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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621848
ISBN
9781909621848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination', humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. This book explores the social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Bourgois, Philippe I. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223498
ISBN
9780631223498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 48.24

Hardback. This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627653
ISBN
9780748627653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.89
€ 108.53

Paperback. In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its comedy. Editor(s): Blake, Prof. Ann. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 192 pages, approx 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713662900
ISBN
9780713662900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901619
ISBN
9780226901619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.18

Paperback. Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Translator(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJC; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022225
ISBN
9780674022225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.56

Hardcover. "Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures for 2014." Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939056
ISBN
9780813939056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.18

Paperback. Described by Brecht as "a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all", Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Editor(s): Worrall, Non. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713685114
ISBN
9780713685114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.43

Paperback. In his introduction to this now classic anthology, Karl Beckson traces the development of the Decadent or Aesthetic movement, illuminating the selected work of artists such as Wilde, Yeats, Symons, and Beerbohm that follows. Editor(s): Beckson, Karl. Num Pages: 382 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897330442
ISBN
9780897330442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.36

Hardcover. Features witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This title covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and lost plays and less well-known works of poetry. Series: Big Ideas. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1162.
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241182611
ISBN
9780241182611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. 'Oxford Student Texts' provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Up-to-date to meet today's curriculum requirements for post-16 study, this series is designed to motivate and encourage students working on these challenging writers for the first time. Editor(s): Moore, Jackie. Series Editor(s): Croft, Steven. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map, facsim., photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XS) Student text. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
FIRST EDITION
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198325741
ISBN
9780198325741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.65

Paperback. Examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. This book questions established terms such as 'Modernism' or 'the Angry Young Men' and explores new terms such as 'critical realism' and literary developments such as 'the Scottish New Wave'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643356
ISBN
9780748643356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.31

Hardback. Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery's poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery's work to be a case study of the dramatic transformation of nature in art and literature since World War II. Series: Oxford English Monographs. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198798385
ISBN
9780198798385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.91

Paperback. Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work; putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Series: Film and Literature Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 4KLR; CJB; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Bilingual, Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471890161
ISBN
9781471890161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.28

Paperback. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521530
ISBN
9781487521530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612051598
ISBN
9781612051598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041506
ISBN
9780226041506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 79.37

Paperback. This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's "Selected Poems" by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references, literary, factual and historical. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
6th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571170821
ISBN
9780571170821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.95

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
237
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403965240
ISBN
9781403965240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 60.01

hardcover. This book argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107136076
ISBN
9781107136076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.97

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165945
ISBN
9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.16

Paperback. In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the history of the 'translation' of poetry from a spoken medium to a written, or printed, medium. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847772121
ISBN
9781847772121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.43

Paperback. This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe. Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole. Series: Blackwell Ancient Religions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405106566
ISBN
9781405106566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.27

Paperback. A stunning new collection from the US Poet Laureate and one of the world's most popular poets. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330413046
ISBN
9780330413046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.72

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