Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160230
- ISBN
- 9781405160230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.36
€ 103.36
hardcover. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DS. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781405170468
- ISBN
- 9781405170468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.36
€ 99.36
Paperback. Offers a collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. This title includes a selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns' 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841952536
- ISBN
- 9781841952536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.18
€ 20.99
€ 15.18
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Dover Thrift Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486431840
- ISBN
- 9780486431840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.20
€ 6.20
Paperback. Features a modernised text of Marlowe's play with annotation on the page, a comprehensive Introduction, and related texts, including selections from Machiavelli's "Prince", Gentillet's "Anti-Machiavel", and Bacon's "The Advancement of Learning". Editor(s): Lynch, Stephen J. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 102
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209664
- ISBN
- 9780872209664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.41
€ 16.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. This is one of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading. Series Editor(s): Croft, Steven. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, map, facsim. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; 5AN; DSBD; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198325994
- ISBN
- 9780198325994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.49
€ 19.49
Paperback. 'A farce of terribly serious, even savage comic humour' T.S Eliot The Jew of Malta was arguably the most popular play of the Elizabethan era. This new student edition is freshly revised to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play. Editor(s): Siemon, James R. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 176 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 3rd New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713677669
- ISBN
- 9780713677669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.19
€ 13.99
€ 13.19
Paperback. Series: Pan Heritage Classics. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509821891
- ISBN
- 9781509821891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815606437
- ISBN
- 9780815606437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.76
€ 19.99
€ 19.76
Hardback. Rigorous archival research, careful readings, and long chronologies of genre define this magisterial work, making it an invaluable resource for scholars of American studies, American poetry, and literary history. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404899
- ISBN
- 9781421404899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.50€ 66.02
€ 73.50
€ 66.02
Hardback. For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2AHA; DSBB; DSK; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224049
- ISBN
- 9780520224049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.63€ 45.08
€ 57.63
€ 45.08
Paperback. Suitable for those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth century history, this book analyses texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326977
- ISBN
- 9780822326977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Paperback. This work presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology. It illuminates contradictions in Emerson's political outlook, and the conjunctions of liberal and authoritarian ideology they produced. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HPC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780226577005
- ISBN
- 9780226577005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.97
€ 42.99
€ 32.97
Paperback. A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0021765
- ISBN
- 9780753807095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This book offers a detailed account of Spinozaa s influence on various schools of present--day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, new historicism, and the unclassifiable writings of a thinker like Giles Deleuze. Num Pages: 330 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631175575
- ISBN
- 9780631175575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 48.88
€ 48.99
€ 48.88
Paperback. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Series: Cambridge Contexts in Literature. Num Pages: 130 pages, 1 colour book. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 196. Series: Cambridge Contexts in Literature. 130 pages, 1 colour book. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Cateogry: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; YQE. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 7. Weight: 196.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 130
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521775540
- ISBN
- 9780521775540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.09
€ 14.09
Hardback. Examines three Korean authors of the 1930s - Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun - whose works critique competing modes of literary representation in the period of Japanese colonial rule. This title focuses on the relationship between political discourse and aesthetics. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GK; DSBH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073265
- ISBN
- 9780674073265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198768036
- ISBN
- 9780198768036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.79
€ 19.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history. Series: Approaching the Ancient World. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415073516
- ISBN
- 9780415073516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.89
€ 56.89
Paperback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477310687
- ISBN
- 9781477310687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 508. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781477309773
- ISBN
- 9781477309773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.92
€ 103.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801453694
- ISBN
- 9780801453694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Publisher
- Faber Faber Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571170357
- ISBN
- 9780571170357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.41
€ 14.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. Looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300171464
- ISBN
- 9780300171464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.48
€ 34.99
€ 25.48