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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Situated at an intersection of feminist critical practice in the United States and feminist cultural theory in France, this book is an investigation of the way in which SarrauteOs first eight works problematize certain feminist literary analyses, especially in relation to lOecriture feminine. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480726
ISBN
9781611480726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.76

paperback. Examines Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatric and cinematic avant-gardes. This book explores her development of a playwriting aesthetic based in avant-garde drama, cinema, and queer identity. Series: Studies in Modern Drama. Num Pages: 220 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415977234
ISBN
9780415977234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478352
ISBN
9780801478352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. In this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041339
ISBN
9780226041339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312158422
ISBN
9780312158422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book, now in paperback and with a new Preface, assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230346437
ISBN
9780230346437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

Hardcover. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507845
ISBN
9780230507845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230244238
ISBN
9780230244238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Covington explores the manner in which the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness was claimed by a range of discourses in a century of turbulence and change. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616011
ISBN
9780230616011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. .
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089642936
ISBN
9789089642936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.38

Hardcover. This title examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, the book links together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2002nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918753
ISBN
9780333918753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Paperback. Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression. This title examines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and English. It explores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singers. Editor(s): Dunnigan, Sarah; Gilbert, Suzanne. Series Editor(s): Brown, Ian; Clancy, Thomas Owen. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748645398
ISBN
9780748645398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081927
ISBN
9780252081927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040467
ISBN
9780252040467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

hardcover. The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758772
ISBN
9780804758772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.95

Paperback. This book examines the ways in which Jane Austen's novels offer complex imaginative representations of both the tensions among, and the possibilities for, the practice of both the classical and the theological virtues. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531417
ISBN
9781349531417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969668
ISBN
9781403969668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.74

Hardback. This edition provides a fully annotated text of Sarah Fielding's The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia based on the 1757 edition. It records Fielding's use of Greek and Roman writers, eighteenth-century historians, and Renaissance and Restoration playwrights. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838752579
ISBN
9780838752579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.92

Paperback. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408217252
ISBN
9781408217252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

Hardcover. Disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism'. Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles as well as her novels and short stories, this study examines her engagement with topical issues, assessing the relationship between her life, her times and her art. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333992937
ISBN
9780333992937
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.90

Paperback. Sarah Gamble's compelling study, now available in paperback, disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a materialist and a 'demythologiser' by placing her within the social, political and theoretical context in which she wrote. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580985
ISBN
9780230580985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Paperback. Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325200
ISBN
9780820325200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.76

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472588463
ISBN
9781472588463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.01

Hardcover. A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230577145
ISBN
9780230577145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

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