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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
James Currey
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010971
ISBN
9781847010971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Hardcover. Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Editor(s): Herrmann, Elisabeth; Smith-Prei, Carrie; Taberner, Stuart. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139252
ISBN
9781571139252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Paperback. This translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 342 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HPD; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104319
ISBN
9780231104319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.89

Hardcover. Xenophon I. Historia Graeca Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1922
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198145523
ISBN
9780198145523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.24

Paperback. "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell Num Pages: 208 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871401540
ISBN
9780871401540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.17

Hardcover. We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 156 pages, 20 figures. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
156
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137022189
ISBN
9781137022189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. The ultimate collection of tasteless and sick jokes that just shouldn't be told. Series: Mammoth Books. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849010559
ISBN
9781849010559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094594
ISBN
9780906094594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Hardback. E. Jane Burns argues that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that includes northern France as an important cultural player within the silk economics of the Mediterranean. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812241549
ISBN
9780812241549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Burns, E Jane; McCracken, Dr Peggy. Num Pages: 269 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022327
ISBN
9780268022327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.49

Hardback. Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137330383
ISBN
9781137330383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.73

Hardback. The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382016
ISBN
9781137382016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.38

Hardback. ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444765182
ISBN
9781444765182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9780679724766
ISBN
9780679724766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.84

Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813119229
ISBN
9780813119229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.77

Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469630618
ISBN
9781469630618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.37

Hardcover. A host of newly-discovered documents enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history, the Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles in 1830-1. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 maps, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSE; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137384461
ISBN
9781137384461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Paperback. E. Pauline Johnson's writings on Indigenous issues and identity are gathered for the first time in this new collection. Editor(s): Fee, Margery; Nason, Dory. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811915
ISBN
9781554811915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.90

Hardcover. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 176 x 18. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590334324
ISBN
9781590334324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.32
€ 68.98

Hardback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804734905
ISBN
9780804734905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.97

Paperback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804738736
ISBN
9780804738736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230354470
ISBN
9780230354470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

hardcover. Series: Electra USA. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474169
ISBN
9781611474169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.18

Hardback. Editor(s): Zivin, Erin Graff. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2007th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403984968
ISBN
9781403984968
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.07
€ 48.54

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