Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252332
- ISBN
- 9780230252332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308787
- ISBN
- 9780230308787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Paperback. An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era. It looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists; explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions; and applies theories to literary texts. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415251341
- ISBN
- 9780415251341
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Condition: New
€ 28.56
€ 28.56
Paperback. Offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming'; time and the flow of life; 'major' and 'minor' literature; difference and repetition; and desire, the image and ideology. This book is intended for students who wish to think differently about life and literature and to create their own readings of literary texts. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415246347
- ISBN
- 9780415246347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.13
€ 34.99
€ 34.13
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719095498
- ISBN
- 9780719095498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.60
€ 24.99
€ 24.60
Hardback. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739143827
- ISBN
- 9780739143827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.16
€ 181.16
Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847675330
- ISBN
- 9781847675330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence - which has been unavailable to all previous writers. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 540
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007113224
- ISBN
- 9780007113224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.73
€ 23.99
€ 17.73
Hardback. Complicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419930
- ISBN
- 9781421419930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.64€ 47.68
€ 50.64
€ 47.68
Hardcover. This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003279
- ISBN
- 9780230003279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This inter-disciplinary study is the first to consider how representations of pirates addressed both national political issues and the agenda of particular interest groups. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349280933
- ISBN
- 9781349280933
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230358171
- ISBN
- 9780230358171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. This collection consists of essays by Jewish women in Britain, contributed by twelve scholars from the fields of contemporary British literature and Jewish studies. Amongst them they cover a range of topics: popular fiction (including romances and lesbian fiction); the "Woman's Novel;" multicultural literature; and post-Holocaust writing. Editor(s): Tylee, Claire M. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492859
- ISBN
- 9781611492859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.93
€ 131.93
Paperback. This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars. Editor(s): McEachern, Claire. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 321 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107643321
- ISBN
- 9781107643321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.65
€ 33.65
Hardcover. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446251
- ISBN
- 9781137446251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 8 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 8
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312225575
- ISBN
- 9780312225575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBLH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704805
- ISBN
- 9780198704805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.99
€ 188.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBH; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403997739
- ISBN
- 9781403997739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
paperback. Get everything you need to achieve your full potential at English Literature A Level or AS with York Notes Study Guides, now updated for Assessment Objectives 1 to 5. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK; DSRC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 212 x 297 x 11. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781292138190
- ISBN
- 9781292138190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.85
€ 11.99
€ 11.85
Hardcover. In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373069
- ISBN
- 9781137373069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474423168
- ISBN
- 9781474423168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.83
€ 33.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. This volume contains self-narratives that propel themselves and their authors to the centre of critical debates concerning the status of the subject, the nature of self-representation, the globalisation of the regional, and more. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778387110
- ISBN
- 9788778387110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.24
€ 25.99
€ 20.24
Hardback. The early works of Herve Guibert explored every aspect of the body and its desires. He was influenced by the works of the Marquis de Sade, and this book discusses how both authors manipulate their identities; theatrical aspects of both authors' works; how story telling brings freedom to both authors; and disintegrating and disappearing bodies. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460506
- ISBN
- 9781611460506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340008
- ISBN
- 9780230340008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50