Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Series: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; AN; BGL; DSGS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 130 x 17. .
- Publisher
- Rydon Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910821060
- ISBN
- 9781910821060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550716276
- ISBN
- 9781550716276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.27
€ 26.99
€ 23.27
For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122342
- ISBN
- 9780813122342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.84
€ 40.84
Paperback. A study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, this book demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. It argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228188
- ISBN
- 9780823228188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.75
€ 46.99
€ 41.75
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820311524
- ISBN
- 9780820311524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.20
€ 154.20
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816635573
- ISBN
- 9780816635573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Hardcover. The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from Italy in the fourteenth by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 177 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1806.
- Publisher
- Pindar Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899828715
- ISBN
- 9781899828715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.83
€ 191.83
Paperback. * An inspiring guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period. * Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more. Editor(s): Hendin, Josephine. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405121804
- ISBN
- 9781405121804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.09
€ 57.09
Paperback. Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AN; DD; DSG; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566396370
- ISBN
- 9781566396370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221277
- ISBN
- 9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.93
€ 63.93
Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415239
- ISBN
- 9781421415239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.45€ 51.80
€ 56.45
€ 51.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176369
- ISBN
- 9780691176369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159232
- ISBN
- 9780691159232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.23
€ 53.48
€ 42.23
Hardback. Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HRKT; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240344
- ISBN
- 9780812240344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.74
€ 83.74
Paperback. Rejecting traditional distinctions between philosophy, history, and literature, this book traces a broad connection between political identity and narrative in the field of political theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729246
- ISBN
- 9780804729246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
Hardback. Rejecting traditional distinctions between philosophy, history, and literature, this book traces a broad connection between political identity and narrative in the field of political theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728188
- ISBN
- 9780804728188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.15
€ 150.15
Hardcover. Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139108
- ISBN
- 9781571139108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816647859
- ISBN
- 9780816647859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816647866
- ISBN
- 9780816647866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Editor(s): Mostow, Joshua S. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2G; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113144
- ISBN
- 9780231113144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.79€ 108.23
€ 143.79
€ 108.23
Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319723
- ISBN
- 9781846319723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.12
€ 141.12
Hardback. Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691090283
- ISBN
- 9780691090283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.23€ 105.41
€ 140.23
€ 105.41
Paperback. Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. This book surveys Gunn's career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks. Editor(s): Weiner, Joshua. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226890449
- ISBN
- 9780226890449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardcover. Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist. He was fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for expressionist architecture. This title describes Scheerbart's life, and explains the ways in which 'The Light Club of Batavia' inspired him to produce art of uncommon breadth. Num Pages: 104 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226514574
- ISBN
- 9780226514574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77