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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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