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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, viii, 256 p. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226873985
ISBN
9780226873985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

paperback. A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435313
ISBN
9780140435313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.64

Hardcover. The three essays in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947129
ISBN
9781933947129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.23

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650241
ISBN
9780691650241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647951
ISBN
9780691647951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 226.67

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645810
ISBN
9780691645810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.37

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521141376
ISBN
9780521141376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.40

Paperback. Edwina Taborsky moves semiotics away from being a descriptive tool within the humanities and uses its powers of analysis on the organic and social nature of cognition. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics & Communication. Num Pages: 229 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Toronto
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802071804
ISBN
9780802071804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.89

Hardback. In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803245037
ISBN
9780803245037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.04

Hardcover. Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short-story writers of the early 20th century. This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel's work. It looks at Babel's cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235957
ISBN
9781936235957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.69

Hardback. Editor(s): Burk, Efram L. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490992
ISBN
9781611490992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.27

Hardcover.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
164
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184837
ISBN
9781859184837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 gathers together, for the first time, her Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as annotations and a critical bibliography . Editor(s): Walshe, Eibhear. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184493
ISBN
9781859184493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 36.30

Paperback. Deals with Virginia Woolf's lesbianism. This title focuses on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Editor(s): Barrett, Eileen; Cramer, Patricia. Series: Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 306 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814712641
ISBN
9780814712641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Explores19th-century in order to argue that the "nuclear" 19th-century family was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than 20th-century critics have assumed. The book argues that representations of the "avunculate" mark a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized directives of a new political economy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750257
ISBN
9780804750257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.89

Paperback. Filled with spiritual wisdom and artistic beauty, Parzival is one of the greatest works of world literature. The character of Parzival illustrates the path of development required by the modern human being. This is a concise, accessible introduction to the central Grail story. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Temple Lodge Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906999353
ISBN
9781906999353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.44

Paperback. This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 118 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780936756677
ISBN
9780936756677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.96

Reading and Riding traces the foundation and development of Louis Hachette's Bibliothe'que des Chemins de Fer and its impact on the social, political, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460360
ISBN
9781611460360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 110.62

Paperback. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926650
ISBN
9780813926650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.70

Hardback. This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Editor(s): Einhaus, Ann-Marie; Baxter, Katherine Isobel. Series: Edinburgh Companion to Literature. Num Pages: 512 pages, 36 black and white, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD; DSBH; DSR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401630
ISBN
9781474401630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.96
€ 197.13

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