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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135100
ISBN
9781571135100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardback. Examines the role of the Victorian periodical in defining and refining ideas of gender. Series Editor(s): Beer, Gillian. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 583.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521830720
ISBN
9780521830720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.59

Hardback. This work looks at the use of language in the "Iliad" and examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms of nationality and of linguistics. It argues that the way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative position in the Trojan War. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CFH; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847682546
ISBN
9780847682546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.24

Hardback. This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the past half-century. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482638
ISBN
9781611482638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.60

Hardback. An analysis of the discourses and cultural scripts used in telling stories about the relationship between teenage daughters and mothers in young adult novels and in short stories published between 1965 and 1998. It employs feminist theories and insights on female adolescence. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810836921
ISBN
9780810836921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.29

Hardback. A comprehensive critical analysis of 19 novels, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession as a professor of linguistics influences her writing for young adults. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810874466
ISBN
9780810874466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.99

Paperback. In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a "History of the Danes". This title provides a full English edition featuring introductory summaries, and a commentary on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet. Editor(s): Davidson, Hilda Ellis. Translator(s): Fisher, Peter. Num Pages: 526 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 798. Bks.1-9. 526 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Davidson, Hilda Ellis. In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a "History of the Danes". This title provides a full English edition featuring introductory summaries, and a commentary on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; JFHF. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 29. Weight: 756. Translator(s): Fisher, Peter.
Publisher
D.S.Brewer
Number of pages
526
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859915021
ISBN
9780859915021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.35

Paperback. Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611683103
ISBN
9781611683103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Hardback. Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century.. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
340
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451811
ISBN
9780857451811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.40

Paperback. Based on the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference held at the University of Chicago in 2012, this title includes essays from prominent scholars on topics such as media archaeology, theories of the image, popular forms, the history of aesthetics, and transmedia dynamics in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and early twenty-first-century contexts. Editor(s): Chute, Hillary L.; Jagoda, Patrick. Num Pages: 272 pages, 97 colour plates, 110 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226208466
ISBN
9780226208466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.87

Paperback. Beginning with the nature of literature, this also asks the questions of why we should read literature and why literature has such authority over us.This will be essential reading for any interested in the future of literature. Series: Thinking in Action. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415261258
ISBN
9780415261258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.50

Paperback / so. Series: Abhandlungen Der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie Der Wissen. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531050799
ISBN
9783531050799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Hinge, George. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763540643
ISBN
9788763540643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.74
€ 52.54

Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996403
ISBN
9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardback. A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596. Egypt 1892-2007. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. 224 pages. A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 22. Weight: 596.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639267
ISBN
9780748639267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.81
€ 119.62

Paperback. Melvyn Bragg explores a controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on history Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 x 8pp colour. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340839829
ISBN
9780340839829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSGS. 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
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637198
ISBN
9780691637198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.59

Paperback. A third edition of this anthology of the most influential and comprehensive writing on the theory of fiction from the 19th century, through modernism and postmodernism to the present. Editor(s): Hoffman, Michael J.; Murphy, Patrick D. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335214
ISBN
9780822335214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.11

Hardback. Editor(s): Laird, Holly A. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 315 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137393791
ISBN
9781137393791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. In Savoring the Salt, a host of poets, scholars, writers, political activists and filmmakers recall Toni Cade Bambara, a woman whose voice and vision played a vital role in shaping African American culture in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Holmes, Linda Janet; Wall, Cheryl A. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136254
ISBN
9781592136254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

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