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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Editor(s): Zinn, Gesa; Stanley, Maureen Tobin. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 10. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230339996
ISBN
9780230339996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardcover. Offers a consideration of T S Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, this title discovers similar patterns of Incarnational thinking that emerge in each. Series: Studies in Christianity and Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602582552
ISBN
9781602582552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.48

Paperback. Contains readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this literary form reveals about the "art of living." This book offers advice on the specific demands essays make and the opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330303
ISBN
9780820330303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.14

Paperback. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among various forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, and racism. This anthology explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Editor(s): Gaard, Greta; Murphy, Patrick Dennis. Series: The Environment and the Human Condition. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067082
ISBN
9780252067082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.08

Hardback. This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623716
ISBN
9780748623716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.99
€ 97.67

Paperback. Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968772
ISBN
9780241968772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719008368
ISBN
9780719008368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.29

hardcover. This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction. Translator(s): Grossman, Edith. Num Pages: 500 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162. Weight in Grams: 866. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, with light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000343
ISBN
9780224072786
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218329
ISBN
9780300218329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482706
ISBN
9781611482706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349515554
ISBN
9781349515554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Hardcover. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403921710
ISBN
9781403921710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. A guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies. Each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method. Editor(s): Griffin, Gabriele. Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; GPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748683437
ISBN
9780748683437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.17

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813226095
ISBN
9780813226095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.28

Paperback. Series: Literary Research: Strategies and Sources. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810877689
ISBN
9780810877689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.79

Paperback. Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013. Editor(s): Safran, Gabriella; Kilcher, Andreas. Num Pages: 426 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DS; HRAX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019622
ISBN
9780253019622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. In a post-structuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, the author investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HBAH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520089358
ISBN
9780520089358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.74

Paperback. This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers. Editor(s): McIntire, Gabrielle. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107672574
ISBN
9781107672574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403991218
ISBN
9781403991218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Paperback. This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349340859
ISBN
9781349340859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Authors here investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear. Others turn to emotions spread throughout society by contemporary events, such as a ruler's death, the outbreak of war, or religious schism, and discuss how such emotions have widespread consequences in both social practice and theory. Editor(s): Paster, Gail Kern; Rowe, Katherine; Floyd-Wilson, Mary. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 5S; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218725
ISBN
9780812218725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480607
ISBN
9780801480607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. Proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience. Num Pages: 290 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226213828
ISBN
9780226213828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HRA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349465880
ISBN
9781349465880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

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