Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short-story writers of the early 20th century. This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel's work. It looks at Babel's cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235957
- ISBN
- 9781936235957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.89
€ 145.89
Paperback. Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond. Editor(s): King, John; Kristal, Efrain. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 406. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): King, John; Kristal, Efrain. Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight: 406.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521682855
- ISBN
- 9780521682855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.21
€ 32.99
€ 23.21
Hardback. Editor(s): Burk, Efram L. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490992
- ISBN
- 9781611490992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.16
€ 136.16
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 164
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184837
- ISBN
- 9781859184837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Hardcover. This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 gathers together, for the first time, her Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as annotations and a critical bibliography . Editor(s): Walshe, Eibhear. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184493
- ISBN
- 9781859184493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 36.30
€ 39.00
€ 36.30
paperback. Serves as an introduction to contemporary Polish literature, developed through critical discussion of key problems and representative writers. It includes poetry, fiction and drama. Some essays are devoted to individual writers including, Milosz, Herbert, Gombrowicz, Schulz, Konwicki and Mrozek. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349123339
- ISBN
- 9781349123339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Paperback. Deals with Virginia Woolf's lesbianism. This title focuses on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Editor(s): Barrett, Eileen; Cramer, Patricia. Series: Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 306 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814712641
- ISBN
- 9780814712641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
€ 33.47
Hardback. Explores19th-century in order to argue that the "nuclear" 19th-century family was, in fact, far more fractured and contradictory than 20th-century critics have assumed. The book argues that representations of the "avunculate" mark a preoccupation with the increasingly theorized directives of a new political economy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750257
- ISBN
- 9780804750257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.24
€ 87.24
Paperback. Robert Louis Stevenson loved to conjure up a dashing, romantic lineage for himself, dreaming that he was descended from the colourful outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. This work gives a concise account of his life - his family background, childhood and adolescence in a Calvinist, hard-working household in Scotland, and his final years in the South Seas. Num Pages: 114 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- NMSE - Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905267217
- ISBN
- 9781905267217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.26
€ 8.26
Paperback. Filled with spiritual wisdom and artistic beauty, Parzival is one of the greatest works of world literature. The character of Parzival illustrates the path of development required by the modern human being. This is a concise, accessible introduction to the central Grail story. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Temple Lodge Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906999353
- ISBN
- 9781906999353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.33
€ 15.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 118 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936756677
- ISBN
- 9780936756677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.07
€ 18.99
€ 14.07
Reading and Riding traces the foundation and development of Louis Hachette's Bibliothe'que des Chemins de Fer and its impact on the social, political, and cultural history of nineteenth-century France. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460360
- ISBN
- 9781611460360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.74
€ 109.74
Paperback. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926650
- ISBN
- 9780813926650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.29
€ 31.29
Hardback. This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Editor(s): Einhaus, Ann-Marie; Baxter, Katherine Isobel. Series: Edinburgh Companion to Literature. Num Pages: 512 pages, 36 black and white, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD; DSBH; DSR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401630
- ISBN
- 9781474401630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 207.20€ 194.30
€ 207.20
€ 194.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Robert D. Reed Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934759585
- ISBN
- 9781934759585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.68
€ 12.68
Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DSB; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816681006
- ISBN
- 9780816681006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.23
€ 30.99
€ 29.23
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631233
- ISBN
- 9780691631233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.50
€ 159.50
Hardback. An analysis of the cultural role played by the printed word in Turkish-ruled Egypt Translator(s): Davies, Humphrey. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2FMC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Har/Cdr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774163975
- ISBN
- 9789774163975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.31
€ 90.31
Paperback. Reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and centre themselves in time and space. This work provides a fresh understanding of Western literature and culture, and encourages a reconsideration of the formation and modern character of the American West. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218338
- ISBN
- 9780803218338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.77
€ 37.99
€ 33.77
Paperback. Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, this title examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD; JFC; JFFK; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814711996
- ISBN
- 9780814711996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63