Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520223202
- ISBN
- 9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.55€ 52.45
€ 68.55
€ 52.45
Paperback. This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352333
- ISBN
- 9781349352333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
Paperback. In teaching how to read literature and enjoy it, Katona gives 11 good reasons to make reading a part of regular life and includes a list of tried and true page-turners with their movie counterparts. Teachers of reading, students, general readers of literature, and those just developing an interest in reading will find this guide appealing. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 167 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810854345
- ISBN
- 9780810854345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.74
€ 71.74
Paperback. Uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. This title shows how Deaf artists and ASL performers have used and continue to use their art as a means to traverse the barriers between disenfranchisement and privilege. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563685774
- ISBN
- 9781563685774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.06€ 47.68
€ 56.06
€ 47.68
Paperback. Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HPQ; HRAM9; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173698
- ISBN
- 9780231173698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.00€ 21.95
€ 26.00
€ 21.95
Paperback. Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464685
- ISBN
- 9781349464685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Hardcover. Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340047
- ISBN
- 9781137340047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Num Pages: 992 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 171 x 74. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 992
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199941865
- ISBN
- 9780199941865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 277.12
€ 277.12
Hardcover. Series: Themes in Canadian Sociology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 8 b/w figures/8 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199007592
- ISBN
- 9780199007592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.70
€ 76.70
Hardcover. Analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. This title examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226871585
- ISBN
- 9780226871585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.55€ 77.34
€ 94.55
€ 77.34
Paperback. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of early modern prose were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, the author argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226215273
- ISBN
- 9780226215273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.67
€ 34.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. Num Pages: 260 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844020
- ISBN
- 9781843844020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
hardcover. Lists references to critical and interpretive studies os the literary output of 169 major and minor Hispanic South American women writers active from the turn of the twentieth century to 1989. Num Pages: 156 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810822634
- ISBN
- 9780810822634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.82
€ 90.82
Paperback. The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials. Translator(s): Edwards, Cyril. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3H; AVGC; AVH; DCF; DSBB; FQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199238545
- ISBN
- 9780199238545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.27
€ 16.99
€ 13.27
Hardcover. What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322708
- ISBN
- 9781137322708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSB; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458516
- ISBN
- 9781349458516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326694
- ISBN
- 9780822326694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.23
€ 29.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349386185
- ISBN
- 9781349386185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.19
€ 61.19
Hardcover. Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312233877
- ISBN
- 9780312233877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. A survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Num Pages: 570 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 570
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520044777
- ISBN
- 9780520044777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.20
€ 46.99
€ 33.20