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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A collection of eleven stories, a play and five poems. The authors featured were all influenced by "Akai Tori" (Red Bird), a Tokyo children's literary magazine and also wrote for adult audiences. The stories are striking in that they differ little in style and content from those written for adults. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 5AF; DQ; DSY; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780765605566
ISBN
9780765605566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.34

Hardcover. A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century. Editor(s): Huang, Yunte. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393239485
ISBN
9780393239485
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.57

Hardback. An almanac that deals with the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Editor(s): Leving, Yuri. Num Pages: 326 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235193
ISBN
9781936235193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.79

Hardback. Features a systematisation of the main available data on Nabokov's complex Russian novel, "The Gift" (1934-1939). This title outlines the basic properties of "The Gift" ( plot, characters, style, and motifs) and reconstructs its internal chronology. It describes the creation of the novel and the history of its publication. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843116
ISBN
9781934843116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.63

Hardback. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 140. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424259
ISBN
9780857424259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.43

Hardback. Translator(s): Rogers, Hoyt. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424242
ISBN
9780857424242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.39

Paperback. This bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, includes an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation. Translator(s): Naughton, John T. Num Pages: 192 pages, x, 180 p. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064482
ISBN
9780226064482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Hardback. Yves Bonnefoy is considered as foremost French poet of his generation. This title features both epigrammatic concision and narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. It also includes Bonnefoy childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverley Bie. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422279
ISBN
9780857422279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.22

Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823239153
ISBN
9780823239153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.28

hardcover. This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico. Series: Culture and Politics Series. Num Pages: 170 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742511279
ISBN
9780742511279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.32

Hardback. InImages of Matter, a collection of essays first presented at the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, the contributors address the complex relationship between words and images. Editor(s): Bruce, Yvonne. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611492668
ISBN
9781611492668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.46

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747571124
ISBN
9780747571124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BJ; DSBH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431424863
ISBN
9781431424863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.60

Hardcover. This book demonstrates how the competitive context in which Athenian comic drama was performed shaped the poetry and plots of Aristophanes' plays. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521764070
ISBN
9780521764070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Hardback. The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770170
ISBN
9780804770170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.98

Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988917
ISBN
9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.15

Hardback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988900
ISBN
9780295988900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.94

paperback. This is the first book to survey all of Klein's poetry, prose, and journalism, published and unpublished, and place it in the context of its times. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802072344
ISBN
9780802072344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.76

Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325680
ISBN
9780822325680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. An historical and political reading of late-nineteenth-century British novels by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. A. Henty, and Sarah Grand. Examines how these novels represent the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823241996
ISBN
9780823241996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.45

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