
- 9780226875088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.79
€ 124.79
Paperback. A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. * Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe. Editor(s): Jost, Mr. Walter; Olmsted, Wendy. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 40. Weight in Grams: 970.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 522
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405149570
- ISBN
- 9781405149570
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Condition: New
€ 77.58
€ 77.58
hardcover. "Essays .. originally presented at a conference on Chinese literary criticism held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands in December 1970." Editor(s): Rickett, W. Allyn. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630748
- ISBN
- 9780691630748
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Condition: New
€ 140.02
€ 140.02
hardcover. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics & Communication. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099266
- ISBN
- 9780802099266
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Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789637326578
- ISBN
- 9789637326578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.70
€ 157.70
In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405175296
- ISBN
- 9781405175296
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Condition: New
€ 131.87
€ 131.87
Paperback. Modernism, Fashion and Women's Writing deliberately works against conventional notions of historical periodisation and challenges conceptions that pit modernist elitism against middlebrow consumerism as mutually defining opposites. It draws on material from writers personal and professional archives to tell the stories of five women novelists. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474427425
- ISBN
- 9781474427425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.18
€ 38.99
€ 36.18
Paperback. Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert's own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226323824
- ISBN
- 9780226323824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.97
€ 25.97
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846317545
- ISBN
- 9781846317545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.16
€ 176.16
Paperback. Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major exploration and assessment of his writings in all these main areas. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620190
- ISBN
- 9780745620190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.98
€ 29.98
Hardback. This study of models of action seeks to respond to the loss of faith in political action that seems to predominate in Western societies, to the sense that there is nothing we can do to change the course of events, or that political action is ultimately useless, without effect in a world governed by independent political and economic laws. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733304
- ISBN
- 9780804733304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.30
€ 89.30
Paperback. * Asks what literary criticism should do in the post--theory era. * Articulates the case for a theoretically aware but textually centred literary studies. * Controversial in its privileging of texts over readings and in its insistence on the rehumanisation of literary studies. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631221685
- ISBN
- 9780631221685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.30
€ 56.30