Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day. Editor(s): Costlow, Jane T.; Sandler, Stephanie; Vowles, Judith. Num Pages: 372 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731553
- ISBN
- 9780804731553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.94
€ 42.99
€ 38.94
Hardcover. Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224636
- ISBN
- 9780230224636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Jane Wheare concerns herself with Virginia Woolf's artistry in "The Voyage Out", "Night and Day" and "The Years", where Woolf exploited and developed the "realist" model, finding in it the most appropriate vehicle through which to put across obliquely her own ideas about women and society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333443446
- ISBN
- 9780333443446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.20
€ 194.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; FA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312210953
- ISBN
- 9780312210953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403942760
- ISBN
- 9781403942760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Hardcover. Examines the integral role that six female authors played in Schiller's ambitious literary journal, "Die Horen" (1795-97). Beyond a critical discussion of the women's publications in Schiller's journal, this work addresses the range of problems associated with women's writing and publishing during the late eighteenth century. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874139624
- ISBN
- 9780874139624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.23
€ 137.23
Hardcover. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014074
- ISBN
- 9780226014074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.65€ 55.72
€ 64.65
€ 55.72
Paperback. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. Editor(s): Burroway, Janet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014104
- ISBN
- 9780226014104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.36
€ 24.99
€ 20.36
Hardback. Leading New Zealand and Australian children's authors tell the stories behind their books and share some of their writing secrets. Num Pages: 227 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810829459
- ISBN
- 9780810829459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.66
€ 106.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Evans, Janet. Num Pages: 340 pages, 2 black & white tables, 127 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSY; JNLB; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138797772
- ISBN
- 9781138797772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; JFD; UD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Edition
- updated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262533485
- ISBN
- 9780262533485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.10
€ 35.99
€ 28.10
Paperback. Series: Rhetoric and Society. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476051
- ISBN
- 9780801476051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.58
€ 38.99
€ 35.58
Paperback. 'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one .. It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847085368
- ISBN
- 9781847085368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. 'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300143102
- ISBN
- 9780300143102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.44
€ 18.44
Paperback. In a unique contribution to understanding the interaction of language policy and planning in modern conflict resolution, Janet Mullerprovides an insider account of the search for improved status for the Irish language in Northern Ireland from the 1980s." Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 294 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311613
- ISBN
- 9781349311613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823272891
- ISBN
- 9780823272891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Paperback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823272907
- ISBN
- 9780823272907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2GK; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165181
- ISBN
- 9780231165181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.20
€ 86.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 line illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691169026
- ISBN
- 9780691169026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 42.58
€ 52.89
€ 42.58
Hardcover. Features a collection of facts and insights into the life and times of the great novelist and the attitudes and customs that shaped both her and her work. This title looks at the facts of author's life and times, as well as stories about her novels, including: the marriage proposal that Austen accepted, only to change her mind, and more. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780233005140
- ISBN
- 9780233005140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.09
€ 11.09
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107494701
- ISBN
- 9781107494701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Paperback. This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 234 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 234 pages, 3 b/w illus. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight: 388.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521279581
- ISBN
- 9780521279581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.29
€ 40.29
Paperback. Janet Todd is one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers. The author discusses women and issues of gender from the Restoration to Romanticism. She examines the complex connections between art and life as revealed by women authors. The author's previous books have sold well. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745610559
- ISBN
- 9780745610559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.74
€ 24.74
Paperback. An accessible 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, including full chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 274. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. 176 pages, 1 b/w illus. An accessible 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, including full chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSGS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 9. Weight: 292.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521674928
- ISBN
- 9780521674928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63