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Literature: history & criticism

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

€ 53.41
€ 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

This book offers a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky. The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 740.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843154
ISBN
9781934843154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.65

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has produced in the second part of the twentieth century. This collection of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of Brodsky's friends, publishers, editors, translators, and fellow poets. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 604 pages, 71. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1048.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
604
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843161
ISBN
9781934843161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.78

Paperback. * Asks what literary criticism should do in the post--theory era. * Articulates the case for a theoretically aware but textually centred literary studies. * Controversial in its privileging of texts over readings and in its insistence on the rehumanisation of literary studies. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631221685
ISBN
9780631221685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.69

Paperback. Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Editor(s): Cunningham, Valentine. Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 442 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631199144
ISBN
9780631199144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Paperback. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349484775
ISBN
9781349484775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.25

Paperback. Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature, examining what underlies the stereotype about the destructive power of romantic love and why Russian writers so willingly employ this cliche. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988962
ISBN
9780295988962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.25

Hardback. This study of models of action seeks to respond to the loss of faith in political action that seems to predominate in Western societies, to the sense that there is nothing we can do to change the course of events, or that political action is ultimately useless, without effect in a world governed by independent political and economic laws. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733304
ISBN
9780804733304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.90

Hardback. A biography of George Eliot. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333310946
ISBN
9780333310946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 577.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349388370
ISBN
9781349388370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.85

Paperback. This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100398
ISBN
9780230100398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.84

Hardcover. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512512
ISBN
9781137512512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

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