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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2003rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333557211
ISBN
9780333557211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardcover. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333557204
ISBN
9780333557204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Mallett, Phillip. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403902580
ISBN
9781403902580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Paperback. This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. * Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. * Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period. Editor(s): Pulsiano, Phillip; Treharne, Elaine M. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 552 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 954.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405176095
ISBN
9781405176095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.45

Hardback. This is the first book in the English language devoted to an analysis of the work ofthe Mozambican author Mia Couto. The book provides essential background details about Mozambican political and cultural history. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482102
ISBN
9781611482102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.19

Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482881
ISBN
9781611482881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.16

Hardback. This book offers an original orientation to how speculative thinking may be profoundly stimulated through intermediating engagements with the work of art. The author illustrates the practical implications of this orientation. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472820
ISBN
9781611472820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.40

Hardcover. Introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. This work presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. It introduces debates about how to read this literature. It discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405108652
ISBN
9781405108652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.87

Paperback. This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish--speaking Latin America. aeo Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. aeo Introduces debates about how to read this literature. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405108669
ISBN
9781405108669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816616985
ISBN
9780816616985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. Philostratus's writings embody the height of the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE. Heroicus is a vineyard conversation about the beauty, continuing powers, and worship of the Homeric heroes. Gymnasticus is the sole surviving ancient treatise on sports, which reshapes conventional ideas about the athletic body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 506 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 128 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996748
ISBN
9780674996748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.92

Hardback. A study traces the tendentiousness of Greek representations by introducing comparative Egyptian material, thus interrogating the Greek texts and authors from a cross-cultural perspective. Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228207
ISBN
9780520228207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.05
€ 49.38

Paperback. Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, but there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a Mixture looks at characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, who display autistic traits. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JM; MJN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843104995
ISBN
9781843104995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401104
ISBN
9781474401104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 103.50

Hardback. An analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf and Stevie Smith debated the "justness" of World War II. This book questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333721957
ISBN
9780333721957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 227.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2. BIC Classification: DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801496981
ISBN
9780801496981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AMK; AMX; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
Publisher
Unbound
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783523801
ISBN
9781783523801
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.62

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403999948
ISBN
9781403999948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardback. This work examines the notion of Europe as expressed in Romanian and British fiction. It surveys symbolic notions of the common cultural links which seem to embody "European identity". In particular, the author examines the shift in post-Iron Curtain literary concepts of this ancient identity. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVWR; DSB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761817468
ISBN
9780761817468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763502443
ISBN
9788763502443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.30

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