Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This work brings together in one volume the diverse and articulate voices of 17 Irish women writers from a variety of backgrounds and geographic locations. It examines the complicated maps of experience that these women's public, private, and literary lives represent. Editor(s): Moloney, Caitriona; Thompson, Helen. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630258
- ISBN
- 9780815630258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.94
€ 28.94
Hardcover. This work brings together in one volume the diverse and articulate voices of 17 Irish women writers from a variety of backgrounds and geographic locations. It examines the complicated maps of experience that these women's public, private, and literary lives represent. Editor(s): Moloney, Caitriona; Thompson, Helen. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629719
- ISBN
- 9780815629719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.22
€ 65.22
Hardcover. In 2001 a conference on Athenian Law and Life was held at Glasgow University to mark the retirment of Professor Douglas M MacDowell. These seventeen papers, from that conference, reflect MacDowell's interests in the development of Athenian law, Attic oratory and Greek comedy. Editor(s): Cairns, D.L.; Knox, R.A. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, fasims., port. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954384555
- ISBN
- 9780954384555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.45
€ 77.45
Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 1264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 1264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780134053325
- ISBN
- 9780134053325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.76
€ 120.76
Paperback. An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature. Editor(s): Hooper, Walter. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 31.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107658929
- ISBN
- 9781107658929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.07
€ 21.07
paperback. C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 214 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228. Series: Canto Classics. 152 pages. C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 136 x 214 x 8. Weight: 226.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604728
- ISBN
- 9781107604728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.81
€ 20.81
paperback. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332. An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Series: Canto Classics. 242 pages. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight: 344.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604704
- ISBN
- 9781107604704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.81
€ 20.81
Hardback. An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333448809
- ISBN
- 9780333448809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.00
€ 127.00
Hardback. Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Series: Modernist Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199844715
- ISBN
- 9780199844715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.69
€ 149.69
Paperback. In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476411
- ISBN
- 9781349476411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Republication of the pioneering classic study of modern Chinese fiction. Num Pages: 776 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 43. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 776
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213112
- ISBN
- 9780253213112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.45
€ 36.99
€ 34.45
Hardcover. This pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction covers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1111.
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629966614
- ISBN
- 9789629966614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.84
€ 83.84
Hardback. Editor(s): Hsia, C. T.; Li, Wai-yee; Kao, George. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122665
- ISBN
- 9780231122665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.08€ 101.89
€ 133.08
€ 101.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Hsia, C. T.; Li, Wai-yee; Kao, George. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122672
- ISBN
- 9780231122672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. now available in paperback for the first time. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228474
- ISBN
- 9780230228474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.53
€ 72.53
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453358
- ISBN
- 9781137453358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 42.58
€ 64.77
€ 42.58
Paperback. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486823
- ISBN
- 9781349486823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition(PB)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195003451
- ISBN
- 9780195003451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.29
€ 73.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Rose, C.; Robertson, E. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 462 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349631162
- ISBN
- 9781349631162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403967206
- ISBN
- 9781403967206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Hardback. After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364127
- ISBN
- 9780230364127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; CFA; DSA; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349515462
- ISBN
- 9781349515462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Pearson York Notes
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784260
- ISBN
- 9780582784260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.33
€ 11.33
Paperback. Instead of an isolated genius living in retreat from the world, George Herbert appears in this book as a man writing public verse, active within an important social circle and committed to nationalistic Protestantism. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 175 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 109 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333669792
- ISBN
- 9780333669792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95