Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113890
- ISBN
- 9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.88€ 83.63
€ 107.88
€ 83.63
Paperback. Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies to capture apparent inequalities of wealth and power. This study charts the terms through which these writers rendered class distinctions. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472031818
- ISBN
- 9780472031818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.94
€ 34.94
Hardback. The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. Num Pages: 280 pages, 127 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768740
- ISBN
- 9780804768740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.95
€ 98.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483222
- ISBN
- 9781611483222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.29
€ 126.29
Paperback. A quick fix of fiction in this age of speed and technology. Translator(s): Dahl Buchanan, Rhona. Series: Secret Weavers Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CJB; DCF; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996915
- ISBN
- 9781893996915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.30
€ 17.99
€ 17.30
Paperback. Explores the act of creation - in literature, film, art, and dance - to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of modern fiction. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Swallow Press
- Edition
- New Updated Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804011501
- ISBN
- 9780804011501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.79
€ 17.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldua, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers Editor(s): Keating, AnaLouise; Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria. Num Pages: 292 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ; JFSK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 611. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292743953
- ISBN
- 9780292743953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.75
€ 30.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147873
- ISBN
- 9780231147873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.61
€ 36.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443523
- ISBN
- 9780140443523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 23. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358860
- ISBN
- 9780817358860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.50
€ 29.50
Hardback. A memoir of a life in exile. Anca Vlasopolos recounts her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States. She writes about the peculiar attributes of displacement in the comtemporary world; the ambiguous identities, and the nostalgia for places dimly recalled. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121309
- ISBN
- 9780231121309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.63€ 46.37
€ 58.63
€ 46.37
Paperback. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. This work is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between him and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Translator(s): Watts, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447804
- ISBN
- 9780140447804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Presents issue 19 of Aarhus University Press' arts and humanities journal "The Dolphin", analysing the impact of the French Revolution on English literature. This work covers topics such as Burke and the debate on the Revolution, Jane Austen's political silence, and William Blake's revolutionary rhetoric. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 148 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772883694
- ISBN
- 9788772883694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.01
€ 13.01
Paperback. An anthology of essays that approach literature as communicative structures dependent on media and on rhetorical and narrative modes. Ranging from ancient Greece to the present, the essays are preoccupied with the formal constructions of literature rather than conceptions of particular aesthetic experiences. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778386793
- ISBN
- 9788778386793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.95
€ 17.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Dreyer, Kirsten. Num Pages: 606 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 180 x 34. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 1075
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772894713
- ISBN
- 9788772894713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.28€ 70.51
€ 90.28
€ 70.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Anderson, Howard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700600038
- ISBN
- 9780700600038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.72
€ 35.72
Hardback. Series: Index of American Periodical Verse. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810814806
- ISBN
- 9780810814806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 223.69
€ 223.69
Hardcover. Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Empedocles, Alcmaeon, and Hippo. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 169 x 40. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674997066
- ISBN
- 9780674997066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.98
€ 33.99
€ 28.98
Hardcover. Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, along with chapters on early Greek medicine and the Derveni Papyrus. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 171 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674997073
- ISBN
- 9780674997073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.94
€ 33.99
€ 28.94
Hardcover. Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Thrasymachus, and Hippias, along with testimonia relating to the life, views, and argumentative style of Socrates. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674997097
- ISBN
- 9780674997097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.94
€ 33.99
€ 28.94