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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Writing Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770811
ISBN
9780804770811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493641
ISBN
9781611493641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801441707
ISBN
9780801441707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.41

Num Pages: 160 pages, 200 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; BK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764347023
ISBN
9780764347023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.42

Paperback. Argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226101699
ISBN
9780226101699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.89

Hardcover. How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226294131
ISBN
9780226294131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.24
€ 79.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 108 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293967
ISBN
9780226293967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.65

Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325628
ISBN
9780822325628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776356
ISBN
9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.27

Hardback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776349
ISBN
9780804776349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.23

Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.60

Paperback. An introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 26. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
Revised and Updated ed.
SKU
V9780859896337
ISBN
9780859896337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.87

Paperback. This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be of use to both students and the general reader. Series: Manchester Medieval Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719051463
ISBN
9780719051463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.17

Paperback. Presents the study of how people make choices while interacting with others - is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Afterword
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162447
ISBN
9780691162447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.20

Paperback. A study of autobiographies as sources for Jewish history. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984162
ISBN
9780295984162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSRC; JFSL3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625342508
ISBN
9781625342508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.78

Hardback. In late medieval and early modern Spain, physicians began to translate and refashion medical information for lay readers. This book explores the concept of the sickly reader, a highly motivated individual whom medical writers encouraged to seek out useful remedies and efficacious hygienic practices in various vernacular health guides. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242553
ISBN
9780812242553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.04

Paperback. Issue 24 of Aarhus University Press's arts and humanities journal, "The Dolphin", offers a collection of academic essays on Shakespearean films, with nine contributions by Scandinavian and American scholars. The contributors include Susanne Fabricius, Ib Johansen and Bernice W. Kilman. Editor(s): Skovmand, Michael. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 148 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772883755
ISBN
9788772883755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.62

By linking Frye's classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye's achievements in a fascinating new light. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643918
ISBN
9781442643918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.22

Paperback. Composed in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid, the "Metamorphoses" presents a collection of tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and legend. This prose translation of Ovid's masterpiece in the rapid and direct American idiom aims to catch the swiftness and clarity of the Latin original. Editor(s): Simpson, Michael. Translator(s): Simpson, Michael. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 852.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558493995
ISBN
9781558493995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.52

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