Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase "the love of literature" as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226183701
- ISBN
- 9780226183701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.93€ 78.75
€ 94.93
€ 78.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSB; HPDF; HRE; HRG; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133999
- ISBN
- 9780231133999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.54
€ 44.54
Hardback. From the first publication of The Bobsey Twins in 1904 to titles published in 1992, Storey annotates over 300 books that feature twins. An index shows whether the twins are main, secondary, or minor characters. Num Pages: 410 pages, Plans :Includes indexes. BIC Classification: DSY; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810826410
- ISBN
- 9780810826410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.61
€ 147.61
Paperback. Shows that J.M. Synge's command of Irish was extensive, and that this knowledge proved invaluable in the writing of his major plays. This reappraisal of Synge's achievement draws on his unpublished papers in the Irish language. The author reveals Synge's indebtedness to the Gaelic tradition. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333604823
- ISBN
- 9780333604823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
Hardback. A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781786693228
- ISBN
- 9781786693228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.50
€ 14.50
Paperback. A critical history of modern Irish literature. Kiberd develops his story through subtle readings of such writers as Joyce, O'Casey, Beckett and Bowen. Giving a controversial interpretation of post-colonial Ireland, he then surveys more recent works, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2CSJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 48. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099582212
- ISBN
- 9780099582212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.53
€ 23.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242559
- ISBN
- 9780571242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.95
€ 17.99
€ 12.95
Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439727
- ISBN
- 9781137439727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Hardback. The position of what can be known, or, what cannot be known is foundational to one of the pivotal readings of modernism. Saying that these narratives - the thinking of what constitutes truth and the rethinking of gender - are intertwined, this book suggests that where there is a crisis in knowing, there is also a crisis in gender. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911069
- ISBN
- 9781575911069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926810
- ISBN
- 9780813926810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.53
€ 32.53
Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135940
- ISBN
- 9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.87
€ 115.87
Paperback. Bringing together a wealth of material with clear critical commentary, Debra J. Rosenthal offers the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to study this crucial American novel. Editor(s): Rosenthal, Debra J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415234740
- ISBN
- 9780415234740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.09
€ 30.09
paperback. Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; AC; DSBH; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343103
- ISBN
- 9780822343103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226398174
- ISBN
- 9780226398174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 39.88
€ 51.99
€ 39.88
hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838757680
- ISBN
- 9780838757680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.01
€ 139.01
Hardcover. Editor(s): Andrist, Debra D. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845198367
- ISBN
- 9781845198367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486357
- ISBN
- 9780801486357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.56
€ 44.99
€ 39.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631131
- ISBN
- 9780816631131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816639588
- ISBN
- 9780816639588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Hardback. An in-depth study of twenty-eight young adult novels published between 1967 and 1997 about the Vietnam war. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810835351
- ISBN
- 9780810835351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.84
€ 146.84
hardcover. Romantic Returns explores the theorization and operation of "imagination" in pre-romantic and romantic writing. Drawing on the poetry and prose of William Collins, William Hazlitt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, it shows the continuing importance of their understanding of imagination for contemporary debates about the historicity of literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734943
- ISBN
- 9780804734943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.69
€ 81.69
Paperback. In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues. Num Pages: 384 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; ACG; AFKB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094885
- ISBN
- 9780691094885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.83€ 53.67
€ 68.83
€ 53.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472929
- ISBN
- 9781611472929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.34
€ 117.34
Num Pages: 249 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813117645
- ISBN
- 9780813117645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.35
€ 47.35