Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This guide provides a detailed introduction to each of the major Renaissance literary genres and key Renaissance texts and authors. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625840
- ISBN
- 9780748625840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.83
€ 33.99
€ 29.83
Hardback. Having returned to Russia in 1990 after two decades, the writer known as Abram Tertz creates a vivid picture of today's Russian intelligentsia and its role as conscience and critic since the fall of communism, as well as a chilling portrait of economic and political stagnation under Yeltsin. Translator(s): Visson, Lynn. Series: Harriman Lectures S. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; DSA; JFC; JFSC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107266
- ISBN
- 9780231107266
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Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 42.58
€ 53.00
€ 42.58
Paperback. It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices. Editor(s): Singer, Alan; Dunn, Allen. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631208693
- ISBN
- 9780631208693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Hardcover. Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place of religion and spirituality in the world. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135490
- ISBN
- 9781571135490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.02
€ 99.02
paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- V9780312400378
- ISBN
- 9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.70
€ 43.99
€ 37.70
Hardcover. The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301536
- ISBN
- 9781137301536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453610
- ISBN
- 9781349453610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. Series: Focus on. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 134 x 207 x 4. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075101
- ISBN
- 9781906075101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
€ 13.99
€ 13.48
Hardback. This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115934
- ISBN
- 9780230115934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFF; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297078
- ISBN
- 9781349297078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541321
- ISBN
- 9781137541321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- TRA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590171455
- ISBN
- 9781590171455
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. The publication of de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre caused a storm of controversy in Paris in 1990. Frank and uncensored, they show her experimenting with her freedom within her love for Sartre, and trace the emotional and triangular complications of her life with him. Editor(s): Hoare, Quintin. Translator(s): Hoare, Quintin. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099914907
- ISBN
- 9780099914907
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Translator(s): Kirkup, James. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185330
- ISBN
- 9780141185330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816649969
- ISBN
- 9780816649969
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardcover. Through well-documented case studies this volume showcases the multifaceted relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective in Eastern Europe. Editor(s): Mitroiu, Simona. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485519
- ISBN
- 9781137485519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
hardcover. Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649743
- ISBN
- 9781442649743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442627079
- ISBN
- 9781442627079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.50
€ 40.99
€ 36.50
Paperback. Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; DSB; DSK; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190614546
- ISBN
- 9780190614546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.87
€ 16.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895385
- ISBN
- 9780859895385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.73
€ 37.73