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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. This title takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099437093
- ISBN
- 9780099437093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Hardcover. Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541628
- ISBN
- 9781137541628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. Drawing on analyses of earlier and modern psychology, it goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal and Rosalind. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333634486
- ISBN
- 9780333634486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Paperback. Offers a way to think about how the power of poetry, art, and the lyrical imagination illuminate history, trauma, and memory. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226254333
- ISBN
- 9780226254333
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1989
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349198917
- ISBN
- 9781349198917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.08
€ 49.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526121790
- ISBN
- 9781526121790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.49
€ 17.49
Paperback. The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Baumana s writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a summarizing essay and commentary by editor Peter Beilharz. Editor(s): Beilharz, Peter. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631214922
- ISBN
- 9780631214922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
Paperback. A biography of Nikos Kazantzakis. It describes his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. It features his experiments with communism in turbulent Greece, his visits to Soviet Russia, and the publication of his epic "Odyssey" in 1938. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128801
- ISBN
- 9780691128801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's (1883-1957) vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, this title argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius. It covers his life after 1938, the period in which he wrote "Zorba the Greek" and "The Last Temptation of Christ". Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 640 pages, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AHM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 999.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128139
- ISBN
- 9780691128139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.07€ 77.62
€ 101.07
€ 77.62
Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691646664
- ISBN
- 9780691646664
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.71
€ 151.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; APF; AS; D; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349579
- ISBN
- 9781349349579
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Condition: New
€ 65.46
€ 65.46
Hardcover. An in-depth, exhaustive exploration of Bond's output over a fifty-year career, combining rigorous analysis and discussion of plays such as Saved and Innocence. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367395
- ISBN
- 9780230367395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Michigan Classical Press United States
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979971303
- ISBN
- 9780979971303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.26
€ 30.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 183 x 27. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772893525
- ISBN
- 9788772893525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.72€ 53.08
€ 67.72
€ 53.08
Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218390
- ISBN
- 9780230218390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. A revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" or "creativity". Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854597120
- ISBN
- 9781854597120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848424104
- ISBN
- 9781848424104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Part of the Longman Critical Readers series, which explores the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions. This text examines modernist and postmodernist theories in literary criticism. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 280 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582063570
- ISBN
- 9780582063570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois society. It renews once more the complexities and radicalism of the modernist challenge. Num Pages: 223 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJC; 3JJF; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546929
- ISBN
- 9780230546929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardback. This study of urban identity and community looks at selected 20th century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker proposes a "reflexive modernism" which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333801680
- ISBN
- 9780333801680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Paperback. A study of metropolitan identities in literature and film. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSBH; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349421299
- ISBN
- 9781349421299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Paperback. This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama. Num Pages: 251 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; AN; DSBF; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300065534
- ISBN
- 9780300065534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.18
€ 32.99
€ 24.18
Paperback. A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674748927
- ISBN
- 9780674748927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.20
€ 45.20
Paperback. This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them. Num Pages: 212 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075860
- ISBN
- 9780226075860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.23
€ 27.99
€ 23.23