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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. An account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", interpreting the text as displaying the human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the limits set by culture. The author sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic protagonist pondering on the nature of intentional consciousness. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226203133
ISBN
9780226203133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.33

Hardback. This original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606753
ISBN
9780230606753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.33

Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 373.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403960429
ISBN
9781403960429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. This original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349374137
ISBN
9781349374137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.76

Hardcover. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JD; 3JF; DSA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 263 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1872.
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884024095
ISBN
9780884024095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 48.53

hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611492248
ISBN
9781611492248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.50

Paperback. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational empiricism, Charles Darwin's evolutionary biology, Wordsworth's "natural Methodism," and Emerson's idealism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137555595
ISBN
9781137555595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Reframing Emily Dickinson's work, this book argues that the experience/faith paradox of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the mind and soul, as well as the heart, of her legacy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602373
ISBN
9780230602373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403966308
ISBN
9781403966308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.88

Hardcover. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340633
ISBN
9780230340633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were acted by men, yet he wrote strong roles for women from Lady Macbeth to Rosalind. So was Shakespeare a feminist before his time? This study examines how these and other issues have maintained the playwright's influence throughout history. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333665480
ISBN
9780333665480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This volume examines Ben Jonson's role as literary critic, and examines the ways in which that criticism defines his role as a professional author. It suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629819
ISBN
9780333629819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.12

Paperback. * Contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 35. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
Volume IV
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405136082
ISBN
9781405136082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.50

Paperback. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using various resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. This book contains original essays on comedy from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to "Twelfth Night" as well as articles on such topics as Shakespeare's comedies on film. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 255 x 27. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Volume III
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405136075
ISBN
9781405136075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.78

Paperback. The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare's histories. Contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 39. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
Volume II
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405136068
ISBN
9781405136068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.71

Paperback. * Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. * Includes thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 39. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405136051
ISBN
9781405136051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.50

Hardback. Bringing together Continental literary theory and Anglo-American philosophy, Listening on All Sides reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams to uncover the role literary texts play in the way that language use creates and defines culture and ethics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757386
ISBN
9780804757386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.83

Paperback. Late-20th-century critical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. Terms include homo/hetero and patriarchal/feminist. This text exploits that framework to show how Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142272
ISBN
9780226142272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.14

hardcover. A study of the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian fiction. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812238136
ISBN
9780812238136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

paperback. Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offers a commentary on Auden's work, ideas and life within the context of the wars, ideologies, spiritual quests and sexual attitudes of this century. Series: Vintage Lives. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099442561
ISBN
9780099442561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 15.29

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