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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming'; time and the flow of life; 'major' and 'minor' literature; difference and repetition; and desire, the image and ideology. This book is intended for students who wish to think differently about life and literature and to create their own readings of literary texts. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415246347
ISBN
9780415246347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era. It looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists; explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions; and applies theories to literary texts. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415251341
ISBN
9780415251341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Cindy; Looby, Christopher. Num Pages: 440 pages, B&W Illus.: ,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156172
ISBN
9780231156172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.80

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
9780853239475
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and inscribed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KEX0280943
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644431
ISBN
9780691644431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.64

A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. Editor(s): Erlich, Victor. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 658 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
abridged ed
Number of pages
658
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300106114
ISBN
9780300106114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.60
€ 58.13

Hardback. Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844464
ISBN
9781843844464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.40

Paperback. Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes of visual memory, implicit knowledge, and mnemonic formats in order to better understand descriptive and ekphrastic passages. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
566
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067110
ISBN
9780674067110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.98

Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 Black and White Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 41. Weight in Grams: 930.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583944547
ISBN
9781583944547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.53

Hardback. This book provides a detailed study of all major stages of his literary production, from his third book, La pieza oscura (1963) to his posthumous Diario de Muerte (1989). Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482775
ISBN
9781611482775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. .
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910996089
ISBN
9781910996089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.57

He demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists-the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406749
ISBN
9781421406749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.09

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198127673
ISBN
9780198127673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 414.88

Paperback. The only complete, reliable English translation of this famous fifteenth-century text. Num Pages: 664 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRQX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1074. A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. 668 pages, 2 maps. The only complete, reliable English translation of this famous fifteenth-century text. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HRQX. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 31. Weight: 1046.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
668
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521747875
ISBN
9780521747875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 44.37

Hardback. Reading portraiture as a national rhetoric during the romantic period, Imagining the Gallery reveals a pervasive cultural discourse that reflects and propels sociopolitical shifts taking place in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Num Pages: 272 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751247
ISBN
9780804751247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.56

Hardcover. This book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wumingshi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, and popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (Xinganjue Pai). Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748696369
ISBN
9780748696369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.10
€ 107.00

Paperback. Looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300171464
ISBN
9780300171464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.61

Paperback. This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245.
Publisher
Faber Faber Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571170357
ISBN
9780571170357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453694
ISBN
9780801453694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155203
ISBN
9780691155203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.14
€ 45.09

Hardback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 508. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781477309773
ISBN
9781477309773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.31

Paperback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477310687
ISBN
9781477310687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals can be mitigated but never finally abolished Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245215
ISBN
9780823245215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.68

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