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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. An anthology of essays that approach literature as communicative structures dependent on media and on rhetorical and narrative modes. Ranging from ancient Greece to the present, the essays are preoccupied with the formal constructions of literature rather than conceptions of particular aesthetic experiences. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778386793
ISBN
9788778386793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Presents issue 19 of Aarhus University Press' arts and humanities journal "The Dolphin", analysing the impact of the French Revolution on English literature. This work covers topics such as Burke and the debate on the Revolution, Jane Austen's political silence, and William Blake's revolutionary rhetoric. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 148 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772883694
ISBN
9788772883694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.07

Hardcover. Writing the Ottomans examines historical writing on the Turks in England from 1480-1700, tracing the evolution of this discourse and exploring its central authors, works, and contexts. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401526
ISBN
9781137401526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Paperback. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. This work is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between him and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Translator(s): Watts, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447804
ISBN
9780140447804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardback. A memoir of a life in exile. Anca Vlasopolos recounts her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States. She writes about the peculiar attributes of displacement in the comtemporary world; the ambiguous identities, and the nostalgia for places dimly recalled. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121309
ISBN
9780231121309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.45
€ 46.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443523
ISBN
9780140443523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1444.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147866
ISBN
9780231147866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 133.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147873
ISBN
9780231147873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967213
ISBN
9781403967213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.21

Paperback. Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldua, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers Editor(s): Keating, AnaLouise; Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria. Num Pages: 292 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 611. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292743953
ISBN
9780292743953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 277 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403935380
ISBN
9781403935380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Paperback. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349294497
ISBN
9781349294497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. Analyzing the trends and developments of African American historical fiction written by women in the twentieth century, Nunes' approach addresses the relationship between history and literature, reworking the historical record from the point of view of the silenced female and giving origin to an unprecedented narrative of the American experience. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137363718
ISBN
9781137363718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardcover. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112537
ISBN
9780230112537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. A quick fix of fiction in this age of speed and technology. Translator(s): Dahl Buchanan, Rhona. Series: Secret Weavers Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CJB; DCF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781893996915
ISBN
9781893996915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483222
ISBN
9781611483222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.32

Paperback. This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions. Editor(s): Kothe, Ana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HRCC7; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349369669
ISBN
9781349369669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137482914
ISBN
9781137482914
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

These twenty-nine original essays focuses on how cultural and literary genres and norms have developed in response to historical and cross-cultural influences. Editor(s): Heinrich, Amy Vladeck. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 953.
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096966
ISBN
9780231096966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.21

Hardback. The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. Num Pages: 280 pages, 127 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768740
ISBN
9780804768740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.61

Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113890
ISBN
9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Hardcover. Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137373151
ISBN
9781137373151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512703
ISBN
9781137512703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardback. This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804775892
ISBN
9780804775892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

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