Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This text presents a biographical and critical study of C.S. Forester and the "Hornblower" saga. Focusing on the writing, character models, background and nautical veracity of the novels, the book examines the depiction of naval warfare and Forester's research techniques. Num Pages: 128 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815606215
- ISBN
- 9780815606215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.48
€ 21.99
€ 20.48
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691604374
- ISBN
- 9780691604374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725613
- ISBN
- 9780804725613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490770
- ISBN
- 9781611490770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardback. This volume is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary in eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460629
- ISBN
- 9781611460629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardback. This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Series: Studies in Text & Print Culture. Num Pages: 318 pages, 109 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AFH; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611461916
- ISBN
- 9781611461916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Hardback. The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. Editor(s): Jung, Sandro. Series: Essays and Studies. Num Pages: 239 pages, 44, 40 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843436
- ISBN
- 9781843843436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.80
€ 80.80
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716531388
- ISBN
- 9780716531388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.00€ 35.53
€ 45.00
€ 35.53
Hardcover. The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new globalization strategies that connect postcolonial artworks to the market place. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272584
- ISBN
- 9781137272584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it? What does postmodernism mean? Can I get away with just reading the introduction? This title guides you through the Western literary canon, century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel, via Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Proust. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044521
- ISBN
- 9780141044521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Macpherson's original insights will have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the 18th-century novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893841
- ISBN
- 9780801893841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.37
€ 75.37
Hardcover. Combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. This title offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311296
- ISBN
- 9780226311296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.89€ 50.94
€ 58.89
€ 50.94
paperback. Includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises and discussion of poetry writing as a method. This book helps students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry. Series: Developing Qualitative Inquiry. Num Pages: 160 pages, poems, references, index. BIC Classification: DSC; JHBC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781598744019
- ISBN
- 9781598744019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Hardcover. Explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. Series: Children's Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSS0007772
- ISBN
- 9780415980333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403902122
- ISBN
- 9781403902122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Paperback. Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. It brings new insights to bear by exploring the plays in their relation to the culture and society of the period. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633114
- ISBN
- 9780745633114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.04
€ 26.04
Hardback. Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern England produced for the professional theatre. It brings new insights to bear by exploring the plays in their relation to the culture and society of the period. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633107
- ISBN
- 9780745633107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.09
€ 73.09
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842712
- ISBN
- 9781843842712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Perez, R. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349538621
- ISBN
- 9781349538621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This work closely analyzes and evaluates the literary achievement and the sociopolitical impact of three eighteenth-century Anglo-African authors -- Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano -- and their work, which collectively represents the earliest emergence of black self-consciousness in England. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941664790
- ISBN
- 9780941664790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.16
€ 117.16
Hardcover. Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406309
- ISBN
- 9781137406309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487929
- ISBN
- 9781349487929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1982
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349168712
- ISBN
- 9781349168712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.35
€ 47.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349160587
- ISBN
- 9781349160587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 193.45
€ 193.45