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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349433773
ISBN
9781349433773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Eighteen new essays by respected critics on Shakespeare and his dramatic antecedents, contemporaries, and successors, offering an up-to-date survey-history of Renaissance theater and examples of scholarly and critical methodology. Editor(s): Elton, W. R.; Long, William B. Num Pages: 307 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874133332
ISBN
9780874133332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.52

Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813116129
ISBN
9780813116129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.48

Paperback. Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. Series: Reading Greek. Num Pages: 316 pages, 75 b/w illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 634. Text and Vocabulary. Series: Reading Greek. 318 pages, 75 b/w illus. 3 maps. Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Dimension: 245 x 175 x 16. Weight: 636.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521698511
ISBN
9780521698511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.73

Hardcover. This book asks why Bronte, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137007025
ISBN
9781137007025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482836
ISBN
9781611482836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.93

Paperback. This text describes children's fiction about Native Americans and explains the cultural contexts of each work. It provides a balanced discussion of the portrayal of native peoples and customs in children's literature, taking into account that some publications have been inaccurate. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; YFB; YQEF. Category: (EJ) Primary; (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897747820
ISBN
9780897747820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.33

Paperback. Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900--2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. * Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage with broader questions about aesthetics, language, culture and imagination. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 664 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1122.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
664
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225546
ISBN
9780631225546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.51

Hardback. Brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. This book helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage with broader questions about aesthetics, language, culture and imagination. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 664 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1262.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
664
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225539
ISBN
9780631225539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.37

Hardcover. Offers a comprehensive analysis of Northern Irish poetry focusing on the colonial, political, and cultural underpinnings that have shaped artistic expression in a variety of ways. This book also focuses on both the better-known contemporary Northern Irish poets as well as their more obscure but no less significant counterparts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194291
ISBN
9781845194291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.03

Paperback. Groundbreaking study of theoretical, political, and environmental issues around the culture and ethics of petroculture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120363
ISBN
9781772120363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981. Num Pages: 175 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810814134
ISBN
9780810814134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.98

Hardback. Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution and influenced the Romantic authors. The anthology features an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Editor(s): Mee, Jon; Fallon, David. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JF; DQ; DSB; HBJD; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444330434
ISBN
9781444330434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.41

Paperback. Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader presents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution and influenced the Romantic authors. The anthology features an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the 'Revolution debate' - from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Editor(s): Mee, Jon; Fallon, David. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JF; DQ; DSB; HBJD; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444330441
ISBN
9781444330441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.23

Hardback. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. Important because it subverts the conventional understanding of what is literary or not, dialogue has ties to Platonism, the dialectic and imaginative fiction. Num Pages: 316 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714594
ISBN
9780804714594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.07

Hardcover. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810882270
ISBN
9780810882270
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.99

Hardback. This work begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 308. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333593202
ISBN
9780333593202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.40

Paperback. This work begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333593219
ISBN
9780333593219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.41

Hardcover. This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604742
ISBN
9780230604742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.83

Paperback. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. This title focuses on the curious artefacts that literature has to offer. It lets you find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848312470
ISBN
9781848312470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.40

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