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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137488367
ISBN
9781137488367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.57

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452741
ISBN
9780801452741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165143
ISBN
9780231165143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.86

Hardcover. Examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSC; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993690
ISBN
9780295993690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.57

Hardback. Many contemporary novelists, such as Atwood, Mitchell, and McCarthy, have flocked to a literary form that was once considered lowbrow: the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks argues these writers employ conventions of the post-apocalyptic to reengage with key features of modernity. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137553669
ISBN
9781137553669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.27

Paperback. The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2009
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349375004
ISBN
9781349375004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.47

Hardcover. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248579
ISBN
9780812248579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.56
€ 31.52

Paperback. Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. This title argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032392
ISBN
9780674032392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares. Series: Wesleyan Poetry. Num Pages: 86 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
86
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819565068
ISBN
9780819565068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.93

Paperback. From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. It covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. It shows how a range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by this literature. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; 2ACSX; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631236269
ISBN
9780631236269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.55

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168434
ISBN
9780231168434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.89

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168427
ISBN
9780231168427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.71

Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754337
ISBN
9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.27

Hardback. Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic - of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, and of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. This title presents an English translation of his work. Translator(s): Hacker, Marilyn. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBT; 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340. Poems by Hedi Kaddour. 192 pages. Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic - of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, and of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. This title presents an English translation of his work. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBT; 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Dimension: 217 x 151 x 18. Weight: 340. Translator(s): Hacker, Marilyn.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300149586
ISBN
9780300149586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.43

Hardcover. Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho's study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660045
ISBN
9780674660045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

paperback. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period. Editor(s): Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Kelly, Catherine E. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812220803
ISBN
9780812220803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442266742
ISBN
9781442266742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; GPFC; HBLL; PBWS; PSAF; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063843
ISBN
9780271063843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.65

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063836
ISBN
9780271063836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.05
€ 58.88

Hardcover. Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist sympathies. This book deals with Emily Lawless. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184134
ISBN
9781859184134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.00
€ 38.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271035260
ISBN
9780271035260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.76
€ 82.92

Hardback. A sustained analysis of Transatlantic women's literature of the twentieth century, focusing on narratives of travel and adventure, with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada, South America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624454
ISBN
9780748624454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

Paperback. Editor(s): Bauer, Heike. Series: Sexuality Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 5SG; DS; HBL; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439912492
ISBN
9781439912492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837624885
ISBN
9783837624885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.46
€ 42.14

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