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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in Garcia Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal life. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 181 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662964
ISBN
9781855662964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

Hardcover. This book is devoted to studying the visual representations of Jose Marti's body and the discourses of power that make it possible for Marti's images to be perceived as icons today. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340756
ISBN
9780230340756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219861
ISBN
9780230219861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; DSBB; DSK; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
HarperOne
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060750664
ISBN
9780060750664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611484007
ISBN
9781611484007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.49

Hardback. This early novel of Emilia Pardo Bazan is her most Naturalistic work in the manner of the French movement, and is also her most outspoken statement of her feminist point of view. Translator(s): Borenstein, Walter. Num Pages: 261 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481013
ISBN
9781611481013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.71

Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603846271
ISBN
9781603846271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603846264
ISBN
9781603846264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.79

Paperback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691615356
ISBN
9780691615356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776747916
ISBN
9788776747916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.43

Hardback. This new interdisciplinary collection spanning anthropology, image studies, literary criticism, psychology and history explores the ways in which children's books were important vehicles for the expression of national identities, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, right up until the present day. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Emer; Immel, Andrea. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137461681
ISBN
9781137461681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.32

Hardback. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810860803
ISBN
9780810860803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.03

Paperback. Tracing the history of the Catholic-authored novel in nineteenth-century Ireland, this work offers a tour of Ireland's literary landscape from its early origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to the transformative zenith brought on by James Joyce's "Ulysses" in 1922. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631750
ISBN
9780815631750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.70

Hardback. Editor(s): Godfrey, Emelyne. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137523396
ISBN
9781137523396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.99

Hardback. Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230273450
ISBN
9780230273450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Hardcover. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300316
ISBN
9780230300316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Scanziani, Emanuele. Num Pages: 24 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 279 x 162 x 5. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Tara Books
Number of pages
24
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788192317137
ISBN
9788192317137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.06

Paperback. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349291243
ISBN
9781349291243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 2AB; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108431
ISBN
9780230108431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Paperback. Anniversary book dedicated to Stanislaw Stachowski on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poland
Condition
New
Number of pages
268
SKU
V9788323330158
ISBN
9788323330158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.45

Paperback. A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. It covers the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. It features theories of Native literature, the history of Native literature studies, and themes of trauma and memory as well as changing mythologies. Editor(s): Pulitano, Elvira. Num Pages: 336 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803260344
ISBN
9780803260344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. An invitation to discover the two most enduring and exciting stories ever to have been told Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780742298
ISBN
9781780742298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Hardback. Michie's fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401867
ISBN
9781421401867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.32
€ 67.87

Hardcover. Editor(s): Mundal, Else; Wellendorf, Jonas. Num Pages: 241 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
241
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763505048
ISBN
9788763505048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.12
€ 40.81

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