Literary theory
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Literary theory
Paperback. Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life. Series: Theory Q. BIC Classification: 5S; APFA; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361916
- ISBN
- 9780822361916
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€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
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Hardcover. Offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. The author also draws on themes of ethical subjectivity in the work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze to provide essential reading for those involved in nineteenth-century literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194420
- ISBN
- 9781845194420
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€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Paperback. This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. Num Pages: 309 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FB; 1FMV; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206137
- ISBN
- 9780520206137
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€ 37.99€ 28.12
€ 37.99
€ 28.12
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.
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- 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
Paperback. "No Plays" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers. Translator(s): Tyler, Royall. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2ADT; 2GJ; 3H; 3J; DSA; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140445398
- ISBN
- 9780140445398
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Condition: New
€ 13.98
€ 13.98
Paperback. This reader contains contributions on such topics as: Shakespeare's ear; George Eliot and "Daniel Deronda" - the prostitute and the Jewish question; "The Bostonians"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the politics of literary history; logic of the transvestite; the Arab challenge to cultural dependancy. Editor(s): Veeser, Harold. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415907828
- ISBN
- 9780415907828
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Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Hardback. Argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions. Offering an overview of theory's directions, this collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism. Editor(s): Attridge, Derek; Elliott, Jane. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415484183
- ISBN
- 9780415484183
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€ 160.30
€ 160.30
Paperback. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 244.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749169
- ISBN
- 9780804749169
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.41
€ 27.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816694419
- ISBN
- 9780816694419
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.46
€ 31.99
€ 28.46
Paperback. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. Translator(s): Bennington, G.; Massumi, B. Num Pages: 144 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780719014505
- ISBN
- 9780719014505
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Condition: New
€ 13.61
€ 13.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478451
- ISBN
- 9780801478451
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.92
€ 37.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. A meditation on the colour spectrum by the painter, poet and film-maker, Derek Jarman. He explains the use of colour in medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists. It also discusses the meaning of colour in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099474913
- ISBN
- 9780099474913
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€ 10.99€ 9.15
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€ 9.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441109637
- ISBN
- 9781441109637
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€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Paperback. This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author's private and artistic persona. Editor(s): Hendrix, Harald. Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 47 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415540827
- ISBN
- 9780415540827
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€ 60.04
€ 60.04
Paperback. Translator(s): Savage, Robert. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501704352
- ISBN
- 9781501704352
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€ 24.99€ 23.18
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Paperback. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; RG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138013346
- ISBN
- 9781138013346
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Condition: New
€ 27.36
€ 27.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300028454
- ISBN
- 9780300028454
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.73
€ 25.99
€ 19.73
Paperback. 'Realism' is a term which is key to understanding, amongst other things: the novel genre, Victorian literature, modernism, and postmodernism. This study recognises that realism is every bit as complex as other modes of representation and requires a similar level of critique. Series Editor(s): Barry, Peter; McLeod, John. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780719072215
- ISBN
- 9780719072215
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
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Paperback. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Series Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364. A Theory of Literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 232 pages. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 14. Weight: 360. Series Editor(s) :McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748655083
- ISBN
- 9780748655083
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Condition: New
€ 29.39
€ 29.39
Paperback. Intended to deepening our understanding of the 'Poetics', this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. It includes twenty-one essays that explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the 'Poetics' to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. Editor(s): Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691014982
- ISBN
- 9780691014982
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.06
€ 52.99
€ 38.06