Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Offers a comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, this title reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 695 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Department of Comparative Literature United States
- Number of pages
- 695
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053335
- ISBN
- 9780674053335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.91
€ 32.99
€ 27.91
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490404
- ISBN
- 9781611490404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.91
€ 161.91
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801447693
- ISBN
- 9780801447693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.29
€ 84.29
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501702112
- ISBN
- 9781501702112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99
€ 46.99
paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780801477119
- ISBN
- 9780801477119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.27
€ 31.99
€ 28.27
Hardback. Examines British fictions of exploration and colonialism from 1650 to 1750, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact work to reimagine political categories such as sovereignty and popular power. This book includes fictions that refigure the commoner as a superstitious savage encountering Britons as civilizing sovereigns. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256914
- ISBN
- 9780823256914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.77
€ 70.77
Hardback. Offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of his important writings of the post-war period Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251025
- ISBN
- 9780823251025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.08
€ 107.08
Paperback. Offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of his important writings of the post-war period Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251032
- ISBN
- 9780823251032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.81
€ 37.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. A meditation on the human relationships to language and the exigencies of its figuration. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 half-tones 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804734073
- ISBN
- 9780804734073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.23
€ 149.23
Paperback. This absorbing guide introduces the work of 'the Beats', assessing the lives which inspired their semi-autobiographical writing, and examining their monumental influence upon modern popular culture. Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851685424
- ISBN
- 9781851685424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636238
- ISBN
- 9780691636238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.10
€ 184.10
Hardback. Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 line diagrams 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737265
- ISBN
- 9780804737265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.65
€ 158.65
Paperback. This text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327334
- ISBN
- 9780226327334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.59
€ 37.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327396
- ISBN
- 9780226327396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 45.64
€ 53.17
€ 45.64
Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143309
- ISBN
- 9780691143309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.21
€ 46.99
€ 33.21
Paperback. Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the 21st century.-Boston Globe Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465030507
- ISBN
- 9780465030507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.08
€ 18.99
€ 14.08
Paperback. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561224
- ISBN
- 9780099561224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.80
€ 12.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HRGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561231
- ISBN
- 9780099561231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561194
- ISBN
- 9780099561194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.49
€ 23.99
€ 17.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493115
- ISBN
- 9781611493115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.85
€ 154.85