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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898454
ISBN
9780859898454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.79

Paperback. A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. It offers an introduction to the theory and practice of creative-critical writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: CBW; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748674336
ISBN
9780748674336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.09

Hardback. These 11 essays focus on the relationship between literature and field recording (i.e., any recording made outside the studio) and examine the point at which the textual field and soundscape meet. With contributions from composers, writers, critics and sound artists the book combines essays with writing that spans the creative/ critical divide. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474406697
ISBN
9781474406697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.81
€ 103.50

Paperback. Editor(s): Berg, Stephen. Num Pages: 294 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780966491395
ISBN
9780966491395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.45

Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754146
ISBN
9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117676
ISBN
9781551117676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.36

Hardcover. Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the literature of the later GDR. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139535
ISBN
9781571139535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJD1; HBTB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349999965
ISBN
9781349999965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardcover. Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137364425
ISBN
9781137364425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 390 x 37. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737877
ISBN
9780674737877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was an influential poetry critic. This book examines his work, situating him among peers. It examines the social context of his aesthetic choices, examining events ranging from teen culture to the Cuban missile crisis. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125949
ISBN
9780231125949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.19
€ 83.75

Hardback. Demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. This book recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141420
ISBN
9780231141420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.58
€ 57.47

Paperback. This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic among his peers, including Bishop and Arendt, in literature and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125956
ISBN
9780231125956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975210
ISBN
9781555975210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 362 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555976446
ISBN
9781555976446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.50

Hardback. Explores the process involved in reading William Blake's poems. The poems include, on the same pages, verbal and visual texts that often seem to be at odds with one another or even, at times, to be entirely unrelated. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333524848
ISBN
9780333524848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.95

Hardcover. This text examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, showing how both in print materials and extra-literary artifacts her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333695807
ISBN
9780333695807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.19

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719083242
ISBN
9780719083242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403904034
ISBN
9781403904034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Paperback. This book is a history of reading in the British Isles from 1695-1870 that focuses on "common" rather than professional readers and which explores a range of previously undervalued sources. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357574
ISBN
9781349357574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was the first major naturalistic novel in America. Editor(s): Gullason, Thomas A. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393950243
ISBN
9780393950243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631615
ISBN
9780691631615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.54

Paperback. Series: Cornell East Asia. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947662
ISBN
9781933947662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110236
ISBN
9780230110236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

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