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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. .
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910996089
ISBN
9781910996089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. Editor(s): Tilley, Christopher. Num Pages: 372 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631172857
ISBN
9780631172857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.18

Paperback. Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes of visual memory, implicit knowledge, and mnemonic formats in order to better understand descriptive and ekphrastic passages. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
566
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067110
ISBN
9780674067110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. Presents essays that reflect the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. This book opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics that provides an overview of the whole period. It surveys the variety of styles in Victorian poetry and focuses on the means of its production and distribution. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard; Harrison, Antony H.; Chapman, Alison. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 176 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1256.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631222071
ISBN
9780631222071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 215.73

Paperback. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard; Harrison, Antony H.; Chapman, Alison. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 256 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405176125
ISBN
9781405176125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.05

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and inscribed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KEX0280943
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
9780853239475
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Sharples, R. W. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856684760
ISBN
9780856684760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.17

Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
SKU
V9780856682513
ISBN
9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Cindy; Looby, Christopher. Num Pages: 440 pages, B&W Illus.: ,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156172
ISBN
9780231156172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719095498
ISBN
9780719095498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.47

Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847675330
ISBN
9781847675330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.49

Hardback. Complicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419930
ISBN
9781421419930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 47.39

Paperback. This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars. Editor(s): McEachern, Claire. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 321 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
321
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107643321
ISBN
9781107643321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.57

paperback. Get everything you need to achieve your full potential at English Literature A Level or AS with York Notes Study Guides, now updated for Assessment Objectives 1 to 5. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK; DSRC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 212 x 297 x 11. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Pearson Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781292138190
ISBN
9781292138190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. This book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474423168
ISBN
9781474423168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Hardcover. Brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. This volume contains self-narratives that propel themselves and their authors to the centre of critical debates concerning the status of the subject, the nature of self-representation, the globalisation of the regional, and more. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778387110
ISBN
9788778387110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.13

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135308
ISBN
9781571135308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Num Pages: 441 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552. 448 pages. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
441
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230249080
ISBN
9780230249080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.29
€ 113.78

Paperback. Focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. This title unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading. Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851687305
ISBN
9781851687305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 4KHT; DSK; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Pearson York Notes
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582772717
ISBN
9780582772717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.33

Hardback. In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volume read Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new perspectives on affect in her work. Editor(s): Hanson, Clare (University of Southampton, UK); Kimber, Senior Lecturer Gerri (University of Northampton); Martin, Professor W Todd (Huntington University). Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1M; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474417532
ISBN
9781474417532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.99

Paperback. A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349167
ISBN
9780822349167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226085838
ISBN
9780226085838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.92

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