Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Integrates archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. This book traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138459
- ISBN
- 9780691138459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
€ 33.64
Paperback. The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748611959
- ISBN
- 9780748611959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535030
- ISBN
- 9781557535030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.66
€ 51.66
paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2H; 3JM; DSA; DSBH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transcript Publishing Germany
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837636666
- ISBN
- 9783837636666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.21
€ 51.99
€ 37.21
Hardback. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Editor(s): Stock, Markus. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644663
- ISBN
- 9781442644663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.65
€ 72.65
The Undiscover'd Country: W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (Studi...
Markus Zisselsberger (Ed.)
Paperback. W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 406 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Zisselsberger, Markus. The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 560.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 404
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135667
- ISBN
- 9781571135667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.99
€ 44.99
€ 41.99
Hardcover. A multinational perspective runs through this volume, which focuses on dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. The contributions include discussions of such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field. Editor(s): Barr, Marleen S. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- KDenn
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691258
- ISBN
- 9780847691258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.55
€ 173.55
Hardcover. Sensation novels - characterized by emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots - had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s. Exploring the metaphor of marital violence, the author examines the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; JFFE3; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1061.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919492
- ISBN
- 9780813919492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.51
€ 70.51
Features a modernised text of Marlowe's play with annotation on the page, a comprehensive introduction, and related texts, including selections from Machiavelli's "Prince", Gentillet's "Anti-Machiavel", and Bacon's "The Advancement of Learning". Editor(s): Lynch, Stephen J. Num Pages: 144 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209671
- ISBN
- 9780872209671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.01
€ 41.99
€ 30.01
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781871551884
- ISBN
- 9781871551884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.44
€ 16.99
€ 15.44
Hardcover. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Berg Publishers Oxford
- Number of pages
- 236
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRS0018700
- ISBN
- 9780854969098
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Berg Publishers Oxford
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0018701
- ISBN
- 9780854969098
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, this book analyzes the ways in which British and American women poets such as H.D., Stevie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Ai, and Carol Ann Duffy often operate as cultural insiders, consuming music, movies, and magazines through poems that do not always conform to appropriation or critique. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386212
- ISBN
- 9781137386212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.62
€ 64.62
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137533234
- ISBN
- 9781137533234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.26€ 46.59
€ 130.26
€ 46.59
Paperback. This introductory guide to one of Jonson's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading. Series: Shakespeare Handbooks. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379801
- ISBN
- 9781137379801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.61
€ 32.61
Paperback. Includes essays that engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 illus., musical examples. BIC Classification: AV; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295990064
- ISBN
- 9780295990064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Hardcover. This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Num Pages: 516 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 516
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715614
- ISBN
- 9780804715614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.52
€ 169.52
paperback. Combining a new genealogy for the gothic novel with original research into gothic contexts in German idealist thought and romantic psychology, The Gothic Text offers lively readings of British and Continental novels pointing back toward the Enlightenment and ahead toward Freud. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739139
- ISBN
- 9780804739139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development by studying important critics, and analyzing cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727082
- ISBN
- 9780804727082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.21
€ 101.21
hardcover. Includes essays that engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth, a period in which modern evolution of the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as artistic form. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 illus., musical examples. BIC Classification: AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 30. Weight in Grams: 749.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295990057
- ISBN
- 9780295990057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.70
€ 137.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Marshall, C. W.; Hawkins, Tom. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472588838
- ISBN
- 9781472588838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.10
€ 42.99
€ 36.10
Hardback. The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 430 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220909
- ISBN
- 9780631220909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.14
€ 116.14
Paperback. The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220916
- ISBN
- 9780631220916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.04
€ 47.04
Paperback. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321170
- ISBN
- 9780822321170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42