Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679600114
- ISBN
- 9780679600114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.53
€ 37.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 13. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553213805
- ISBN
- 9780553213805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.83
€ 8.83
paperback. Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914. Editor(s): Norris, Margot. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 412 pages, 8 maps; 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Norton
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393978513
- ISBN
- 9780393978513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. One of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Stronly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Editor(s): Johnson, Jeri. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199536443
- ISBN
- 9780199536443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.61
€ 9.99
€ 9.61
Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883026
- ISBN
- 9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.97€ 57.39
€ 62.97
€ 57.39
Hardback. This is the second volume of a comprehensive, fully annotated, edition of Robinson and Una Jeffers' correspondence. Editor(s): Karman, James. Num Pages: 1128 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 178 x 71. Weight in Grams: 1932.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 1128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804777032
- ISBN
- 9780804777032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.45
€ 124.45
Hardback. James Kearney engages with recent work in the history of the book and the history of religion to investigate the crisis of the book occasioned by the Reformation's simultaneous faith in text and distrust of material forms. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241587
- ISBN
- 9780812241587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.81
€ 90.81
Hardback. Shakespeare is worth reading because his works help us to make epistemological weakness into a way of life. Kuzner shows how Shakespeare's works offer a means for coming to terms with basic uncertainties about freedom, the world's abundance, and the demands of love and social life. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HPK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269938
- ISBN
- 9780823269938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.29
€ 92.29
hardcover. This monograph represents an effort to reclaim for literary study certain issues, such as literary intentionality, stable references, determinate meaning and objective value judgements of literary works, which have been largely ignored by post-structuralist literary critics. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231274
- ISBN
- 9780812231274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.04
€ 94.04
Hardback. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898747
- ISBN
- 9780801898747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.01€ 71.41
€ 79.01
€ 71.41
Hardback. This book focuses on specific moments of deliberated decision in the epic poems of Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. By exploring the difference between Aristotle's notion of proairesis and structuralist literary critics' use of the term, the author argues that decision making provides a link between ethical structures and narrative forms. Num Pages: 196 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874136357
- ISBN
- 9780874136357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.10
€ 117.10
Hardcover. In the first two essays in this volume - "The Age of Dobie" and "The Age of McMurtry" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652887
- ISBN
- 9780875652887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.20
€ 26.99
€ 26.20
Paperback. The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times' Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719566813
- ISBN
- 9780719566813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Wall, Eamonn. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- 9781851320448
- ISBN
- 9781851320448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Wall, Eamonn. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781851320516
- ISBN
- 9781851320516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. An exploration of the bestselling "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy series, on which the HBO series "A Game of Thrones" is based. It explores the book series' influences, its place in the fantasy pantheon, its challenging narrative choices, and the pull of its epic scope. Editor(s): Lowder, James. Num Pages: 240 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Smart Pop
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936661749
- ISBN
- 9781936661749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.23
€ 16.99
€ 15.23
Paperback. Offers an account of critical debates around the idea of performativity. This work also traces the history of the concept through the work of influential theorists. It examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415329262
- ISBN
- 9780415329262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.01
€ 27.01
Paperback. Presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Enlarged
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822314226
- ISBN
- 9780822314226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
hardcover. Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal.The Poems of Ossian achieved international success and have been compared with Homer's Iliad, inspiring many later writers such as Walter Scott and Goethe. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817558
- ISBN
- 9781906817558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.07
€ 19.99
€ 15.07
Paperback. Editor(s): McGonigal, James; O'Rourke, Donny; Whyte, Hamish. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. . 8vo.Some minor wear otherwise a good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Argyll Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KEX0264044
- ISBN
- 9781902831152
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99