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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Death by Drama answers these and other questions while presenting a. Num Pages: 354 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226207889
ISBN
9780226207889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

hardcover. By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442644335
ISBN
9781442644335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ACSC; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 902.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
596
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408286036
ISBN
9781408286036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.94

paperback. In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; AKLC; DNJ; DSK; FXZ; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
SKU
9780224080897
ISBN
9780224080897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.68

Paperback. A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Editor(s): Porte, Joel; Morris, Saundra. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521499460
ISBN
9780521499460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.22

hardcover. The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9781442646612
ISBN
9781442646612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.23

Paperback. A new play from the initiative Platform, which is aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425002
ISBN
9781848425002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. Picturing Emerson: An Iconography reproduces and explores the background of all known images of Ralph Waldo Emerson created from life, including drawings, paintings, silhouettes, sculptures, and photographs in all formats. The book provides dates and commentary, enabling readers to trace Emerson's visage from the 1820s to the 1880s. Series: Harvard Library Bulletin. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 25 x 17. .
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975972
ISBN
9780674975972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.94

Paperback. A book that aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719483
ISBN
9780804719483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Yale University Press New Haven, CT
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300104462
ISBN
9780300104462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.17
€ 42.46

Hardback. Modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness of purpose. In this study, Joel R. Cohn analyzes works by three writers whose works constitute an assault on the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674847118
ISBN
9780674847118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Paperback. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474423151
ISBN
9781474423151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Developing the themes contained in his ground-breaking Mere Irish and Fior-Ghael, Leerssen examines national self-image through the two cultural spheres of literary and historical scholarship. Series: Critical conditions - field day monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181119
ISBN
9781859181119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

Paperback. Three Danish comedy plays by Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Holberg--the "father" of Danish and Norwegian literature. Plays have been translated by Michael Meyer. Translator(s): Meyer, Michael. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DD; DNF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840020601
ISBN
9781840020601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780300189698
ISBN
9780300189698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.75

Hardcover. Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; 3JJH; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135902
ISBN
9781571135902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.89

Paperback. Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Editor(s): John, Eileen; Lopes, Dominic McIver. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405112086
ISBN
9781405112086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.83

Hardcover. Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Editor(s): John, Eileen; Lopes, Dominic McIver. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 32. Weight in Grams: 802.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405112093
ISBN
9781405112093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.48

Paperback. Includes Virgil's text and Conington's commentary on Books X-XII, along with Conington's index to Books VII-XII. Editor(s): Conington, John. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 356 pages, 2-colour covers. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675266
ISBN
9781904675266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 695.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035059
ISBN
9780802035059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.96

Paperback. "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third". This study attempts to explain and justify T.S. Eliot's claim. John Scott offers a critical overview of Dante's writings: the "Vita Nova", the "Convivio", the "De Vulgari Eloquentia", his "Rime", and "Monarchia", Series: William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 504 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268044510
ISBN
9780268044510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardcover. Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves. Editor(s): Williams, John A.; Williams, Lori. Series: African American Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Edition
Adapted ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814333556
ISBN
9780814333556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.11

Paperback. While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses remakes the relationship between world and representation. Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications in the work of writers who were self-consciously experimental. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB; HRQC5; HRQM2; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627707
ISBN
9780748627707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.23

paperback. Num Pages: 124 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226650258
ISBN
9780226650258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.62

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