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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A skilled study in which each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry, showing that the power of language depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means. The author argues that poetry is its own best enemy. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 181 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
n Later printing
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226492506
ISBN
9780226492506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Wall, Eamonn. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781851320516
ISBN
9781851320516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Wall, Eamonn. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
9781851320448
ISBN
9781851320448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times' Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719566813
ISBN
9780719566813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Hardcover. In the first two essays in this volume - "The Age of Dobie" and "The Age of McMurtry" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652887
ISBN
9780875652887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.02

Hardback. This book focuses on specific moments of deliberated decision in the epic poems of Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. By exploring the difference between Aristotle's notion of proairesis and structuralist literary critics' use of the term, the author argues that decision making provides a link between ethical structures and narrative forms. Num Pages: 196 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136357
ISBN
9780874136357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.82

Hardback. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801898747
ISBN
9780801898747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.03
€ 71.61

hardcover. This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain issues, such as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works, which have been largely ignored by post-structuralist literary critics. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812231274
ISBN
9780812231274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.38

Hardback. Shakespeare is worth reading because his works help us to make epistemological weakness into a way of life. Kuzner shows how Shakespeare's works offer a means for coming to terms with basic uncertainties about freedom, the world's abundance, and the demands of love and social life. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HPK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269938
ISBN
9780823269938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

Hardback. James Kearney engages with recent work in the history of the book and the history of religion to investigate the crisis of the book occasioned by the Reformation's simultaneous faith in text and distrust of material forms. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812241587
ISBN
9780812241587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Hardback. This is the second volume of a comprehensive, fully annotated, edition of Robinson and Una Jeffers' correspondence. Editor(s): Karman, James. Num Pages: 1128 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 178 x 71. Weight in Grams: 1932.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777032
ISBN
9780804777032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.33

Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801883026
ISBN
9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.21
€ 57.22

Paperback. One of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Stronly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Editor(s): Johnson, Jeri. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780199536443
ISBN
9780199536443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.61

paperback. Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914. Editor(s): Norris, Margot. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 412 pages, 8 maps; 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Norton
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393978513
ISBN
9780393978513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 13. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Publication date
1990
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553213805
ISBN
9780553213805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.76

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
816
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679600114
ISBN
9780679600114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.27

Paperback. One of the greatest artistic works of the twentieth century, Finnegans Wake is both an outrageous epic and a wildly inventive comedy that rewards its readers with never-ending layers of meaning. This edition helps readers get past its reputation for difficulty in order to enjoy its astonishing originality and imaginative achievement. Editor(s): Henkes, Robbert-Jan; Bindervoet, Erik; Fordham, Finn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJG; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199695157
ISBN
9780199695157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. .
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811229
ISBN
9781554811229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.71

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; 3H; DSBB; DSC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645551
ISBN
9780691645551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.16

Hardback. Borrowing theories of psychoanalysis, gender, performance, and Cuban literature and historiography, The Logic of Fetishism argues that the structure of disavowal functions as a creative alternative to the all-encompassing meta-narratives of exile and insularity. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482089
ISBN
9781611482089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.73

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 3B; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635286
ISBN
9780691635286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.84

Paperback. This book explores actors' systems of intellectual property in early modern England. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other plays, James Marino demonstrates how Shakespeare's company asserted ownership of its plays through intense ongoing revision and through insistent attribution to Shakespeare. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222548
ISBN
9780812222548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936833
ISBN
9780813936833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Hardcover. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936826
ISBN
9780813936826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.48

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