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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Through detailed readings of Montaigne, Schlegel, and Kafka, this book answers a challenge that has persisted in literary theory and literary history for almost two decades--how to historicize the concept of literature. Translator(s): Britto, Paulo. Num Pages: 356 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725408
ISBN
9780804725408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.78

Paperback. Editor(s): White, Landeg. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199539963
ISBN
9780199539963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the "peripheral" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KLSB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923765
ISBN
9780813923765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.16

Hardcover. The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. Editor(s): Zamuner, Edoardo; Di Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina; Levy, D. K. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118842676
ISBN
9781118842676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.80

Paperback. Contains the German text of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", with an English translation "en regard" by C.K. Ogden. Translator(s): Ogden, C. K. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415051866
ISBN
9780415051866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.74

Paperback. Talks about the grand hotel life. In this story, you can meet the girl-hungry hotel Magician, Kalakobe the African cook, Mr Sigsag, Monsieur Victor, Mespoulet, and an unforgettable cast of down but not yet out hotel employees. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGHA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Ebury Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091887872
ISBN
9780091887872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.66

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691653433
ISBN
9780691653433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.34

Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB; HRAB; HRAM6; HRCX6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156202
ISBN
9780231156202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.80

Paperback. Series: York Notes Companions. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; DSY. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408266625
ISBN
9781408266625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.40

Hardcover. A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318436
ISBN
9781846318436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.75

Paperback. Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling an illimuntating tale of the curious occasion of the 'peacock dinner,' when W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound led four lesser-known poets to the home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to eat a peacock. Num Pages: 240 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198788331
ISBN
9780198788331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.16

hardcover. Daniels, author of Caleb, My Son, here tells of her troubled childhood, which included bouts of anorexia and mental illness. Her struggle to overcome her problems resulted in a bestselling book and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 169 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1007.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568332505
ISBN
9781568332505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 204 x 39. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486811246
ISBN
9780486811246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.76

Paperback. The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801843099
ISBN
9780801843099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.44

Paperback. Translator(s): Molino, Anthony. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Open Letter
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940953144
ISBN
9781940953144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.83

Paperback. Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child must have been astonished at his rise from being, in his own words, 'a little labouring hind' to becoming one of the most famous and adored men in the world. Series: NPG Companions. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
National Portrait Gallery Publications United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855145962
ISBN
9781855145962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press U.S.A.
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822312246
ISBN
9780822312246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.90

Hardcover. Francophone Jewish Writers examines how Franco-Jewish writers depict Israel in autobiographies, memoirs and novels, exploring how those depictions reflect and inflect current socio-political tensions within and between France and Israel. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781382622
ISBN
9781781382622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.20

Hardback. In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646162
ISBN
9781442646162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816643257
ISBN
9780816643257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

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