Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804754811
- ISBN
- 9780804754811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.66
€ 34.99
€ 28.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Ellis, Frank H. Num Pages: 266 pages, fig. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9783631546734
- ISBN
- 9783631546734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
€ 12.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Presents a biography of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), who was born in Dublin, of English parents, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. London-based for many years, and a noted satirist during the reign of Queen Anne, he returned to Dublin in 1713 as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral. His popular work "Gulliver's Travels" appeared in 1726. Editor(s): Mahon, Derek. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main - Poet to Poet
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571230716
- ISBN
- 9780571230716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.92
€ 9.99
€ 8.92
hardcover. This volume uses a reading of the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval to elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan. Num Pages: 392 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731225
- ISBN
- 9780804731225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.29
€ 112.29
Paperback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251339
- ISBN
- 9780823251339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251322
- ISBN
- 9780823251322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.33
€ 102.33
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810871823
- ISBN
- 9780810871823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.66
€ 184.66
Hardback. Traces the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within 20th-century American poetry and poetics. Formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book unveils one of important yet largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231447
- ISBN
- 9780823231447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.72
€ 94.72
Paperback. In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. Editor(s): Simons, Jonathan. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. Contemporary Critical Theorists. 288 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Simons, Jonathan. In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight: 438.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639748
- ISBN
- 9780748639748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.69
€ 33.99
€ 30.69
Hardback. Studies the role of mourning in Fitzgerald's work Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910468
- ISBN
- 9781575910468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.22
€ 118.22
Hardback. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero. Num Pages: 208 pages, 26, 23 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBH; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890291
- ISBN
- 9780801890291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.88
€ 59.88
Paperback. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801878909
- ISBN
- 9780801878909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.19
€ 35.99
€ 30.19
Paperback. Tracing their transmission through the ancient, medieval and modern periods, the author further examines questions of later reception and the use made of Homer in colonialism and imperialism. Series: Understanding Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848858633
- ISBN
- 9781848858633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.74
€ 26.99
€ 23.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300212341
- ISBN
- 9780300212341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 136 pages, 12 b/w images. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924329
- ISBN
- 9781628924329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theatre. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252079054
- ISBN
- 9780252079054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. This volume presents a dozen original essays by leading scholars in the fields of the ancient novel, Julio-Claudian culture, and early Roman imperial history, focused on Petronius' fragmentary work The Satyricon. The essays move from literary studies to cultural studies to historical studies. Editor(s): Repath, Ian D. Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118451373
- ISBN
- 9781118451373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.90
€ 44.99
€ 44.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32. BIC Classification: ACXD7; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780801446740
- ISBN
- 9780801446740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.69
€ 52.69
Paperback. A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It deals with de Bernieres' themes, genre and narrative technique, and includes a close reading of the texts that are accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons. Series: Vintage Living Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliog , glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XX) Exams / tests / exercises. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437574
- ISBN
- 9780099437574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.66
€ 9.99
€ 8.66
Hardback. In his second critical study of modern Spanish poetry, Mayhew explores the literary self-consciousness of several major poets - Guillen, Salinas, Aleixandre, Valente, Gil de Biedma, and Guillermo Carnero. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480757
- ISBN
- 9781611480757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.36
€ 110.36