Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. Editor(s): Dowden, Stephen D.; Quinn, Thomas P. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135858
- ISBN
- 9781571135858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.53
€ 147.53
Hardback. Faulkner's comedy incorporates tragedy and despair; the humour in his novels can intensify or relieve a tragic or horrific effect. This study examines Faulkner's first nine novels, showing how humour is used to express theme: how it appears in the action, characters, and discourse of each novel and how it contributes to the overall effect of each . Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838640142
- ISBN
- 9780838640142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Hardcover. Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century including W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter. The press ceased operations in 1992, but remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England. Editor(s): Roberts, Ryan. Num Pages: 160 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243235
- ISBN
- 9781851243235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.76
€ 40.99
€ 28.76
Paperback. Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of horses and horsemanship in early Greek epic and lyric poetry. Drawing from the fields of comparative poetics and historical linguistics, the book sheds new light on fascinating and puzzling aspects of these central figures in early Greek verbal art. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975705
- ISBN
- 9780674975705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.19
€ 23.99
€ 20.19
Paperback. The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this watershed event through historically contextualized readings of five paradigmatic novels. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534873
- ISBN
- 9781557534873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.43
€ 58.43
Hardcover. Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare. Num Pages: 249 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193294
- ISBN
- 9781845193294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.76
€ 126.76
Paperback. Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBH; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748643196
- ISBN
- 9780748643196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.49
€ 33.99
€ 30.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 10 line art illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646869
- ISBN
- 9780816646869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.82
€ 24.99
€ 22.82
Paperback. Narratology has been conceived as a project that transcends disciplines and media. This book investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. It addresses the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803289932
- ISBN
- 9780803289932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.04
€ 37.99
€ 36.04
Paperback. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken-or hopes to take-in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22, 10 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417974
- ISBN
- 9781421417974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 33.83
€ 41.99
€ 33.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480771
- ISBN
- 9781611480771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.84
€ 109.84
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125227
- ISBN
- 9781905125227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.45
€ 73.45
Paperback. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165813
- ISBN
- 9780691165813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.60
€ 24.99
€ 18.60
Hardback. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada also illuminates the key individuals -- including Hugh Eayrs, John Gray, and Hugh Kane -- whose personalities were as fascinating as those of the authors they published, and whose achievements helped to advance modern literature in Canada. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098771
- ISBN
- 9780802098771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.07
€ 55.07
Paperback. Offers broad coverage of contemporary narrative theory, including frameworks that draw from classical and post-classical narratology, linguistics, and media studies Editor(s): Page, Ruth; Thomas, Bronwen. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 360 pages, 25 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803217867
- ISBN
- 9780803217867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.15
€ 42.99
€ 42.15
Paperback. Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, this title analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037660
- ISBN
- 9780691037660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.98
€ 53.19
€ 41.98
Paperback. Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, Ruth Padel, who hit the headlines in 2009 when she was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in controversial circumstances. The story of her election and resignation received international news coverage. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 6. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852248277
- ISBN
- 9781852248277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.37
€ 13.99
€ 11.37
Paperback. Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099429159
- ISBN
- 9780099429159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
€ 17.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JJP; 3JM; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 114. .
- Publisher
- Regan Arts United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632060525
- ISBN
- 9781632060525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.93
€ 13.99
€ 12.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501703072
- ISBN
- 9781501703072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53