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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 65 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 151 x 5. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868198941
ISBN
9780868198941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Translator(s): Chew, Kristina. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872206106
ISBN
9780872206106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.31

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772893655
ISBN
9788772893655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.72
€ 53.08

Hardcover. Katherine Anne Porter revealed only scant facts about her life, and often gave conflicting accounts. Here, the author finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil, fuelled by multiple marriages, and babies lost to miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 871.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578067770
ISBN
9781578067770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Hardcover. Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137001122
ISBN
9781137001122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349433575
ISBN
9781349433575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219373
ISBN
9780230219373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801448218
ISBN
9780801448218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

paperback. Series: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; HB; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 3. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Germany
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531073651
ISBN
9783531073651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470369
ISBN
9781611470369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493672
ISBN
9781611493672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.39

Paperback. Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. This title offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this perpetually relevant theorist. Translator(s): Winkler, Michael. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772226
ISBN
9780226772226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature providing students, researchers and teachers of Modernism with a comprehensive documentary resource. Covering a wide range of intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940 in Britain, Europe and America the anthology brings together contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane A.; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748609734
ISBN
9780748609734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program in relation to two basic problems: the commonly occurring inconsistency of componential models; and the huge number of alternative componential models. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFX; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349440764
ISBN
9781349440764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Telling Images is a study of Chaucer's narrative art and its use of symbolic images in the visual arts of his time. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804776585
ISBN
9780804776585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6466 x 4226 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1080.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804713498
ISBN
9780804713498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.51
€ 53.33

Hardback. Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron, Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137490551
ISBN
9781137490551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.13

Paperback. What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349323913
ISBN
9781349323913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349508518
ISBN
9781349508518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Paperback. This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in narrative, during and immediately after the war. Authors include Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and Denton Welch. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349545971
ISBN
9781349545971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial." Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600652
ISBN
9780230600652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.40

Paperback. This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial." Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBTB; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349370245
ISBN
9781349370245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442612938
ISBN
9781442612938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardcover. New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; HBTW; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139269
ISBN
9781571139269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

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