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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald characterizes her work as having unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, he explains how shet brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to her writing. Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570035616
ISBN
9781570035616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.13

Paperback. This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of 'literature' as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0008010
ISBN
9780415169141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 110 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 210. .
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242573
ISBN
9781851242573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. A Modern Classic edition of this First World War play with supporting notes for students including a full introduction exploring the work's themes, context and history, classroom activities and a chronology. Series: Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408137109
ISBN
9781408137109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, the author evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale. Translator(s): Rolleston, James; Evers, Kai. Num Pages: 128 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326908
ISBN
9780822326908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.10

Paperback. Regarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during WWII. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Series: Aesthetics of Resistance S. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335467
ISBN
9780822335467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardcover. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597805
ISBN
9781841597805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is the most popular poet in the United States. The main key to Rumi's success is the spiritual appeal of his work. It combines lyrical beauty with philosophical profundity, a sense of rapture and an acute awareness of human suffering in ways which speak directly to contemporary audiences. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 116 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597690
ISBN
9781841597690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.60

Hardback. This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481822
ISBN
9781611481822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.76

Paperback. A tale that contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268042356
ISBN
9780268042356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.44

Hardback. Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493290
ISBN
9781611493290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.38

Paperback. Traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. This book describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper. Num Pages: 246 pages, with colour & b&w illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595340412
ISBN
9781595340412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.58

Paperback. Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marks the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan; Mendelsohn, Harvey. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744027
ISBN
9780804744027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.02

Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231539
ISBN
9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.89

Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780823231546
ISBN
9780823231546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. A study of 'texture', a key feature of literary reading. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625819
ISBN
9780748625819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.99

Paperback. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350. 224 pages, illustrations. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight: 348.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625826
ISBN
9780748625826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Using the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone, this book examines the political ramifications of the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724456
ISBN
9780804724456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.55

Hardback. The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774130
ISBN
9780804774130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.80

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 587 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
587
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816615865
ISBN
9780816615865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? Series: New Longman Literature. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Longman Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Longman Literature
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582097124
ISBN
9780582097124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.90

Hardback. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Also, drawing on artists' books, drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books , the author illuminates the process of textual visualization. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733434
ISBN
9780804733434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816679768
ISBN
9780816679768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Also, drawing on artists' books, drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books , the author illuminates the process of textual visualization. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734721
ISBN
9780804734721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

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