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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Entering the debate on American literary history, this study offers a perspective on what constitutes not only the canon of American literature, but also the notion of America itself. The author argues for a conception of American culture which is more responsive to trans-national ideologies. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3658 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311690
ISBN
9780822311690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Presenting an abridgement of the author's 2004 translation of "The Mangy Parrot", this title aims to captures the narrative drive, literary innovations, and biting social commentary. Translator(s): Frye, David. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Abridged ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872206700
ISBN
9780872206700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.02

Paperback. Studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. This title argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. It shows that rhapsodic practice is best understood as an evolving combination of revelation, interpretation, recitation, and dramatic delivery. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 71. Weight in Grams: 1320.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
350
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055896
ISBN
9780674055896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.65

Hardcover. Editor(s): Fisher, Tyler. Num Pages: 128 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
Publisher
Wings Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916727420
ISBN
9780916727420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.93

This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities. Series: Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442237605
ISBN
9781442237605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.46

Paperback / so. Series: Grundkurs Literaturgeschichte. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531115313
ISBN
9783531115313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.81

Paperback / so. Series: Grundkurs Literaturgeschichte. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531115320
ISBN
9783531115320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.64

Paperback. Students of English literature rarely receive instruction in versification (theory or practice) at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. After an introduction and discussion of basic principles, this title includes a chapter to quantitative verse (Latin), syllabic or isosyllabic verse (French), and accentual verse (Old English/Germanic). Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268026035
ISBN
9780268026035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

hardcover. The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 264 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087751
ISBN
9780802087751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445193
ISBN
9781885445193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JJ; AVA; AVGC4; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319476407
ISBN
9783319476407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 111 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231048187
ISBN
9780231048187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.90

Paperback. Argues that modern fiction, from Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, surges with libidinal currents. This work maps the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, and constructs a model for interpreting sexuality. Num Pages: 528 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064673
ISBN
9780226064673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691639123
ISBN
9780691639123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.69

Paperback. The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bedier's method in creating his classic retelling. Translator(s): Gallagher, Edward J. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
210
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603849005
ISBN
9781603849005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.28

Paperback. This is a new edition of the second volume of an anthology that has been called "the new standard."

Editor(s): Black, Rabbi Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; LePan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Ms. Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire. Num Pages: 1720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 244 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1684.
Publisher
Broadview Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554813124
ISBN
9781554813124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 822.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9780300208306
ISBN
9780300208306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.00

Paperback. Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England Editor(s): Bristow, Joseph. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821416280
ISBN
9780821416280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Series: Edinburgh History of Twentieth-century Literature in Britain. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380. Series: Edinburgh History of Twentieth-century Literature in Britain. 236 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 152 x 233 x 14. Weight: 380.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748633951
ISBN
9780748633951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823239108
ISBN
9780823239108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
New World Library United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608681662
ISBN
9781608681662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. Includes essays by Julius Baum, C G Jung, C Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili. Editor(s): Campbell, Joseph. Series: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018232
ISBN
9780691018232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.32

Paperback. Focusing on the most recent triad of Italian poetic genius--Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Eugenio Montale--Joseph Cary guides us through the first few decades of twentieth-century Italy. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226095271
ISBN
9780226095271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics. Editor(s): Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary. Num Pages: 362 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072427
ISBN
9780231072427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.28
€ 100.96

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