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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935058
ISBN
9780813935058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.54

Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935065
ISBN
9780813935065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.88

Hardback. Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics-what used to be known as "natural philosophy"-and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248654
ISBN
9780812248654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.61

Paperback. A Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy s work by thirty of the world s most distinguished Hardy scholars. Editor(s): Wilson, Keith. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 246 x 22. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118307496
ISBN
9781118307496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.62

Hardback. Investigates H G Wells' interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. This book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of Wells' texts. It focuses on contemporary film-making in dialogue with his ideas. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846310591
ISBN
9781846310591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.46

Paperback. Building on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Editor(s): Walker, Keith; Fisher, Nicholas. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118438794
ISBN
9781118438794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.01

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636139
ISBN
9780691636139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.96
€ 155.96

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691607573
ISBN
9780691607573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 64.29

Paperback. This accessible satellite textbook is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on fiction. It combines activities, commentaries and suggestions for further reading. Series: Intertext. Num Pages: 132 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; CF; DSA; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
132
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415145992
ISBN
9780415145992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.50

Paperback. .
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472033560
ISBN
9780472033560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.70

Hardback. Emotion as Meaning offers a new model of the mind based upon a new understanding of emotion. It resolves the debate between the imagists and the propositionalists by tracing the translation of language into vicarious experience, showing that the mind represents the imagined world by means of not only image and idea, but emotion. Num Pages: 301 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481679
ISBN
9781611481679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.71

Paperback. Such Stuff as Dreams explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers. In this ground-breaking work, Oatley richly illustrates how fiction represents, at its core, a model that readers construct in collaboration with the writer. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470974575
ISBN
9780470974575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.17

paperback. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, this title examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822315667
ISBN
9780822315667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardcover. Keith May discusses parallels between Nietzsche and these four authors, emphasizing order of rank in Yeats; the qualities of Rilke's Angels as compared with those of the overman; Mann's explorations of the spiritual territory beyond good and evil, and Lawrence's treatment of will to power. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1988th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333392706
ISBN
9780333392706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Paperback. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O'Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
new ed of 2nd revised ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184875
ISBN
9781859184875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 21.31

Paperback. The faith of Charles Dickens, the most influential and popular author of the Victorian era. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGX; DSK; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Lion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745968513
ISBN
9780745968513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Keith Douglas (1920-1944) began writing when he was at school at Christ's Hospital School, London, continued at Oxford, and thereafter in the army and in the Middle East. This title presents a selection of his work. Editor(s): Hughes, Ted. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 120 x 6. Weight in Grams: 56.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230389
ISBN
9780571230389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. For historians William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify their occupation of the throne; a blessing because without Shakespeare's 8-play history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their existence. Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 b & w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781554159
ISBN
9781781554159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.06

Paperback. Henry VI was weak and feeble, but his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a formidable political force in her own right. The dynastic struggle that became known as the Wars of the Roses brought the usurpation of Edward IV, the humiliation and exile of Margaret, and the murder of Henry in the Tower of London. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781554692
ISBN
9781781554692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.06

Paperback. From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071959
ISBN
9780252071959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

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