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Literary theory

Paperback. Presents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of "strange" literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887079
ISBN
9780801887079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.21

Paperback. Brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West Editor(s): Graulich, Melody; Witschi, Nicolas S. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803264748
ISBN
9780803264748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.37

Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270442
ISBN
9780803270442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.24

Paperback. One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley Editor(s): Krieger, Murray. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720984
ISBN
9780804720984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725613
ISBN
9780804725613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts--classical, modernist, and contemporary--as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727037
ISBN
9780804727037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.24

Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727778
ISBN
9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 45.46

Paperback. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729529
ISBN
9780804729529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Hardback. This text explores the complex relations among the hegemonic triad of territory, nation and national literature that has characterized the modern European nation-state. In the case of Hebrew literature, this triad was unattainable and its components fiercely contested. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729840
ISBN
9780804729840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.32

Paperback. Here, the author effects a rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by names including Moses Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 428 pages, 13 line diagrams 15 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739313
ISBN
9780804739313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 45.46

Paperback. Shirane and Suzuki examine how the Japanese canon of "classics" (The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho) was constructed as part of the creation of Japan as a modern nation-state and as a result of Western influence. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo; Suzuki, Tomi. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741057
ISBN
9780804741057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.78

Paperback. Featuring essays originally published in La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, this collection clearly demonstrates why Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742245
ISBN
9780804742245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. Explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature, starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett. This book also offers an overview of philosophical approaches to contemporary literature and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754576
ISBN
9780804754576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.10

Paperback. Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty previously uncollected essays on literature and literary theory by one of the most important thinkers of the past thirty years. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781077
ISBN
9780804781077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. This book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785204
ISBN
9780804785204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Hardback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785822
ISBN
9780804785822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.70

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814758106
ISBN
9780814758106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816610068
ISBN
9780816610068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639038
ISBN
9780816639038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.45

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