Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The one empire he most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primary home, was the empire of art."-from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius Num Pages: 672 pages, 76, 76 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801862717
- ISBN
- 9780801862717
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€ 40.99€ 33.33
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Paperback. Presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. This book develops a perspective variously historical, philosophical, and cultural by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317395
- ISBN
- 9780822317395
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€ 27.99€ 26.08
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896300078
- ISBN
- 9781896300078
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€ 26.99€ 18.70
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€ 18.70
paperback. 19th century European history. Num Pages: 742 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 930.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 742
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814722251
- ISBN
- 9780814722251
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€ 32.99€ 31.62
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Paperback. The latest volume of the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter's notebooks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847771407
- ISBN
- 9781847771407
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€ 29.99€ 24.96
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€ 24.96
Paperback. This 1993 book explores the history of French theatre in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780521035019
- ISBN
- 9780521035019
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€ 42.00
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Hardback. Among the many ancient techniques that shift or become problematized during the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, this volume focuses on one in particular, that of ekphrasis. It is through the lens of experimentation with the technique of ekphrasis that we can view Cervantes' texts. Editor(s): De Armas, Frederick A. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482355
- ISBN
- 9781611482355
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€ 115.81
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Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483356
- ISBN
- 9780801483356
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.96
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Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Series: Keywords in Literature and Culture(KILC)). Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470659830
- ISBN
- 9780470659830
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Condition: New
€ 164.70
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 199.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623221
- ISBN
- 9780691623221
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€ 40.99€ 28.94
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Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922553
- ISBN
- 9780813922553
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€ 33.60
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Hardback. In Friend and Foe, Frederick Harris examines the life and works of French authors Marcel Proust and Andre Gide. Proust and Gide clearly defined French literature in the first part of the twentieth century. This book contains the whole of correspondence between Proust and Gide, some letters translated in English for the first time. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761821816
- ISBN
- 9780761821816
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€ 191.08
€ 191.08
Paperback. Considers Greek and Roman literature primarily in relation to genre and theme. This series also aims to place writer and original addressee in their social context. It is suitable for both scholar and student, and to anyone interested in our classical inheritance. Editor(s): Taylor, David. Series: Classical Literature and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishers
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715636862
- ISBN
- 9780715636862
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€ 46.99€ 38.69
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Paperback. Editor(s): Aldama, Frederick Luis; Gonzalez, Christopher. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 316 pages, 51 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AKLC; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477309155
- ISBN
- 9781477309155
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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Paperback. Conversations with Writers and Artists. 308 pages, black & white illustrations. Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicanolandia writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicanolandia literature and art. This book presents interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicanolandia poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSB; GTB; JFC. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 19. Weight: 516.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713123
- ISBN
- 9780292713123
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€ 32.99€ 31.26
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Hardback. More radically than had any contemporary English author's work, Thomas Gray's two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers' powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611494143
- ISBN
- 9781611494143
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€ 136.27
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Hardback. Num Pages: 1232 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 74. Weight in Grams: 1693.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810851016
- ISBN
- 9780810851016
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Condition: New
€ 461.05
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Hardcover. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748699551
- ISBN
- 9780748699551
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€ 105.84€ 101.60
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Hardcover. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226011226
- ISBN
- 9780226011226
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€ 58.80€ 50.02
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Paperback. This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. * Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Fredman, Stephen. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405120036
- ISBN
- 9781405120036
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€ 47.99€ 47.60
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Paperback. This ground-breaking and influential study explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. It takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HPCF7; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415287517
- ISBN
- 9780415287517
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.86
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781688175
- ISBN
- 9781781688175
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paperback. Providing an account of the work of the European Marxist theorists, this book presents a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making - in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form. Num Pages: 432 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691013114
- ISBN
- 9780691013114
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.90
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477850
- ISBN
- 9780801477850
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.42
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