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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Helen Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy's mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of "Italy" and its gifts-in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823226306
ISBN
9780823226306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.49

Hardback. The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225378
ISBN
9780823225378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.08

Hardback. Here, Mark Knight offers an analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223091
ISBN
9780823223091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.37

Paperback. Focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabs to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's death of Godhypothesis, the divine-human relation. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRAB; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823222018
ISBN
9780823222018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.11

Paperback. "An excellent consideration of the religious dimension of symbol in Coleridge's thought and its relation to English Romanticism."-Library Journal Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780823221134
ISBN
9780823221134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.32

Paperback. "Here is comfort for the faithful and rewarding reading for almost anyone, religiously inclined or not, interested in the examined life."-The Washington Times Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217335
ISBN
9780823217335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.86

Paperback. Offers a collection of five satires from the Reformation period, written between 1517 and 1526. This title focuses on the impact and importance of a supporting cast of satirists whose ad hoc productions reached a wider audience, in a more visceral manner, than the rational approach which typified scholarly theological arguments. Num Pages: 122 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DNF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC9; WHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
122
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823214839
ISBN
9780823214839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.17

Hardback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362838
ISBN
9780822362838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.49

Hardback. Love, H is an intimate selection of letters from a forty-year correspondence between writer Hettie Jones and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn, who both survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; BJ; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361466
ISBN
9780822361466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.01

Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354383
ISBN
9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Hardback. In Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353751
ISBN
9780822353751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.58

Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822353539
ISBN
9780822353539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Hardback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822353003
ISBN
9780822353003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.03

Hardback. Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350637
ISBN
9780822350637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.31

Hardback. Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldua s concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorist s life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350293
ISBN
9780822350293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.14

Hardback. Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350224
ISBN
9780822350224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349921
ISBN
9780822349921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.51

Paperback. Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822349549
ISBN
9780822349549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

paperback. An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison s move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348290
ISBN
9780822348290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.68

Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346524
ISBN
9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.81

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