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Paperback. Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535030
- ISBN
- 9781557535030
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Condition: New
€ 52.05
€ 52.05
hardcover. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; 2ADT; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730211
- ISBN
- 9780804730211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.94
€ 111.94
Paperback. For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226500850
- ISBN
- 9780226500850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Offers a critical autobiographical overview of the work of Avital Ronell. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076237
- ISBN
- 9780252076237
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.81
€ 30.99
€ 27.81
Hardback. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 810.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408163
- ISBN
- 9781421408163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.08
€ 77.08
Paperback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631202493
- ISBN
- 9780631202493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Hardback. 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: 224 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887062
- ISBN
- 9780801887062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.14
€ 80.14
Hardback. aeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745616667
- ISBN
- 9780745616667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.32
€ 62.32
Hardback. Considers how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746632
- ISBN
- 9780804746632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.45
€ 95.45
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
€ 80.57
€ 80.57
Hardcover. Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226096285
- ISBN
- 9780226096285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.22€ 76.88
€ 92.22
€ 76.88
Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988917
- ISBN
- 9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.74
€ 37.74
paperback. Providing an account of the work of the European Marxist theorists, this book presents a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making - in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Num Pages: 432 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691013114
- ISBN
- 9780691013114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.16
€ 45.99
€ 32.16
Paperback. This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline and extensive bibliographical references. Editor(s): Brandist, Craig; Shepherd, David; Tihanov, Galin. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719064098
- ISBN
- 9780719064098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.65
€ 36.65
Hardback. This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and in the context of age-old metaphysical biases against body, history, time, and the mundane as these continue to shape our system of values and moral commitments. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723879
- ISBN
- 9780804723879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.36
€ 107.36
Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743501
- ISBN
- 9780804743501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
Paperback. "Subjectivity" explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the classical era to the present and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. It examines all the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the 20th and 21st centuries. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 156 pages, glossary bibliog index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415287623
- ISBN
- 9780415287623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.36
€ 27.36
Paperback. A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 31. Weight in Grams: 812.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341598
- ISBN
- 9780822341598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.84
€ 40.99
€ 35.84
Paperback. A third edition of this anthology of the most influential and comprehensive writing on the theory of fiction from the 19th century, through modernism and postmodernism to the present. Editor(s): Hoffman, Michael J.; Murphy, Patrick D. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335214
- ISBN
- 9780822335214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.72
€ 37.99
€ 33.72
Hardback. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. Num Pages: 228 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728119
- ISBN
- 9780804728119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.56
€ 135.56
Hardback. Covering definitions of key terms, important debates about literature and the world and the many forms of literature today, this is a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of literature, criticism and theory. Editor(s): Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl; Kjaeldgaard, Lasse Home; Moller, Lis; Ringgaard, Dan; Rosing, Lilian Munk; Simonsen, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 169. Weight in Grams: 927.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474271974
- ISBN
- 9781474271974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
hardcover. "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; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749152
- ISBN
- 9780804749152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.10
€ 112.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 454 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 227 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226791401
- ISBN
- 9780226791401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96