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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Editor(s): Cartmell, Deborah. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 25. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444334975
ISBN
9781444334975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.18

Paperback. This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated and successful writers. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444336207
ISBN
9781444336207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Hardback. A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Editor(s): Martiny, Erik. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 660 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1298.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
660
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444336733
ISBN
9781444336733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.15

Hardback. A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Editor(s): Hose, Martin; Schenker, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 181 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444339420
ISBN
9781444339420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 215.26

Hardback. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Editor(s): Miller, John F.; Newlands, Carole E. Series: HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 252 x 30. Weight in Grams: 968.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444339673
ISBN
9781444339673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.23

Paperback. Editor(s): Aldama, Frederick Luis; Gonzalez, Christopher. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 316 pages, 51 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AKLC; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477309155
ISBN
9781477309155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Series: NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479818365
ISBN
9781479818365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. Spanning the 1990s to the present, the author takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands, whether actual or imagined, play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US citizenship and belonging. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2CSR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479826926
ISBN
9781479826926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Hardcover. Presents some of the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, this book responds to critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. Editor(s): Luciano, Dana; Wilson, Ivy. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479857722
ISBN
9781479857722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.77

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479889327
ISBN
9781479889327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 275 x 31. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501700613
ISBN
9781501700613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.72

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501703072
ISBN
9781501703072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Paperback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always thereNhidden in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781509500659
ISBN
9781509500659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.70

Hardback. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502684
ISBN
9781509502684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502691
ISBN
9781509502691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Paperback. In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 2. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509513321
ISBN
9781509513321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Paperback. Editor(s): Capshaw, Katharine; Duane, Anna Mae. Num Pages: 400 pages, 52. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 254 x 51. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781517900274
ISBN
9781517900274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Examining Edward Said's career, this book provides a critical survey of his writings and an interim assessment of his achievements in the cultural and political spheres. It includes essays on the Arab-Islamic context of Said's work, his reception among Israeli and American Jews, and the institutional contexts of his cultural criticism. Editor(s): Sprinker, Michael. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557862297
ISBN
9781557862297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Hardcover. The study and the understanding of Anglo-Saxon history, literature and culture depends on the presentation of unique manuscripts as modern printed editions. This book addresses the questions raised by this transformation and provides a critical and practical account of possible solutions to them. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABA; CBW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557864383
ISBN
9781557864383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Paperback. Although Samuel Johnson succeeded in becoming one of the leading literary figures of his age, he always suffered from a heightened sense of failure. In this account of his life, DeMaria describes his subject in terms of Johnson's own personal and professional hopes for himself. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557866646
ISBN
9781557866646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.60

Paperback. This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 365 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; BG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557866653
ISBN
9781557866653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.10

Paperback. Shows us the work of eminent and underrepresented deaf and hearing writers to encourage readers to come to terms with ingrained perceptions and biases towards the deaf. The author introduces three lesser known deaf writers: Charlotte Elizabeth (1790-1846), Howard Tracy Hofsteater (1909-64), and Douglas Bullard (1937-2005). Editor(s): Sayers, Edna Edith. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563685392
ISBN
9781563685392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.20

Paperback. Presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work. Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the neglected later ones, the contributors illuminate little-known aspects of this daring author's work, and highlight his accomplishments as an experimental writer. Editor(s): Miller, D. Quentin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566397377
ISBN
9781566397377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 38.62

Hardcover. New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Editor(s): Hofmann, Gert; MagShamhrain, Rachel; Pajevic, Marko; Shields, Michael. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571132901
ISBN
9781571132901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.62

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