Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Presents a wide-ranging and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. This book distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. It covers the works of major authors, including Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405117074
- ISBN
- 9781405117074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.14
€ 40.99
€ 39.14
Paperback. We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199532179
- ISBN
- 9780199532179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.77
€ 11.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300194135
- ISBN
- 9780300194135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. * Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405151412
- ISBN
- 9781405151412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.96
€ 25.99
€ 25.96
Paperback. In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 307 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076531
- ISBN
- 9780231076531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.49
€ 42.99
€ 30.49
Hardcover. This is a study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks and novels, this text applies recent forms of ideological and postcolonial criticism to a body of work published from 1810 to 1992. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316734
- ISBN
- 9780820316734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.91
€ 61.91
Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JNM; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821412206
- ISBN
- 9780821412206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.95
€ 47.95
Paperback. The first-ever collection of Anniiih/Gros Ventre narratives to be published in the Aaniiih/Gros Ventre language, this book contains traditional trickster tales and war stories. Some of these stories were collected by Alfred Kroeber in 1901, while others are contemporary, oral stories, told in the past few years. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; FF; FJM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139. .
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889774803
- ISBN
- 9780889774803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.32
€ 25.99
€ 22.32
Paperback. This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. Series: Shakespeare in Practice. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 1. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408525
- ISBN
- 9781137408525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.57
€ 35.99
€ 30.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613744260
- ISBN
- 9781613744260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.13
€ 17.99
€ 17.13
Hardback. The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the school and its tutors. Series: African Articulations. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011091
- ISBN
- 9781847011091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.80
€ 113.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780816691586
- ISBN
- 9780816691586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.33
€ 27.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Premier Book Marketing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813120102
- ISBN
- 9780813120102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.88
€ 45.88
paperback. Editor(s): Soufas, Teresa Scott. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scholarly Book Services Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780813108896
- ISBN
- 9780813108896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.54
€ 52.54
Hardback. An introduction to the poetry of Jorge Teillier (Chile, 1935-1986). Commonly referred to as ?poesie larica? (poetry of the lar or hearth), Tellier's poetry looks to the countryside, to familiar domestic objects in the provincial home, and to the folklore of an illusive past as a way of restoring meaning to individual existence. Num Pages: 149 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838755051
- ISBN
- 9780838755051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.06
€ 103.06
Hardcover. Focusses on the years that Eca de Queiros lived in Paris and shows how the periodicals he conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian and American publications. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 241 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662681
- ISBN
- 9781855662681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472189
- ISBN
- 9781611472189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.16
€ 122.16
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442627000
- ISBN
- 9781442627000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.77
€ 35.99
€ 33.77
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442637238
- ISBN
- 9781442637238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.63
€ 60.63
Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231070508
- ISBN
- 9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.01€ 78.05
€ 104.01
€ 78.05