Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. I remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson singing rousing spirituals from the living room. Afterwards my chin was strangely smooth, and seemed to have shrunk. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781770091443
- ISBN
- 9781770091443
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.75
€ 13.99
€ 12.75
Hardcover. Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674430662
- ISBN
- 9780674430662
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.32
€ 47.99
€ 39.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 108. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475450
- ISBN
- 9780801475450
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.06
€ 41.99
€ 37.06
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691651811
- ISBN
- 9780691651811
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Condition: New
€ 157.59€ 118.15
€ 157.59
€ 118.15
Hardcover. This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature. * Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry. Editor(s): DeMaria, Robert; Brown, Robert D. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1088.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405112932
- ISBN
- 9781405112932
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Condition: New
€ 150.40
€ 150.40
Hardback. Containing 17 essays by 16 contemporary literary critics, this text presents late-1990s thinking of 17th- to 18th-century literature. It aims to help students and teachers find new approaches to central canonical works and also provides introductions to several of the less well known writers. Editor(s): Robert Demaria., Prof (Vassar College, New York USA). Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 684.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197393
- ISBN
- 9780631197393
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Condition: New
€ 141.12
€ 141.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 appendixes, index. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780803284395
- ISBN
- 9780803284395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.87
€ 74.87
Paperback. Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582414570
- ISBN
- 9780582414570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.28
€ 11.28
Paperback. This series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives to enbable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop critical thinking. This volume explores "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582431423
- ISBN
- 9780582431423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.30
€ 11.30
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781316504802
- ISBN
- 9781316504802
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Condition: New
€ 33.13
€ 33.13
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704492
- ISBN
- 9780198704492
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.43
€ 30.99
€ 29.43
Paperback. At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226498201
- ISBN
- 9780226498201
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.11
€ 40.99
€ 31.11
Hardcover. Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase "the love of literature" as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226183701
- ISBN
- 9780226183701
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Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.33
€ 94.08
€ 77.33
Hardcover. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more. Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 full spread, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pulp/Zest Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936976867
- ISBN
- 9781936976867
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.92
€ 25.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. From the first publication of The Bobsey Twins in 1904 to titles published in 1992, Storey annotates over 300 books that feature twins. An index shows whether the twins are main, secondary, or minor characters. Num Pages: 410 pages, Plans :Includes indexes. BIC Classification: DSY; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810826410
- ISBN
- 9780810826410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.42
€ 146.42
Hardback. A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KOG0000398
- ISBN
- 9781786693228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A critical history of modern Irish literature. Kiberd develops his story through subtle readings of such writers as Joyce, O'Casey, Beckett and Bowen. Giving a controversial interpretation of post-colonial Ireland, he then surveys more recent works, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2CSJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 48. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099582212
- ISBN
- 9780099582212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 14.72
€ 21.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242559
- ISBN
- 9780571242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.81
€ 17.99
€ 12.81
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628921236
- ISBN
- 9781628921236
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.89€ 134.38
€ 152.89
€ 134.38
Hardback. The position of what can be known, or, what cannot be known is foundational to one of the pivotal readings of modernism. Saying that these narratives - the thinking of what constitutes truth and the rethinking of gender - are intertwined, this book suggests that where there is a crisis in knowing, there is also a crisis in gender. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911069
- ISBN
- 9781575911069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.44
€ 115.44
Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926810
- ISBN
- 9780813926810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.12
€ 32.12
Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135940
- ISBN
- 9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.24
€ 113.24
Paperback. Bringing together a wealth of material with clear critical commentary, Debra J. Rosenthal offers the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to study this crucial American novel. Editor(s): Rosenthal, Debra J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415234740
- ISBN
- 9780415234740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.94
€ 29.94
paperback. Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; AC; DSBH; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343103
- ISBN
- 9780822343103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.23
€ 29.99
€ 29.23