Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Editor(s): Portillo, Isabel Jaen; Simon, Julien Jacques. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSA; DSBD; HPM; JMR; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415785471
- ISBN
- 9780415785471
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€ 160.43€ 141.40
€ 160.43
€ 141.40
Hardback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729475
- ISBN
- 9780804729475
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Condition: New
€ 162.03
€ 162.03
paperback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804729482
- ISBN
- 9780804729482
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644288
- ISBN
- 9780691644288
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Condition: New
€ 220.98
€ 220.98
Paperback. The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Translator(s): Sayers Peden, Margaret. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007163106
- ISBN
- 9780007163106
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.45
€ 15.99
€ 11.45
Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cu...
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Hardback. This work is an English translation of the author's own work on the shishosetsu, a genre in Japanese literature. It provides a means of researching and interpreting the tradition of the genre, linking it to forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to classical cultural assumptions. Translator(s): Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Professor of Japanese Literature, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 720.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674773196
- ISBN
- 9780674773196
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€ 51.99€ 42.90
€ 51.99
€ 42.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626001
- ISBN
- 9783837626001
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.94
€ 51.99
€ 36.94
Hardback. By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period. Series: Medicine and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867828
- ISBN
- 9780801867828
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Condition: New
€ 64.33
€ 64.33
Hardcover. A collection of essays that ranges from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It examines how obligatory state service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. Series: Ars Rossika. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235513
- ISBN
- 9781936235513
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Condition: New
€ 148.44
€ 148.44
Hardback. This text studies the work and methods of 18th-century Russian poet Vasilii Trediakovsky. This material is used to detect mythological patterns in accounts of the past - in this case 18th-century Russian literature - and to investigate the role of mythmaking in modern cultural consciousness. Num Pages: 332 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718240
- ISBN
- 9780804718240
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Condition: New
€ 105.93
€ 105.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801453342
- ISBN
- 9780801453342
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Condition: New
€ 47.61
€ 47.61
Paperback. This work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226815350
- ISBN
- 9780226815350
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235421
- ISBN
- 9781936235421
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Condition: New
€ 130.77€ 127.45
€ 130.77
€ 127.45
Paperback. A collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dos-toevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov. It offers novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolito and "The Idiot" to "Doctor Zhivago". Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843406
- ISBN
- 9781934843406
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Condition: New
€ 137.75
€ 137.75
Hardcover. The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 701.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804719353
- ISBN
- 9780804719353
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Condition: New
€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Paperback. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. This title offers study of translation that is shown to be a powerful tool for study of Modern Greek literature and its relation to other literatures and movements of time. Series: Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, tables and graphs. BIC Classification: CB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 277 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Verlag Peter Lang
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783039119189
- ISBN
- 9783039119189
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Condition: New
€ 85.49
€ 85.49
Paperback. Everywhere you turn today, someone is talking to you - the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone. This book reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 285 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803278011
- ISBN
- 9780803278011
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Explores the influence of Shakespeare on American musical theatre through analyses of five important productions from 1938 through 1971. This book offers a fresh look at the development of American musical theatre and an understanding of Shakespeare in the modern American context. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGM; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221520
- ISBN
- 9780253221520
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century AD ...
Iravatham . Ed(S): Mahadevan
Hardcover. Including texts, transliteration, translation and detailed commentary, this volume presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (circa 2nd century BC to 6th century AD), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. Editor(s): Mahadevan, Iravatham. Translator(s): Mahadevan, Iravatham. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 720 pages, 54 plates, 174 figures, glossary, indexes. BIC Classification: 1F; 2BRT; 3D; CFL; DQ; DSBB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 219 x 49. Weight in Grams: 2540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012271
- ISBN
- 9780674012271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.81€ 71.58
€ 74.81
€ 71.58
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781588140166
- ISBN
- 9781588140166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.84€ 89.80
€ 118.84
€ 89.80