Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Although L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was published more than 100 years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the world of Oz. This collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches. Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, footnotes. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810843806
- ISBN
- 9780810843806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.01
€ 119.01
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Cl...
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
paperback. Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers. Num Pages: 408 pages, 42 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215369
- ISBN
- 9780253215369
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. This book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSB; DSC; HRHC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222060
- ISBN
- 9780253222060
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.78
€ 32.99
€ 29.78
Paperback. Series: Myth and Poetics. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480461
- ISBN
- 9780801480461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.74
€ 42.99
€ 38.74
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641454
- ISBN
- 9780691641454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.17
€ 182.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403966872
- ISBN
- 9781403966872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including Proust, Breton, Woolf and Faulkner, uncovers valuable material for the classification of the memory process. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740651
- ISBN
- 9780333740651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333474006
- ISBN
- 9780333474006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.26
€ 28.26
Hardback. Studying the autobiographical novel of the early 20th century, this book uses Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin to uncover a common aesthetics of the manipulation of life facts into fiction which in turn sheds light on the creative process. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460016
- ISBN
- 9780333460016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardback. This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439574
- ISBN
- 9781137439574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? This book brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. It also engages with neuroscience and contemporary psychological research on empathy. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195175769
- ISBN
- 9780195175769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.79
€ 91.79
Paperback. The angelcan be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures.This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age." Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324743
- ISBN
- 9781349324743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275393
- ISBN
- 9780230275393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Argues that the sublime is important in understanding the late 19th-century shift from romanticism to modernism. The author studies the work of three French authors conventionally considered pivotal figures in the trajectory from romanticism to modernism: Hugo, Baudelaire and Lautreamont. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717861
- ISBN
- 9780804717861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.04
€ 87.04
Hardback. This text provides a literary and/or cultural context for each of Wolff's novels for young people, discusses the characters in terms of the plot and style, analyzes particularly literary elements as appropriate, and summarizes critical response. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810848580
- ISBN
- 9780810848580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.79
€ 105.79
A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary Hi...
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Ed.)
Hardback. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature. Editor(s): Akbari, Suzanne Conklin; Mallette, Karla. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098689
- ISBN
- 9780802098689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12, 6 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFS; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477812
- ISBN
- 9780801477812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardback. Examines the literary strategies of Anais Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions, scrutinizing her artistry, and identifying her modernist techniques and her poetic vision. This volume also contains views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell. Editor(s): Nalbantian, Suzanne. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333650875
- ISBN
- 9780333650875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Paperback. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634552
- ISBN
- 9780748634552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138177192
- ISBN
- 9781138177192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.67
€ 196.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780389208822
- ISBN
- 9780389208822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.65
€ 119.65
Paperback. Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352012
- ISBN
- 9781349352012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624168
- ISBN
- 9783837624168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- SKU
- V9780312227838
- ISBN
- 9780312227838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64