Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts. Editor(s): Copeland, Rebecca; Ortabasi, Melek. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137751
- ISBN
- 9780231137751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754443
- ISBN
- 9780838754443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11
€ 104.11
Hardback. Thoreau's encounters with nature, the author argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoureau and modern contemporaries. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; HPCD; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521407
- ISBN
- 9780742521407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.44
€ 162.44
Paperback. "This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned sacred texts. Editor(s): Lemon, Rebecca; Mason, Emma; Roberts, Jonathan; Rowland, Christopher. Num Pages: 714 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 246 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470674994
- ISBN
- 9780470674994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.81
€ 50.99
€ 50.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801474491
- ISBN
- 9780801474491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. A play that features no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. Full of passion, pathos and sly humour, it is set in the hip art scene of London's East End. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571302918
- ISBN
- 9780571302918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.04
€ 23.99
€ 16.04
Paperback. A celebration of George Eliot's life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and love Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847085160
- ISBN
- 9781847085160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784991036
- ISBN
- 9781784991036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.98
€ 37.98
Hardcover. Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630593
- ISBN
- 9780815630593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.02
€ 43.02
Hardcover. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479828869
- ISBN
- 9781479828869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.43
€ 96.43
Hardback. Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Aelfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650589
- ISBN
- 9781442650589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Paperback. This practical book demystifies the processes of academic writing through careful explanation and a series of engaging and practical examples. Editor(s): Stott, Rebecca; Rylance, Rick; Snaith, Anna. Series: Speak-Write Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBW; DSB; JNZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582382442
- ISBN
- 9780582382442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.52
€ 41.52
Paperback. Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. This title scrutinizes Murakami's fictional worlds and their extraliterary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060760
- ISBN
- 9780674060760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.53
€ 27.99
€ 24.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; DSBD; DSK; HBT; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801441431
- ISBN
- 9780801441431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Hardback. Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130202
- ISBN
- 9781405130202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.19
€ 110.19
Paperback. A wide-ranging exploration of the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Broad in its scope and ambition. Features essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy. Considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history. Editor(s): Bushnell, Rebecca W. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1040.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192460
- ISBN
- 9781405192460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.90
€ 63.90
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165945
- ISBN
- 9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.16
€ 56.16
Paperback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137515
- ISBN
- 9780231137515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137508
- ISBN
- 9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.58€ 79.12
€ 104.58
€ 79.12
Paperback. "York Notes Advanced" aim to help make the study of literature more fulfilling and lead to exam success. They should also be of interest to the general reader, as they cover the widest range of popular literature titles. This title covers "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 147 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582772311
- ISBN
- 9780582772311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. The York Notes series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World. This text covers the selected poems of Sylvia Plath. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582424777
- ISBN
- 9780582424777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 213 x 298 x 10. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447982241
- ISBN
- 9781447982241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.86
€ 11.99
€ 11.86
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; 4KL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 175.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582414716
- ISBN
- 9780582414716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. This is the best translation of Sir Gawain Gordon Teskey, Cornell University Translator(s): Winny, James. Num Pages: 192 pages, Plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780921149927
- ISBN
- 9780921149927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.97
€ 25.99
€ 19.97