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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Editor(s): Valente, Joseph; Howes, Marjorie. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268011208
ISBN
9780268011208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.80

Paperback. Susan Srigley argues that Flannery O'Connor's ethics are inextricably linked to her role as a storyteller, and that her moral vision is expressed through the dramatic narrative of her fiction. Srigley elucidates O'Connor's sacramental vision by showing that it is embodied morally within her fiction as an ethic of responsibility. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017804
ISBN
9780268017804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017828
ISBN
9780268017828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardcover. A compilation of bibliographical information accumulated between 1986 and 96 in the annual publication of the New Chaucer Society, "Studies in the Age of Chaucer". Features include an extensive subject index and a descritptive annotation for each entry, identifying the nature of the study. Editor(s): Bowers, Bege K.; Allen, Mark. Num Pages: 752 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; DSK; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1125.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020163
ISBN
9780268020163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

Paperback. Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and conflicting versions of sanctity, this is a critical study of Christian literature, theology, and culture in late medieval England. David Aers considers how certain late medieval Christians and their Church engaged the resources of the Christian tradition in their own historical moment. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020224
ISBN
9780268020224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250 AD, this title interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB; HBLC1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020323
ISBN
9780268020323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters. This title traces the relationship between American literary history and American canons of literary taste from the 1930s onwards. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020361
ISBN
9780268020361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020460
ISBN
9780268020460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Hardcover. In The Extravagant, Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period. He aims to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that is in the world. Also shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268021818
ISBN
9780268021818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.98

Paperback. Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022020
ISBN
9780268022020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.71

Paperback. Offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. This book focuses on discourse and narrative within the fictional universe. It compares multiple medieval Roland texts. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 184 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022037
ISBN
9780268022037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.44

Paperback. Examines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that argue for the localization of British literary history. This title challenges chronologies of literary history that emphasize cultural rupture and view the 'Renaissance' as a sharp break from England's medieval past. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022099
ISBN
9780268022099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and his predecessor Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has remained a fascinating question of both literary and cultural history. This title explores the emergence of an anti-Dantean polemic in Petrarch's work. Editor(s): Bara'nski, Zygmunt G.; Cachey, Theodore J. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022112
ISBN
9780268022112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.50

Paperback. Investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representations. This title argues that the medieval Magdalene story was not discarded as part of Reformation iconoclasm, but was enthusiastically embraced by English writers and artists and retold in a wide array of genres. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 304 pages, 37 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: 3JD; AGR; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022150
ISBN
9780268022150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022297
ISBN
9780268022297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Burns, E Jane; McCracken, Dr Peggy. Num Pages: 269 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022327
ISBN
9780268022327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022365
ISBN
9780268022365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022372
ISBN
9780268022372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.28

Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022396
ISBN
9780268022396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Hardcover. This collection of poems by Ernest Sandeen offer personal insights into life's greatest triumphs and tragedies. Meditating on such topics such as old age, love and eros, mortality, politics, society, religious faith, and birth. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Univ of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022686
ISBN
9780268022686
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

Hardcover. Examining Albert's reading of "The Book of Causes", this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning. Series: Publications in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCB; HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268023515
ISBN
9780268023515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

Paperback. Analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. This book examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268023676
ISBN
9780268023676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.75

Hardcover. This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new "mother tongue" - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025533
ISBN
9780268025533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.12

Paperback. This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new "mother tongue" - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025540
ISBN
9780268025540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.32

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