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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349473724
ISBN
9781349473724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 90 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226252230
ISBN
9780226252230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Hardcover. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365286
ISBN
9781137365286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. A guide that studies the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286783
ISBN
9780099286783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Presents an avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, and also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286899
ISBN
9780099286899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286790
ISBN
9780099286790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Lhamon's reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness and how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by all ordinary people. Num Pages: 478 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DQ; DSBF; DSG; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
478
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010628
ISBN
9780674010628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.17
€ 75.58

Paperback. This title contains six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Series: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 563 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333990469
ISBN
9780333990469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.38

Paperback. In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571222964
ISBN
9780571222964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

paperback. Editor(s): Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Condition
New
SKU
9781583229156
ISBN
9781583229156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Contains an introduction and notes that make the poem accessible to readers of Auden and readers of Shakespeare. This poem begins in a theater after a performance of "The Tempest" has ended. It includes a speech in verse by Prospero bidding farewell to Ariel. Editor(s): Kirsch, Arthur C. Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123844
ISBN
9780691123844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Provides an analysis of Western culture during the Second World War that won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein as well as a ballet by Jerome Robbins. Editor(s): Jacobs, Alan. Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Ant Cri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138152
ISBN
9780691138152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.79

Paperback. In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with freshly-written notes and aphorisms. This book combines earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283507
ISBN
9780571283507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Selected works of memoir, poetry and prose from WH Davies, known as the 'tramp poet'. Editor(s): Waterman, Rory. Series: Fyfieldbooks. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784100872
ISBN
9781784100872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349218622
ISBN
9781349218622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.21

Hardcover. In a series of readings of Kafka's works from "The Judgment" to "The Trial" and other works from late 1914, a narrative unfolds of Dostoyevsky being used both as a guide and a foil. Kafka's appropriations of the Dostoyevskian world are traced in this book by W.J. Dodd. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 2ACG; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333558652
ISBN
9780333558652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.26

Paperback. Aldred's Marginalia provides an introductory discussion to the explanatory comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 62 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
62
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859890366
ISBN
9780859890366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1967
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401034968
ISBN
9789401034968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.17

Hardcover. "The Greek Anthology" contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling, diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred composers, collected over centuries, and arranged by subject. This Loeb edition replaces the earlier edition by W. R. Paton, with a Greek text and ample notes reflecting current scholarship. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 117 x 25. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996885
ISBN
9780674996885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Paperback. Features Gothic narratives, stories of the macabre and supernatural tales which demonstrate the author's instinct for weaving terror and suspense into scenes of ordinary everyday life. Editor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FF; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897334419
ISBN
9780897334419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838755549
ISBN
9780838755549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.05

Paperback. This text discusses Arabic writing and composition by looking at vocabulary, grammar, transformations, and style. Written entirely in Arabic, the book is clear and logical, and is aimed at intermediate to advanced levels. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; CJBG; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774244728
ISBN
9789774244728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.56

Paperback. In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? And what would American literature look like without it? This book takes up this debate. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee; Buell, Lawrence. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press New Jersey
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691128528
ISBN
9780691128528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Offers a biographical survey of Ishiguro's literary career, an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories, as well as an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpretations of his work. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415415361
ISBN
9780415415361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

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