Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
hardcover. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802090317
- ISBN
- 9780802090317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.70
€ 110.70
Paperback. Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and post-colonial periods, this book analyzes the ways in which Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist discourse pivoted on such concepts as language, literature, and culture. Series: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSA; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289857
- ISBN
- 9780520289857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.82
€ 40.99
€ 28.82
Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DS; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088412
- ISBN
- 9780674088412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.43
€ 45.99
€ 37.43
hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; 3JF; DSB; HBJD; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226278285
- ISBN
- 9780226278285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 35.92
€ 46.99
€ 35.92
Paperback. Discusses Greek poetic traditions, analyzes the themes of the Iliad, and looks at the portrayal of Achilles, Hektor, and the gods. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520056268
- ISBN
- 9780520056268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.13
€ 35.99
€ 26.13
Hardback. Presents a history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. The author describes the differences between English and American usage and, the link between regional dialect and race, class, and gender. He discusses contact with foreign languages, the Internet, and e-mail continue to shape English for future generations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137942
- ISBN
- 9780231137942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 21.88
€ 30.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198736288
- ISBN
- 9780198736288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.53
€ 32.53
Paperback. Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. This book charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". Num Pages: 396 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473017
- ISBN
- 9780226473017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.80
€ 25.99
€ 20.80
Hardcover. "A child is a man in small letter," wrote Bishop John Earle in the seventeenth century. "His father hath writ him as his own little story." In this title, the writer acknowledges the author of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014418
- ISBN
- 9780226014418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.87
€ 24.99
€ 19.87
Hardcover. Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. This book charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473000
- ISBN
- 9780226473000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.10€ 44.35
€ 52.10
€ 44.35
Hardback. Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA; HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123723
- ISBN
- 9780231123723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.93€ 81.45
€ 108.93
€ 81.45
Paperback. Rooted in the age-old problem of the fraught relationship between fathers and sons, this title is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of words and performance. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142234
- ISBN
- 9780226142234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.14
€ 18.99
€ 16.14
Paperback. Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate' Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029238
- ISBN
- 9780691029238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.28€ 41.35
€ 53.28
€ 41.35
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639321
- ISBN
- 9780691639321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.43
€ 136.43
Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754194
- ISBN
- 9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754187
- ISBN
- 9780804754187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.25
€ 147.25
Hardcover. Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411532
- ISBN
- 9781137411532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Translator(s): Katz, Vincent. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 520 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115825
- ISBN
- 9780691115825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.99
€ 37.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. This title presents stories, poems, and essays by such authors as Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, John Hersey, Rick Bass, and Robert Silverberg. Editor(s): Seybold, David. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Avalon Travel Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871136770
- ISBN
- 9780871136770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.72
€ 15.72
paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231061650
- ISBN
- 9780231061650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.56
€ 59.56