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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Theologians, philosophers, literary critics and historians of ideas, approach the question of how the Judaeo-Christian tradition of theological reflection has suffered from, and will negotiate, the emergence of postmodern theory and practice in literature and criticism. Editor(s): Jasper, David. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333570623
ISBN
9780333570623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.46

hardcover. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Translator(s): Raeburn, David. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Penguin Classics London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780141394619
ISBN
9780141394619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 20.72

hardcover. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 241 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JJPL; DSBH; DSK; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2017
SKU
V9783319466477
ISBN
9783319466477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned. Editor(s): Punter, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631231998
ISBN
9780631231998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.34

Paperback. Providing coverage of structuralist models and of the frameworks developed for the study of literary narratives, this reference also seeks to give an overview of paradigms for analyzing stories across a variety of media and genres - from film, television, opera, and digital environments, to gossip, sports broadcasts, and comics and graphic novels. Editor(s): Herman, David; Jahn, Manfred; Ryan, Marie-Laure. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415775120
ISBN
9780415775120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.33

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781108416450
ISBN
9781108416450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.73

Paperback. This Guide addresses the key concerns of postcolonial literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639397
ISBN
9780748639397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349192694
ISBN
9781349192694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349043613
ISBN
9781349043613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. Offers an introduction to the life and ideas of one of Ireland's great thinkers and patriots - AE Russell. This book studies the man that was AE through his thoughts and ideas. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; HRQC5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781845885434
ISBN
9781845885434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938462
ISBN
9780813938462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.21

Hardback. Num Pages: 27 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319544502
ISBN
9783319544502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.72

Paperback. This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349363896
ISBN
9781349363896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, this is a guide to contemporary African American literature. It presents information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124720
ISBN
9780231124720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 73.24

Hardcover. Clean copy in good dustwrapper
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers Nashville
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Special ed.
SKU
KEX0222404
ISBN
9780785260462
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Alphabetically arranged entries cover the lives and works of 54 Latin American mystery writers. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313305542
ISBN
9780313305542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.16
€ 59.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 2AB; 2ADP; DSB; HBTB; JFFN; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 308 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311486
ISBN
9781477311486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349491032
ISBN
9781349491032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.63

Paperback. Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in 1970, this has since become one of Fo's best known and translated text. Based on a true story it throws in to relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nyes's superb translation brings out the parallels with our situation today. Editor(s): Farrell, Joseph. Translator(s): Nye, Simon. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413772671
ISBN
9780413772671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.04

Paperback. Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 327 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740958
ISBN
9780814740958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Hardcover. Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137264404
ISBN
9781137264404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691622804
ISBN
9780691622804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137323972
ISBN
9781137323972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.52

Paperback. * This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved novelists celebrates the centenary of her birth. Editor(s): Taylor, Helen. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group London
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082353
ISBN
9781844082353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

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