Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
hardcover. Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour. But they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. This book provides students with a long needed accessible and essential introductory guide to the plays, focusing particularly on information about the Athens of the day. Num Pages: 376 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198721581
- ISBN
- 9780198721581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.68
€ 45.68
Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318610
- ISBN
- 9781846318610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.39
€ 44.39
Paperback. In this biography, Douglas Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 456 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231349
- ISBN
- 9780631231349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.54
€ 57.54
Paperback. Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFP; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501326042
- ISBN
- 9781501326042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.60
€ 38.99
€ 32.60
Paperback. Douglas Mack argues that non-elite, 'subaltern' Scottish writers actively challenged the elite's Imperial Grand Narrative and demonstrates that Scottish fiction was active and influential both in shaping and in subverting the assumptions that underpinned the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1QDB; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618149
- ISBN
- 9780748618149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.87
€ 38.99
€ 34.87
Paperback. This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage. Editor(s): Hanson, C. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339990
- ISBN
- 9781349339990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined. Editor(s): Doyle, Laura; Winkiel, Laura. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217783
- ISBN
- 9780253217783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.05
€ 27.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. It shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and becomes popular music, in all its diverse and glorious forms. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AVGP; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441126986
- ISBN
- 9781441126986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.60
€ 38.99
€ 32.60
Hardback. Series: Historicizing Modernism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474278577
- ISBN
- 9781474278577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.56€ 135.20
€ 153.56
€ 135.20
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated in black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Halsgrove
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857042675
- ISBN
- 9780857042675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.33
€ 13.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442884
- ISBN
- 9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.35
€ 17.99
€ 16.35
Hardcover. This study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space. It examines the construction of social and political space in maps, cosmography and geography, historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; JFCX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333779330
- ISBN
- 9780333779330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.06
€ 181.06
hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639146
- ISBN
- 9780838639146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.96
€ 101.96
Paperback. This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228146
- ISBN
- 9780230228146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.00
€ 39.00
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780934426
- ISBN
- 9781780934426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.58
€ 37.99
€ 31.58
Hardback. Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003439
- ISBN
- 9780230003439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Mews, Dr Constant J. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HRA; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349633272
- ISBN
- 9781349633272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063992
- ISBN
- 9780719063992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.63
€ 26.99
€ 26.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Werther, Dr. David; Werther, Susan. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924138
- ISBN
- 9781628924138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.54
€ 33.99
€ 28.54