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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. An examination of how the films we see and the books we read affect our faith and our view of the world. With the Apostles' Creed as his foundation, author May interprets popular works such as The Grapes of Wrath, Cool Hand Luke, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Saving Private Ryan through the lens of religious faith. Series: Communication, Culture, and Religion. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580511063
ISBN
9781580511063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.75

Hardback. This study sets Goethe's creative work in the context of his biography and of the literary and political movements of his time. It gives an account of Goethe's wide range of public activities, and also covers his less well-known literary output. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; BG; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631163763
ISBN
9780631163763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.23

Paperback. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is Germany's most celebrated, prolific and versatile writer. This book sets Goethe's creative work in the context of his biography and of the literary and political movements of his time. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631231738
ISBN
9780631231738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1989
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349197675
ISBN
9781349197675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.94

Paperback. * An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405124805
ISBN
9781405124805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.76

Hardcover. * An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405124799
ISBN
9781405124799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.27

Hardback. Series: Blackwell History of Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405135023
ISBN
9781405135023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.80

Paperback. The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119045304
ISBN
9781119045304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.97

Hardback. The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631195290
ISBN
9780631195290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.42

Paperback. Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819568748
ISBN
9780819568748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.09

Hardback. Num Pages: 273 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBF; DSC; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136104
ISBN
9780874136104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868198767
ISBN
9780868198767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 20.67

Hardback. An authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript on J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Num Pages: 399 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 36. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
399
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810831179
ISBN
9780810831179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.17

Hardcover. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 33 x 135. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152791
ISBN
9781857152791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.69

Hardcover. Editor(s): Cockshut, A. O. J. Series: The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Num Pages: 624 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1074.
Publisher
Clearway Logistics Phase 2-3
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853310454
ISBN
9781853310454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 103.24

Paperback. First published in 1963 this new edition of Ruskin's writings aims to make his ideas and works accessible to the modern reader. This volume powerfully demonstrates the range and inexhaustible vitality of his prose and provided a reference tool for Victorianists. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917894
ISBN
9780813917894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.26

Hardback. In this book the author argues that the action of Hamlet, particularly its most puzzling and paradoxical element, Hamlet's delay, can best be understood in terms of Heinz Kohut's concept of narcissism. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSGS; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874135336
ISBN
9780874135336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.55

Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322025
ISBN
9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Paperback. Series: Shakespeare Handbooks. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403986894
ISBN
9781403986894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Pace University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780944473009
ISBN
9780944473009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.69

Paperback. Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide ranging and a hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels short stories, films and television series, the author presents a concise history of crime fiction. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; YFB; YQE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415318242
ISBN
9780415318242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

Paperback. John Scattergood's The Complete English Poems of John Skelton (Penguin, 1983) has long been out of print, and at present no other complete edition of the poems is available. This welcome new edition brings together the poems, and many of the Latin paratexts, along with an entirely new introduction and updated reading list and notes. Editor(s): Scattergood, John. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 580 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 830.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319488
ISBN
9781846319488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 46.08

Hardback. Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead - this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Num Pages: 211 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190309
ISBN
9781845190309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.24

Hardback. This study of 10 novels by Dickens brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. The author offers an insight into an original and mythical idea of language. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333521267
ISBN
9780333521267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

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