Literary theory
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Literary theory
Hardback. " Promoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10, 6 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416885
- ISBN
- 9781421416885
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Condition: New
€ 62.44
€ 62.44
Hardback. Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055438
- ISBN
- 9780674055438
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€ 46.99€ 38.48
€ 46.99
€ 38.48
Paperback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743464
- ISBN
- 9780804743464
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€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743457
- ISBN
- 9780804743457
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€ 139.59
€ 139.59
Hardback. These essays offer not only "representations of Swift" but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the 20th century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 627.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137972
- ISBN
- 9780874137972
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Condition: New
€ 137.50
€ 137.50
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. This title explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Num Pages: 560 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057111
- ISBN
- 9780674057111
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.72
€ 31.99
€ 26.72
Paperback. "Waste "explores the question: from nuclear waste to digital detritus, what can we learn about ourselves from what we let go to waste? Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 152 pages, 20 b/w images. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924367
- ISBN
- 9781628924367
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Condition: New
€ 11.58
€ 11.58
Paperback. Combining anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, this book examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century onwards. It raises important issues that are of comparative significance for understanding political life in other Muslim and nonwestern states as well. Series: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies. Num Pages: 324 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HRH; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205154
- ISBN
- 9780520205154
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. The world Thomas conjures up in this groundbreaking new study is one in which successful remedies to racial wrongs remain to be imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSA; HBJK; HBLL; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 2. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421322
- ISBN
- 9781421421322
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.66
€ 45.99
€ 37.66
Hardback. In 18 essays, Brooke Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. These writers embody in their very different ways the various attitudes of their contentious century. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635202
- ISBN
- 9781566635202
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Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Grenville, Bruce. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20col.ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551521169
- ISBN
- 9781551521169
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.47
€ 30.99
€ 28.47
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816691029
- ISBN
- 9780816691029
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.52
€ 31.99
€ 28.52
Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228508
- ISBN
- 9780823228508
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Condition: New
€ 105.59
€ 105.59
Paperback. Explains that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. This title demonstrates that truth and partisanship are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Editor(s): Budgen, Sebastian; Kouvelakis, Stathis; Zizek, Slavoj. Translator(s): Fernbach, David. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 268 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339410
- ISBN
- 9780822339410
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardcover. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity. This book considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history. It offers an assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy. Editor(s): Bushnell, Rebecca W. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 188 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1226.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405107358
- ISBN
- 9781405107358
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Condition: New
€ 204.96
€ 204.96
Paperback. This book offers itself as a guide both to the wealth of reading texts available for use in counselling, and to ways of reading that extend the reader-listener's engagement with fiction and poetry. Ben Knights argues that reflective reading requires us to work at both analytical and empathic levels. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JKSN2; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 310 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853022661
- ISBN
- 9781853022661
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Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- The Authors' Club
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781527201682
- ISBN
- 9781527201682
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Condition: New
€ 23.00€ 18.21
€ 23.00
€ 18.21
Hardback. Editor(s): Becker, Howard Saul. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635903
- ISBN
- 9780691635903
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Condition: New
€ 114.10
€ 114.10
Paperback. Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745655611
- ISBN
- 9780745655611
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Condition: New
€ 22.08
€ 22.08
Hardcover. Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745655604
- ISBN
- 9780745655604
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Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Paperback. This collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics and aesthetics. Editor(s): Jacobs, Carol; Sussman, Henry. Num Pages: 296 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746519
- ISBN
- 9780804746519
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€ 40.99€ 38.82
€ 40.99
€ 38.82
paperback. Skirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757904
- ISBN
- 9780804757904
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Condition: New
€ 28.07
€ 28.07
Hardback. This collection brings together essays that reflect on the nature of narrative, literary criticism and history from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, ranging from deconstruction, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, to narratology, technology, economics and aesthetics. Editor(s): Jacobs, Carol; Sussman, Henry. Num Pages: 296 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804746502
- ISBN
- 9780804746502
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Condition: New
€ 165.37
€ 165.37
Hardback. Written from various critical standpoints by international scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mideighteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Davison, Carol Margaret; Germana, Dr. Monica. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black and white illustrations, 1 line art. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474408196
- ISBN
- 9781474408196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.02
€ 107.02