Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. * Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Editor(s): Quintero, Ruben. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 624 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1226.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405119559
- ISBN
- 9781405119559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.16
€ 201.16
Paperback. Translator(s): Parkinson, R. B. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555628
- ISBN
- 9780199555628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61
Hardcover. Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. Editor(s): Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Scottish Text Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897976395
- ISBN
- 9781897976395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 49.52
€ 52.99
€ 49.52
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371372
- ISBN
- 9781349371372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333189
- ISBN
- 9781349333189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Geddes & Grosset (New Lanark)
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KAK0010916
- ISBN
- 9781842051542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351787
- ISBN
- 9781349351787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
hardcover. Editor(s): Robbins, R. Num Pages: 260 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312231699
- ISBN
- 9780312231699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardback. The Extension of Life studies ten American novels from such authors has Capote, Bellow, and Kingsolver, in the light of theories of narration and of the recent debate of the nature of fiction. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472615
- ISBN
- 9781611472615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.79
€ 109.79
Hardback. Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offering a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation, this book traces the poet's literary influence on later authors and his impact on the arts. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159494
- ISBN
- 9781405159494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.71
€ 42.99
€ 42.71
Paperback. Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; APF; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351114
- ISBN
- 9781349351114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537228
- ISBN
- 9781349537228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. "In association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." Editor(s): Balfour, Robert J. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319558
- ISBN
- 9781349319558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.88
€ 61.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349380169
- ISBN
- 9781349380169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. Editor(s): Palmer, R. Barton; Conner, Marc C. Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 18 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; APFA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319409276
- ISBN
- 9783319409276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.54
€ 130.54
Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as hebroadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches." Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291496
- ISBN
- 9781349291496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108684
- ISBN
- 9780230108684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455246
- ISBN
- 9781137455246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Hardback. He argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879777
- ISBN
- 9780801879777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.02€ 52.44
€ 58.02
€ 52.44