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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Highlights the long history of African American-Asian American relations Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814752562
- ISBN
- 9780814752562
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118255353
- ISBN
- 9781118255353
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Condition: New
€ 42.15
€ 42.15
Hardback. "The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 color illus. 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131368
- ISBN
- 9780691131368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.93€ 68.43
€ 88.93
€ 68.43
Hardcover. Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405118897
- ISBN
- 9781405118897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 black & white line drawings, 40 black & white photographs (16pp). BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Golden Duck (UK) Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899262014
- ISBN
- 9781899262014
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.57
€ 19.99
€ 18.57
Paperback. Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JMAF; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109970
- ISBN
- 9780231109970
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Hardback. "A series of dialogues and exchanges between Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers on their marriage" -- Translator(s): Scott-Fox, Lorna. Num Pages: 128 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; JFFK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231180108
- ISBN
- 9780231180108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.28
€ 30.99
€ 22.28
Paperback. The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such. Translator(s): Waller, Margaret. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 271 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 271
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231056434
- ISBN
- 9780231056434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate." Translator(s): Roudiez, Leon S. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 414 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594. Series: European Perspectives. 414 pages, Ill.
Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate.". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 22. Weight: 582. Translator(s): Roudiez, Leon S.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 414
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Reprinted Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231060257
- ISBN
- 9780231060257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
€ 46.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Translator(s): Guberman, Ross. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102513
- ISBN
- 9780231102513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.98
€ 42.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers-Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes-affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBTV; JFC; JMAF; JPWF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114158
- ISBN
- 9780231114158
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 348 x 36. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128971
- ISBN
- 9780231128971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109963
- ISBN
- 9780231109963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.34€ 79.73
€ 104.34
€ 79.73
Hardback. The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231128964
- ISBN
- 9780231128964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 83.22
€ 109.08
€ 83.22
Hardback. Despite his reputation as a staunch individualist and repeated attacks on institutions that constrain the individual's imagination, Julia Wright argues that William Blake rarely represents isolation positively and explores his concern with the kind of national community being established. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821415191
- ISBN
- 9780821415191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.56
€ 52.56
Paperback. Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, twentieth-century leftists encouraged children to question the authority of those in power. This title offers a collection of stories, poems, comic strips, primers, and other texts for children that embody this radical tradition. Editor(s): Mickenberg, Julia L.; Nel, Philip. Num Pages: 313 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 313
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814757215
- ISBN
- 9780814757215
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, the author unveils the figure of the citizensaint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS; HRLB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226143521
- ISBN
- 9780226143521
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.79
€ 33.99
€ 26.79
hardcover. This book examines the ways in which the literary genre of hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology together entered into the construction of "the Renaissance" as a canon and period. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726436
- ISBN
- 9780804726436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Hardback. In Romantic Marks and Measures, Julia S. Carlson examines Wordsworth's poetry of "speech" and "nature" as a poetry of print, written and read in the midst of topographic and typographic experimentation and change. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 31 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812247879
- ISBN
- 9780812247879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
Paperback. As the first major study of Shakespeare's Birthplace during the nineteenth century, Shakespeare's Shrine draws on extensive archival research to describe the invention of the Birthplace in the Victorian period, when the site was purchased for the nation, extensively restored, and transformed into a major tourist attraction. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; DSGS; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223378
- ISBN
- 9780812223378
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, 'York Notes' will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 9. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408217269
- ISBN
- 9781408217269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582424562
- ISBN
- 9780582424562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582414631
- ISBN
- 9780582414631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Paperback. Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582414730
- ISBN
- 9780582414730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.36
€ 11.36