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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855663008
ISBN
9781855663008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.58

Paperback. This study shows that sentimental, melodramatic and gothic novels written in the wake of the American Revolution can be read as an emotional history of the early Republic, reflecting the hate, fear and grief which tormented the federalist era, and giving voice to a collective mourning process. Num Pages: 306 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773117
ISBN
9780226773117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.72

Paperback.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780553213973
ISBN
9780553213973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.18

paperback. Editor(s): Julavits, Heidi; Leland, Andrew; Vida, Vendela. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Believer Magazine
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940450117
ISBN
9781940450117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of Black women writers and filmmakers, the author proposes that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing "life-force" to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923703
ISBN
9780813923703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.72

Paperback. The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches to early modern literary works, using King Lear as the focus of her argument, and offering a theoretical framework of her own. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320388
ISBN
9780822320388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.42

Paperback. This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. Plays covered include Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's Kitchen", and Jimmie Murphy's "The Muesli Belt". Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; DD; DSBH; DSG; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629870
ISBN
9780815629870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.27

Hardcover. This anthology - a companion volume to "New Plays From the Abbey Theatre, 1993-1995" - takes up where the first volume left off, with the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629283
ISBN
9780815629283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.41

paperback. Traces four hallmarks of Mark Twain's humour that are especially significant today. Twain's Brand highlights the modern relationship among humour, commerce, and culture that were first exploited by Mark Twain. Num Pages: 226 pages, 25|8 black & white, 17 color. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628461763
ISBN
9781628461763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.77

Hardcover. A definitive study of an author who in celebrating one era helped usher in the next. In this critical examination, the author sees Mary Arnold Ward as being "behind her times" in two senses - in her tireless defense of her evolving era's achievements and intentions, but also in her wariness of the advance of time and of the violence of change. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923673
ISBN
9780813923673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.39

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643106
ISBN
9780691643106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.20

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645094
ISBN
9780691645094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.83

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691615721
ISBN
9780691615721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.75
€ 42.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901619
ISBN
9780226901619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.00
€ 37.26

Hardcover. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. Editor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T.; Liu, Lydia H. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 620 pages, 94 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
620
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010987
ISBN
9780674010987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.86
€ 55.84

Paperback. Provides the first sustained modern critical reading of Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, placing this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries: art journals, liberal and working-class periodicals, and popular criticism. In re-creating the intellectual climate, she demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938844
ISBN
9780813938844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512. 272 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSK; JFC. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 23. Weight: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
1st
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157421
ISBN
9780231157421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.56
€ 73.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157438
ISBN
9780231157438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.02

Hardback. Linking narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory, this text explores the place of homosexuality, in particular the lesbian, in the tradition of the Western narrative. The author shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104364
ISBN
9780231104364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.47
€ 85.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443626
ISBN
9780801443626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Hardback. Encompassing discussion of more than two hundred individual poems, this study offers a coherent framework for understanding the body of work created by a major, late twentieth-century poet. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472530
ISBN
9781611472530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.46

Hardback. Exploring as to how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world, this work shows that, there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3D; DSBB; HBG; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st edition
SKU
V9780199262892
ISBN
9780199262892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 338.85

Paperback. Seventy-five writers including Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, Jerry Tempest Williams, Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, and Jane Brox reflect on the power of short works to move, persuade, and change readers. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393326000
ISBN
9780393326000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.59

hardcover. Series: Oxford Studies in the History of English. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFF; CFM; DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PR United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190657802
ISBN
9780190657802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.44

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