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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, the author presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571227495
ISBN
9780571227495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.59

hardcover. The "angel of the house" is a critical commonplace in studies of the 19th-century woman. Through readings of Victorian gothic and "sensation" fiction, this book interrogates current feminist assumptions about the relation of women to the private sphere. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Edition
1992nd Edition
SKU
V9780333566152
ISBN
9780333566152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.81

Hardback. This work rescues from undeserved neglect the American-born English author Pearl Craigie, who published as John Oliver Hobbes. It traces Craigies crowded external and inner lives and her connections with many well-known people. Num Pages: 541 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 921.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
541
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471281
ISBN
9781611471281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.49

Hardback. Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual abuse, the autobiography is widely read in high schools and colleges across the country. This title includes discussions of Maya Angelou's novel. Series: Critical Insights. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Salem Press Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587656248
ISBN
9781587656248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.31

Paperback. Introduces Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. This title is about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and within the space of a year and a half. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FC; FJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803297418
ISBN
9780803297418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.27

Hardback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230297906
ISBN
9780230297906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.82

Paperback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334308
ISBN
9781349334308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.74

Hardcover. Considers three distinct stages of travelogue - the pre-Revolution travelogue focused on first encounters with American democracy, the post-Revolution travelogue concerned with incorporating conceptions of America into the fashioning of the new Soviet state, and the more documentary-minded travelogues of the post-1930's. Num Pages: 389 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804705
ISBN
9780875804705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.91

Paperback. A masterclass in attentive reading offering brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748647286
ISBN
9780748647286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.47

Translator(s): Miller, Andrew M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DC; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872202924
ISBN
9780872202924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.28
€ 42.50

Hardback. Michael Butor was thematically concerned with changes in space and time and the artist's dilemma in recreating reality. This title is a study of Michael Butor's collaboration with three visual artists, specifically those in which the artwork preceded the text and thus provided Butor with inspiration for his texts. Num Pages: 239 pages, 74ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838639191
ISBN
9780838639191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.97

Paperback. Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349442348
ISBN
9781349442348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.75

Hardback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732437
ISBN
9780804732437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.10

Editor(s): Miller, R. Baxter. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813114361
ISBN
9780813114361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.95

Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224933
ISBN
9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.51

Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270627
ISBN
9781137270627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 43.97

Paperback. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137385475
ISBN
9781137385475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.68

Hardback. * Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth--century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. * Offers an innovative way into understanding modern critical thought. * Spans the period from Marx to the present day. * A conversation of ideas emerges between one generation and the next. Editor(s): Milne, Drew. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220589
ISBN
9780631220589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Sapientia Press
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589337
ISBN
9781932589337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.53

Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354383
ISBN
9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

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