Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882807
- ISBN
- 9780801882807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.52
€ 72.52
Series Editor(s): Ringrose, Chris. Num Pages: 644 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 162 x 222 x 38. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 644
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838208565
- ISBN
- 9783838208565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.23€ 66.14
€ 84.23
€ 66.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062537
- ISBN
- 9780252062537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.76
€ 21.99
€ 21.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612051598
- ISBN
- 9781612051598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.29
€ 74.29
Paperback. Presents a comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mario de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). This title offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, Huidobro's "Non serviam" and Mario's "Parabola d'A escrava que nao e Isaura". Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AD; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 228 x 7. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534224
- ISBN
- 9781557534224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardcover. Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268792
- ISBN
- 9781137268792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335206
- ISBN
- 9781349335206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299030
- ISBN
- 9780230299030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228508
- ISBN
- 9780823228508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.07
€ 102.07
Hardcover. This title examines the role of animal metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293437
- ISBN
- 9780312293437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471618
- ISBN
- 9781611471618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.32
€ 117.32
Paperback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740463
- ISBN
- 9780804740463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.22
€ 42.99
€ 38.22
Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804740456
- ISBN
- 9780804740456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.31
€ 169.31
Paperback. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349226849
- ISBN
- 9781349226849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.93
€ 194.93
Paperback. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349224388
- ISBN
- 9781349224388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 193.54
€ 193.54
Hardback. Besides essays on dramatists like Soyinka, Walcott, Williamson, Nowra, Fugard, Walker, Pollock and Thompson, there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333534175
- ISBN
- 9780333534175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.16
€ 196.16
Hardback. Examines such topics as the autobiographical basis of Gordimer's fiction, her relationship to feminism, the place of the white woman in black Africa, the ambiguity of revolutionary politics, her ambivalent relationship to Judaism, her use of irony, the symbolism of landscape, and other topics. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333534168
- ISBN
- 9780333534168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.89
€ 195.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Grenville, Bruce. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20col.ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551521169
- ISBN
- 9781551521169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.56
€ 31.99
€ 29.56
Hardback. The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in "Anna Karenina" (1878). This title identifies and analyses 'linkages and keystones' found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna's momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky's disastrous steeplechase. Num Pages: 132 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235186
- ISBN
- 9781936235186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.97
€ 108.97
Hardcover. Editor(s): King, Roma A., Jr. Series: Complete Works of Robert Browning. Num Pages: 442 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821400746
- ISBN
- 9780821400746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Paperback. A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple traditions and influences within Anglo-Irish poetry from the 19th century to the present. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349094721
- ISBN
- 9781349094721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
Hardback. Storytellers have long been agents of socialization. This text traces the evolution of female characters in young adult fiction from their passive role in books published prior to the 20th century to their increasingly assertive role in books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, footnotes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842908
- ISBN
- 9780810842908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, and Edgar Hun...
Brown, Charles Brockden. Ed(S): Barnard, Phil...
A four-volume set that features a copy of "Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memories of the Year 1793", "Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker", "Wieland: Or the Transformation", and "Ormond: Or the Secret Witness". Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 1478 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 105. Weight in Grams: 2786.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 1478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841481
- ISBN
- 9781603841481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.20€ 137.76
€ 172.20
€ 137.76
Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, and Edgar Hun...
Brown, Charles Brockden. Ed(S): Barnard, Phil...
Paperback. A four-volume set that features a copy of "Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memories of the Year 1793", "Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker", "Wieland: Or the Transformation", and "Ormond: Or the Secret Witness". Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 1478 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 157 x 86. Weight in Grams: 2290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 1478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841474
- ISBN
- 9781603841474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.59€ 55.42
€ 65.59
€ 55.42