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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142786
ISBN
9780231142786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.60
€ 80.20

Paperback. This edition of Friedman's popular work contains the full text of the original volume along with 2 related articles by the author and a comprehensive introduction. This work is suitable for advanced students and academics in anthropology. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 356 pages, figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: 1F; DSA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761989349
ISBN
9780761989349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.92

Hardback. These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess. Editor(s): Frank, Marcie. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270286
ISBN
9780823270286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.02

Paperback. These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270293
ISBN
9780823270293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. . Good clean copy fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000211
ISBN
9780804717434
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Explores three social domains for textual production - the sixteenth-century English court as the location of high literariness; the theater, especially as a site for controversy around cross-dressing; and, the New World as the place where the slaughter of native populations was carried out in the name of ridding the hemisphere of sodomites. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232215
ISBN
9780823232215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.88

paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326724
ISBN
9780822326724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.77

Hardback. In readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729826
ISBN
9780804729826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.16

Hardback. Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century. Series: Literary Modernism Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292723399
ISBN
9780292723399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.45

Hardcover. The author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867552
ISBN
9780801867552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.12

Hardcover. Since we all have one and use it every day, why is it that people squirm when the anus is mentioned? In "Reading from Behind" Jonathan Allan explores this question and more in a playful, yet scholarly exploration of everything from porn to poetry. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889773844
ISBN
9780889773844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.82

Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530561
ISBN
9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.77

Paperback. Contains poems, prose passages and quotations about love and marriage. This title includes familiar blessings and verses. It covers various sorts of readings you could wish for. It also includes advice on how to choose the right readings for the occasion and tips on how to ensure that everything runs smoothly on the Wedding day. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; GBC; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 162. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Random House Books London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KEX0233346
ISBN
9781905211098
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563433
ISBN
9780099563433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322962
ISBN
9780822322962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Hardback. Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635774
ISBN
9780691635774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.23

Hardback. This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761222
ISBN
9780804761222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.61

Hardcover. Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) had an enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. This book offers an exploration of the afterlife of this Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226512037
ISBN
9780226512037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.24
€ 49.84

Hardback. In his second critical study of modern Spanish poetry, Mayhew explores the literary self-consciousness of several major poets - Guillen, Salinas, Aleixandre, Valente, Gil de Biedma, and Guillermo Carnero. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480757
ISBN
9781611480757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.62

Paperback. Editor(s): Monroe, Jonathan. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487514
ISBN
9780801487514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

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