Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Based on original archival research and dozens of interviews, Kerouac is a fresh, compelling, and substantive critical reassessment of Kerouac's brief and often chaotic life. Num Pages: 484 pages, 24 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878333059
- ISBN
- 9780878333059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.47
€ 29.99
€ 28.47
Hardback. Mahmoud Baroud here conducts a detailed comparative textual analysis of 'Hayy Bin Yaqzan' and 'Robinson Crusoe', and concludes that Daniel Defoe was likely to have been deeply influenced by Ibn Tufayl's Arabic text. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848855526
- ISBN
- 9781848855526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.89€ 135.20
€ 152.89
€ 135.20
Hardback. The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the 19th century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn from the thriving periodicals culture of British India are examined alongside novels and travel-writing by authors including Emma Roberts and Philip Meadows Taylor. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748640683
- ISBN
- 9780748640683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.84€ 101.60
€ 105.84
€ 101.60
Paperback. Between Two Shores / Idir Dha Chladach Series: Reimagining Ireland. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Galway. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KOG0005815
- ISBN
- 9783034301442
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 32.00
€ 32.00
Hardback. Series: A Sheed & Ward Classic. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742550438
- ISBN
- 9780742550438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.68
€ 180.68
Paperback. Series: A Sheed & Ward Classic. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 37. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742550445
- ISBN
- 9780742550445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.29
€ 81.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 2ADS; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813054001
- ISBN
- 9780813054001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.89
€ 36.89
Paperback. This classic study, now made available again to readers, shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641949
- ISBN
- 9780748641949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.69
€ 41.99
€ 36.69
Paperback. Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. This title includes short stories that represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. Series: Ohio RIS Africa Series. Num Pages: 181 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB; FA; FYB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896802063
- ISBN
- 9780896802063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.84
€ 21.99
€ 21.84
Hardcover. For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. By using prose as opposed to verse, this title ensures that the translations remain as close and accurate to the original as possible. Editor(s): Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905816026
- ISBN
- 9781905816026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.04
€ 140.04
Paperback. An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy. Editor(s): McFarlane, James Walter; Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 688
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140138320
- ISBN
- 9780140138320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.42
€ 21.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Reviews 3000 years of apocalyptic thought. Tracing the history of millenarianism from ancient times to the 17th century, this book investigates the modern and postmodern debates in which apocalyptic themes are recirculated, from Zoroaster to Derrida. Num Pages: 350 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCA; HPCB; HRA; JFCX; JFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631190820
- ISBN
- 9780631190820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 53.85
€ 53.99
€ 53.85
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823253111
- ISBN
- 9780823253111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career. Num Pages: 630 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1436.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 630
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674051065
- ISBN
- 9780674051065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.30
€ 54.99
€ 45.30
Paperback. The once influential theory Neoanalysis held that motifs and episodes in the "Iliad" derive from the "Aethiopis. "Given its vast potential implications for the "Iliad" s origins, the recent revival of Neoanalysis in subtler form inspires this critical reappraisal by Malcolm Davies of that theory s more sophisticated reincarnation." Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088313
- ISBN
- 9780674088313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.22
€ 25.99
€ 22.22
Paperback. Malcolm Davies provides the first full commentary on the surviving fragments of the four epics that recount the story of the Seven's failed assault against Thebes and the successful assault in the next generation. He sets them in context and examines whether artistic depictions of the relevant myths can help reconstruct the lost epics' contents. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417243
- ISBN
- 9780674417243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.48
€ 25.99
€ 22.48
Paperback. Explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times onwards, the author applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do theology'. Series Editor(s): Begbie, Revd Dr. Jeremy; Hart, Professor Trevor; Lundin, Professor Roger. Series: Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 516. Theology and the Poetic Imagination. Series: Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts. 268 pages. Explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times onwards, the author applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do theology'. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 17. Weight: 524.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409449362
- ISBN
- 9781409449362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 53.12
€ 54.99
€ 53.12
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Master Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403900777
- ISBN
- 9781403900777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.43
€ 48.43
Paperback. A commentary on the text of Richmond Lattimore's English translation of Homer's Iliad. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 301 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 301
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226898551
- ISBN
- 9780226898551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.96
€ 25.99
€ 20.96
Paperback. Translator(s): Godzich, Myrna; Godzich, Wlad. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 136 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 260 x 10. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816613847
- ISBN
- 9780816613847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.20
€ 29.99
€ 27.20
A fully annotated edition of the most dramatic part of the most famous story of the Arthurian legend. It is presented with the original spelling to bring it as close as possible to the medieval original. Editor(s): Malory, Sir Thomas. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209473
- ISBN
- 9780872209473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.56€ 39.93
€ 50.56
€ 39.93
Lucrezia Marinella and the 'Querelle Des Femmes' in Seventeenth-Centur...
Malpezzi Price, Paola; Ristaino, Christine
Hardback. This book argues that Lucrezia Marinella should be included in the Italian and European literary canons as a most remarkable contributor. It examines the place that Marinella holds within the dominant literary tradition of seventeenth-century Italy as a writer, as well as a woman who lived within a predominantly patriarchal culture. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473513
- ISBN
- 9781611473513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.62
€ 119.62
Paperback. The eternal Don Juan, the creation more than 350 years ago of a monk and dramatist known as Tirso de Molina, has appeared on the boards as a thinker and fool, hero and villain, but never as anything less than a great lover. This book presents different aspects of the Don's progress through a half-dozen countries, epochs, and intellectual climates. Editor(s): Mandel, Oscar. Num Pages: 731 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 3J; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 993.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 731
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803281370
- ISBN
- 9780803281370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.84
€ 51.84
Paperback. Translator(s): Fulton, Bruce; Fulton, Ju-Chan. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DQ; DSB; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231181013
- ISBN
- 9780231181013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.08
€ 36.99
€ 27.08