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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349452972
ISBN
9781349452972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

Hardcover. This book reveals fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel in the early modern period. Through fresh interpretations of music, literature, and history it argues that the expulsion of the Muslim population created a historic and artistic aperture that was addressed in new literary forms. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137299925
ISBN
9781137299925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Paperback. Argues that four French writers - Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar - practice "activist writing" which, when combined with the work of certain photographers, reframes a picture of Maghreb produced by two centuries of Orientalist misrepresentation. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742515468
ISBN
9780742515468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; 3JB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801499333
ISBN
9780801499333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Hardback. These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 352 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442645127
ISBN
9781442645127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.68

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 248 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADS; 3JB; ACND; DSBD; DSC; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647558
ISBN
9781442647558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.79

Paperback. Starting with a visit to the British Museum, the authors prompt us to consider the significance of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its value in terms of literature, philosophy, and culture, and its importance as a source of imagery. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AHA; AM; DSBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780192853851
ISBN
9780192853851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. Series: Cambridge School Anthologies. Num Pages: 112 pages, 1 colour book. BIC Classification: 4KHN; 5AM; DSG; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 246 x 190 x 6. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521598750
ISBN
9780521598750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.27

Paperback. In this text, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of heroic identity began to dominate English culture. Num Pages: 144 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226725734
ISBN
9780226725734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.08

Paperback. This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place "Mizora" and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628392
ISBN
9780815628392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.63

Paperback. This study sets up in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and some of the writers who fascinated him--T.E. Lawrence, Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Tournier, Beckett--using a transversal theme of travel and movement. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355174
ISBN
9781349355174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Hardback. Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517530
ISBN
9780230517530
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardback. Essayists in this collection break down the vital relationship between reading and space in medieval culture. A variety of approaches are employed to discuss the topic including literary analysis and contemporary film and architectural theory, in turn, complicating the notion of the stable, fixed text and reader. Editor(s): Griffin, Carrie. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137428615
ISBN
9781137428615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.63

Hardcover. This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603257
ISBN
9780230603257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardback. In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602977
ISBN
9780230602977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843603
ISBN
9781843843603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Hardback. The story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803230118
ISBN
9780803230118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135568
ISBN
9781571135568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
626
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781108038393
ISBN
9781108038393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.33
€ 34.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
614
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781108038379
ISBN
9781108038379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.56

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