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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 767.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473315
ISBN
9781611473315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.52

Paperback. Suitable for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines, this book describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard for whites to see and identifies common white racial patterns. Series: Counterpoints. Num Pages: 318 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JKS; JMAL; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433111150
ISBN
9781433111150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.98

Hardback. Editor(s): Sowerby, Robin. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483307
ISBN
9781611483307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.02

paperback. A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas". It investigates how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado's style reveals the embedded class divisions of 19th-century Brazil. Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322399
ISBN
9780822322399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. Hardback, shrinkwrapped as new. With dustjacket.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KRF0026860
ISBN
9780813011059
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481464
ISBN
9781611481464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.76

Paperback. Series: The Open Yale Courses. Num Pages: 384 pages, 22 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300198645
ISBN
9780300198645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.59

Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 10 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199754915
ISBN
9780199754915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turns to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay The Painter of Modern Life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957561
ISBN
9780241957561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473124
ISBN
9781611473124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.81

Hardcover. While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook, she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman a clef. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137413659
ISBN
9781137413659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Despite its associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function as a vehicle for imaginatively "fixing" the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing. This study explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, loss and recovery. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312238759
ISBN
9780312238759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618732
ISBN
9780230618732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.07

Paperback. On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe. Editor(s): Micallef, Roberta; Sharma, Sunil. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 185 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
185
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073340
ISBN
9780674073340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.71

Hardback. Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 1232-1316) upon Donne. The author shows how Donne refashioned Lull's abstract version of Mary and used this "Mary" to include Muslims and Jews in the church universal. This study will appeal to new historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology. Num Pages: 259 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910949
ISBN
9781575910949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.78

Hardcover. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403994790
ISBN
9781403994790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Hardback. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear. Num Pages: 385 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138733
ISBN
9780874138733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.17

Paperback. Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 191 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674970861
ISBN
9780674970861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 445 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 28. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493320
ISBN
9781611493320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.86

Paperback. In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly fell due to harsh criticism. The reception marked the beginning of a dynamic association between Joyce, German-language writers, and literary critics. It is this relationship that Robert Weninger analyses in The German Joyce. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813062426
ISBN
9780813062426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.78

Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812220223
ISBN
9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. Series: Indigenous Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816646173
ISBN
9780816646173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardcover. Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. Num Pages: 222 pages, 46+ illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Anthem Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857284426
ISBN
9780857284426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Rix, Robert W.; Moller, Lis; Lykke Grand, Karina; Sandberg, Anna Lena. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aarhus Univ Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9788771242287
ISBN
9788771242287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.88

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