Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Examines what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative tradition. This title has two closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time. Editor(s): Cairns, Douglas; Scodel, Ruth. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748680108
- ISBN
- 9780748680108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.33
€ 180.33
Paperback. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a Douglas Dunn's anthology of poetry. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 36. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228386
- ISBN
- 9780571228386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.00
€ 23.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Homeric figure Nestor has a special relation to Ionia, where the Homeric poems were composed, and through Ionia to early Athens. The relationship between the Ionian city of Miletus and early Athens is particularly important. This book covers the role of these cities, and the location of Nestor's city Pylos. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 600 pages, 17 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674032903
- ISBN
- 9780674032903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.63
€ 40.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. This volume of RIM focuses on the inscriptions of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a city made famous by archaeological excavations of its spectacular burial sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; DB; DSB; HBLA1; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442623767
- ISBN
- 9781442623767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.58€ 88.00
€ 91.58
€ 88.00
Paperback. This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. Editor(s): Gifford, Douglas; Dickson, Beth; MacGillivray, Allan; Dunnigan, Sarah. Series: Scottish Language and Literature. Num Pages: 1248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1858.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 1248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748608256
- ISBN
- 9780748608256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 45.46
€ 50.99
€ 45.46
This work analyzes by subgenre the ways in which Restoration playwrights attempted to reinscribe feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. It demonstrates, for example, how heroic romance and romantic tragedy reaffirm the older ideology after it was tested in the fires of conflict. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121253
- ISBN
- 9780813121253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.50
€ 49.50
The American Southwest has long fascinated audiences. Authors and filmmakers of the 20th century have created a pantheon of mavericks who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American and Hispanic cultures. This text focuses on such border crossings. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; APFA; DSA; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121802
- ISBN
- 9780813121802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.32
€ 49.32
hardcover. From Milton and the Court Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians, authors deploy baroque moments of disruption, grotesquerie, excrescence, extravagance, exuberance, encryption_even as they turn to more supposedly classical, restrained, and rational forms. Canfield tries to ferret out the meanings of these disruptions. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492354
- ISBN
- 9781611492354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.61
€ 87.61
Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays from various periods of the author's distinguished career and by fellow academics writing in response to his work, which represents a novel dialogic form of literary criticism. In his essays ranging from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to the "Canon", he offers nuanced and informed readings of his chosen texts. Editor(s): Clare, Janet; O'Mara, Veronica. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558477
- ISBN
- 9781904558477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.26
€ 45.99
€ 38.26
paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856762727
- ISBN
- 9780856762727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.44
€ 15.99
€ 14.44
Hardback. A comprehensive introduction to the fictions of the Fight Club author, who is both loved and loathed Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611176971
- ISBN
- 9781611176971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650173
- ISBN
- 9780691650173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.43
€ 205.43
Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
Paperback. This book explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521114233
- ISBN
- 9780521114233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.08
€ 47.08
Paperback. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 212 x 150 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780950262994
- ISBN
- 9780950262994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.33
€ 10.33
Paperback. Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined. Editor(s): Doyle, Laura; Winkiel, Laura. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217783
- ISBN
- 9780253217783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.52
€ 27.99
€ 26.52
Paperback. This is a compilation of over 70 primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. It locates key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, and demonstrates that these voices have emerged out of a wealth of literary tradition which until now was unknown or critically neglected. Editor(s): Donnell, Alison; Welsh, Sarah Lawson. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSC; 2ABM; DQ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415120494
- ISBN
- 9780415120494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.29
€ 71.29
Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442884
- ISBN
- 9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639146
- ISBN
- 9780838639146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.60
€ 108.60
Paperback. This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228146
- ISBN
- 9780230228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.61
€ 39.61
Hardback. Examines the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 177
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- None
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191931
- ISBN
- 9781845191931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.00
€ 73.00
Paperback. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 0. .
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- new in paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611170528
- ISBN
- 9781611170528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Hardcover. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 324 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 40 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663022
- ISBN
- 9781855663022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.48
€ 116.48
Paperback. This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624508
- ISBN
- 9780748624508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.42
€ 43.99
€ 38.42