Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishing
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853994883
- ISBN
- 9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.65
€ 34.65
Hardback. This book assesses the emphases and complexities of Albert Camus' lifelong preoccupation with justice within the sociopolitical sphere, against a background of changing personal and historical circumstances. It provides a chronological account of Camus' developing ideas on the concept, as expressed in his non-fiction. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473438
- ISBN
- 9781611473438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.69
€ 158.69
Hardback. Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy in illustrated covers with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004414
- ISBN
- 9780230574656
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120945
- ISBN
- 9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.77
€ 151.77
Hardback. The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century.The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Translator(s): Brougher, Valentina; Miller, Frank; Lipovetsky, Mark. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 800 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DQ; DSBH; FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1814.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235148
- ISBN
- 9781936235148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.21€ 139.25
€ 141.21
€ 139.25
Paperback. Series: AAR Academy Series. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 104 x 19. Weight in Grams: 143.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555403959
- ISBN
- 9781555403959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.50
€ 28.50
paperback. This study investigates the pragmatic dimension of Ezra Pound's work. Drawing on relevance theory, the text aims to reconstruct the dynamic communicative interface between Pound and his audiences (sociological, envisaged, and their dialectic) in the early period of his career. Series: International Cooper Series in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1996th Edition
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764354053
- ISBN
- 9783764354053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.17
€ 64.17
Hardback. Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AN; DSBD; HBTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783272037
- ISBN
- 9781783272037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Hardback. Here, Mark Knight offers an analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223091
- ISBN
- 9780823223091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.50
€ 90.50
Paperback. This work provides detailed information on 49 important sites with a strong connection to children's literature. Each chapter begins with background information about the author (or, in the cases of King Arthur and Robin Hood, the character), in particular his or her writings for children. Series: On the Road with Mr Toad. Num Pages: 168 pages, b&w photographs, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSY; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810848788
- ISBN
- 9780810848788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.52
€ 87.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Heimermann, Mark; Tullis, Brittany. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; DSY; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477311622
- ISBN
- 9781477311622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.59
€ 30.99
€ 27.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Heimermann, Mark; Tullis, Brittany. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; DSY; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477311615
- ISBN
- 9781477311615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 31. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173290
- ISBN
- 9780691173290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.60
€ 37.99
€ 27.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146708
- ISBN
- 9780231146708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.03
€ 83.03
Hardback. Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Editor(s): Frost, Mark. Series: Edinburgh critical editions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402392
- ISBN
- 9781474402392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51€ 107.92
€ 112.51
€ 107.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Repeater
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910924389
- ISBN
- 9781910924389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. The Canwell Committee made a frontal assault on unsanctioned political thought and activism. This play brings to life personal and political dramas of many participants central to these events. It blends dialogue drawn verbatim from transcripts, newspaper quotes, and personal interviews with scenes of fictional conjecture. Num Pages: 186 pages, 4 photos. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295979397
- ISBN
- 9780295979397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
hardcover. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730907
- ISBN
- 9780804730907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Paperback. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730914
- ISBN
- 9780804730914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184616
- ISBN
- 9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490978
- ISBN
- 9781611490978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.49
€ 125.49
paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975630
- ISBN
- 9781555975630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.41
€ 15.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293604
- ISBN
- 9780312293604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.41
€ 65.41
Paperback. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415222228
- ISBN
- 9780415222228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.17
€ 38.17