Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead'. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615889
- ISBN
- 9780748615889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.91€ 114.36
€ 124.91
€ 114.36
Paperback. 1. A new collection of philosophical essays by one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Explores the work of important figures in twentieth--century philosophy and theology, such as Karl Jaspers and Gerschom Scholem 3. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of contemporary philosophy and theology. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745625522
- ISBN
- 9780745625522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardcover. Oscar Wilde's wit is foundational to his works, from his plays and novels to his self-defense at his trials. This book is a comprehensive account of Oscar Wilde's wit that focuses on discovering reasons for his critical success and ongoing legacy. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488480
- ISBN
- 9781137488480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary feminists, that George Eliot was more radical and more feminist than commonly thought. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487844
- ISBN
- 9781349487844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary feminists, that George Eliot was more radical and more feminist than commonly thought. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406149
- ISBN
- 9781137406149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857282965
- ISBN
- 9780857282965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349044382
- ISBN
- 9781349044382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.70
€ 71.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892540518
- ISBN
- 9780892540518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.13
€ 25.99
€ 23.13
paperback. Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 214 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Civitas Books United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465036820
- ISBN
- 9780465036820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.18
€ 38.18
Hardback. This examination of his fiction and non-fiction reveals Huxley's significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion, science and literature, and provides examples of the transmission or refraction of knowledge from one discourse to another. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333637678
- ISBN
- 9780333637678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; 2GJ; CBX; CFB; CFGA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436163
- ISBN
- 9781349436163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSBH; DSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403970091
- ISBN
- 9781403970091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 46.83
€ 53.46
€ 46.83
Paperback. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294. Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. 200 pages. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619661
- ISBN
- 9780230619661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.46€ 45.89
€ 53.46
€ 45.89
Hardcover. (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198146025
- ISBN
- 9780198146025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.93
€ 53.93
Paperback. Offers an interpretation of the poetic work of one of the important Spanish poets of the 20th century, Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958). This lyrical production of this author covers the first half of the 20th century and develops from aestheticist fin de siecle poetry to abstract, quasi-religious writing at the end of his life. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763536479
- ISBN
- 9788763536479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. The Twilight Symbols is a rich A to Z guide of symbols in the Twilight Saga that will lead you to discover whole new worlds, both real and mystical. It will delight and inform Twilight fans, symbol seekers, and the keenest literature detectives. Num Pages: 478 pages. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780994352
- ISBN
- 9781780994352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.80
€ 30.99
€ 26.80
Hardcover. This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224612
- ISBN
- 9780230224612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70
hardcover. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802035400
- ISBN
- 9780802035400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.88
€ 62.88
Hardback. At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482218
- ISBN
- 9781611482218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.07
€ 132.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403933140
- ISBN
- 9781403933140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. In these essays, McMaster's recurring concern is with the interpenetration of intelligence with emotion among Austen's characters. The book explores Austen's popularity in our culture and then moves on to an examination of all the novels, of the operation of love and the articulation of desire. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333599266
- ISBN
- 9780333599266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843269
- ISBN
- 9781843843269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.65
€ 80.65
Hardback. A second edition of this text, studying the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Carroll's 'Alice' books changed writing for and about children, causing repercussions for subsequent children's writers and for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Dusinberre connects books for children with developments in education. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333759844
- ISBN
- 9780333759844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.77
€ 128.77
Paperback. Virginia Woolf's search, in "The Common Reader" and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women is explored in this text. The book also discusses writers such as Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681046
- ISBN
- 9780333681046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48