Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health. Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 36. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253206916
- ISBN
- 9780253206916
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.82
€ 23.99
€ 21.82
Paperback. Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals & wonder. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 377 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSB; HBG; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 377
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292737464
- ISBN
- 9780292737464
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. There is something offensive about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope. Series: Robert B Heilman Books. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987590
- ISBN
- 9780295987590
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through the production of public effects. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335498
- ISBN
- 9780822335498
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064593
- ISBN
- 9780252064593
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.91
€ 24.99
€ 22.91
paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212924
- ISBN
- 9780253212924
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.45
€ 16.99
€ 16.45
hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JM; ACV; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422472
- ISBN
- 9780821422472
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Condition: New
€ 86.54
€ 86.54
Hardback. A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 180 x 29. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118494066
- ISBN
- 9781118494066
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Condition: New
€ 210.47
€ 210.47
paperback. After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- SKU
- 9781447242000
- ISBN
- 9781447242000
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 5.80
€ 12.99
€ 5.80
paperback. Presents Baudrillard's key concepts and examines his contribution to the analysis of specific domains, such as postmodernism, feminism, technology, art, war, time and politics. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745316352
- ISBN
- 9780745316352
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.50
€ 40.99
€ 31.50
Paperback. A translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Series: Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268012953
- ISBN
- 9780268012953
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
paperback. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians. Editor(s): Machor, James L.; Goldstein, Philip. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415926508
- ISBN
- 9780415926508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania; The Open University/BBC; University of Pennsylvania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639939
- ISBN
- 9780748639939
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
hardcover. Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms. Editor(s): Bates, Milton J. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 16. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804715492
- ISBN
- 9780804715492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
hardcover. Here, the author aims to show how the poet Su Shi's complex personality was embodied in his work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 30. Weight in Grams: 629.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804715874
- ISBN
- 9780804715874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.90
€ 96.90
hardcover. Theatre and print began their tense relations and imperfect alliance in the late 17th century. This text focuses on the most active phase of the career of William Congreve, a crucial juncture in the history of print and publishing and a time when the book trade was becoming a lucrative business. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717519
- ISBN
- 9780804717519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.25
€ 86.25
hardcover. Rhetoric is an area of study without accepted certainties, not yet parcelled into subdivisions and adhering to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This text embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. Editor(s): Bender, John; Wellbery, David E. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718172
- ISBN
- 9780804718172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
hardcover. Reading a range of texts significant in their own time but little studied today, the author presents a view of late medieval French poetry in all its subtle variety: its quirkiness, its rhyming, its frequent moral seriousness, its occasional bawdiness, and the ambiguities of its authorial I. Num Pages: 372 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718288
- ISBN
- 9780804718288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.38
€ 91.38
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720748
- ISBN
- 9780804720748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
hardcover. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723763
- ISBN
- 9780804723763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89