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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139030
ISBN
9781571139030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Hardcover. A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam. Translator(s): Metzger, Michael M. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 508 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 47. Weight in Grams: 960.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139085
ISBN
9781571139085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.66

Hardcover. Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139108
ISBN
9781571139108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Hardcover. Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Editor(s): Osborne, Dora. Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook. Num Pages: 218 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CF; DSB; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139238
ISBN
9781571139238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Hardcover. A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature. Editor(s): Vanwesenbeeck, Birger; Gelber, Mark H. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 278 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139245
ISBN
9781571139245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.78

Hardcover. Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Editor(s): Herrmann, Elisabeth; Smith-Prei, Carrie; Taberner, Stuart. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139252
ISBN
9781571139252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.80

Hardcover. Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139337
ISBN
9781571139337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Paperback. A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century. Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139375
ISBN
9781571139375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.95

Hardcover. Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the literature of the later GDR. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139535
ISBN
9781571139535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.80

Hardcover. Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139641
ISBN
9781571139641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Hardcover. Presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary fiction, its virtues and vices, and its distinguished practitioners. Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 184 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575866017
ISBN
9781575866017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.66

Paperback. A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463775
ISBN
9781580463775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463898
ISBN
9781580463898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.30

Hardcover. Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy. Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465281
ISBN
9781580465281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Paperback. Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the 'girl power' movement of the 1990's, this title provides a critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. It traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. Num Pages: 338 pages, 10 Halftoness. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137237
ISBN
9781592137237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.67

Paperback. Varieties of marriage in early American and British novels Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688320
ISBN
9781611688320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.70

Paperback. The internationalization of American studies Editor(s): Shu, Yuan; Pease, Donald E. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688474
ISBN
9781611688474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.30

Paperback. Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH; HBTZ1; JFSL4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688566
ISBN
9781611688566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.82

Paperback. Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688634
ISBN
9781611688634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.30

Paperback. This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naive tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688986
ISBN
9781611688986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 38.57

Paperback. The first book about the literature of the Irish in London examines over 30 novels, short stories and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, to investigate the complex psychological landscapes of belonging and cultural allegiance found in these unique and intensely personal perspectives on the Irish experience of migration. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380154
ISBN
9781781380154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.21

Hardcover. Edited and annotated translation of Stanislaw Lem's previously unpublished fifteen-year correspondence with his principal American translator. Translator(s): Swirski, Peter. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; BGL; BJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380178
ISBN
9781781380178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.19

Hardcover. This book considers the kinds of responsibility which modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380352
ISBN
9781781380352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.50

Hardcover. A path-breaking analysis of hybridity in the literatures of the Francophone Pacific. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MK; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380376
ISBN
9781781380376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.50

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