Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
hardcover. In the Ming and Qing periods, the Chinese read fiction in editions with commentary printed on the same page. This book investigates the influence of traditional Chinese commentary on fiction and on the way Chinese fiction was written. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3H; 3J; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727204
- ISBN
- 9780804727204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.31
€ 111.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publisher
- Duquesne University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704746
- ISBN
- 9780820704746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.42€ 55.20
€ 65.42
€ 55.20
Hardback. Editor(s): Rolston, David L. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 554 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 554
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635422
- ISBN
- 9780691635422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 290.34
€ 290.34
Paperback. Provides fresh new translations of Native oral literatures of the American Southwest, a region of vital and varied cultures and languages. The collection features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups: Yuman, Nadine (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. Editor(s): Kozak, David L. Series: Native Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 696 pages, 6 illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2JN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 954.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 696
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803215757
- ISBN
- 9780803215757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.97
€ 84.97
Hardback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JMH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450076
- ISBN
- 9781845450076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.62
€ 163.62
Paperback. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153162
- ISBN
- 9780691153162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Hardback. This is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, "What is an author?" It examines the relationship between personal identity, and the public's perception of the 'author' via the reception of written texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBW; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723008
- ISBN
- 9780804723008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.28
€ 106.28
Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405157575
- ISBN
- 9781405157575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.47€ 153.84
€ 182.47
€ 153.84
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634876
- ISBN
- 9780691634876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.42
€ 147.42
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691606033
- ISBN
- 9780691606033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.77
€ 46.99
€ 33.77
Paperback. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, this book outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genre. It examines the psychology and cultural background underlying works of mourning. It explores how the modern elegy has evolved, and how it differs from 'canonical elegy'. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415367776
- ISBN
- 9780415367776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.82
€ 29.82
Hardcover. Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010 presents the history and current state of a critically neglected, significant body of contemporary writing and places it within the wider social and political contexts of the period. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319778
- ISBN
- 9781846319778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.77
€ 139.77
Paperback. A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships Editor(s): Hemenway, R. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087204
- ISBN
- 9780472087204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.22
€ 31.99
€ 28.22
paperback. The relationship between fiction and historiography in Francoist Spain (1939-1975) is a contentious one. Making a decisive intervention in the debate about the ways in which narration determines both the meaning and truth of history and fiction, this title is of interest to students of politics, history, and literature of twentieth-century Spain. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315971
- ISBN
- 9780822315971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
Paperback. By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; DSBF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748664894
- ISBN
- 9780748664894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.69
€ 33.99
€ 30.69
Hardback. The Alexander Romance, a fabulous pseudo-history of the life of Alexander the Great compiled in late Antiquity, was one of the most popular secular texts in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its subsequent influence on the development of French and German literature has been significant. Num Pages: 428 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 160. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Pindar Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907132264
- ISBN
- 9780907132264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Hardback. An autobiographical journey through disparate written texts (in literature, philosophy, theology and religion), art, and cinema. It pursues the body of the Christian tradition of 'the Word made flesh' - a body torn and crucified, resurrected, and divinised, embracing both deep suffering and profound joy. Num Pages: 260 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602581418
- ISBN
- 9781602581418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Hardcover. A bibliographical catalogue of the works of Henry James, David J Supino that includes a transcription of the title page, collations, contents, binding, inserted ads, bookplates, binders' and booksellers' tickets, and a full description of dustjackets. Num Pages: 684 pages, 32 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318627
- ISBN
- 9781846318627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.01
€ 206.01
Hardback. Close reading and analysis of ten major life stories, from Mohandas Gandhi and Black Elk to Dorothy Day, Malcolm X, and Rigoberta Menchu. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB; HRAB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823219933
- ISBN
- 9780823219933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.07
€ 94.07
Paperback. Series: Modern Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140. .
- Publisher
- MPT Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954536756
- ISBN
- 9780954536756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.44
€ 15.99
€ 14.44