Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received little critical attention. Her fiction forms an approachable learning tool for all students of post-war French politics and culture. Num Pages: 277 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895866
- ISBN
- 9780859895866
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Condition: New
€ 48.09
€ 48.09
Paperback. The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. Editor(s): Hale, Amy; Payton, Philip. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2AF; DSB; HBTB; HRKP2; JFHF; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895873
- ISBN
- 9780859895873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.72
€ 39.72
Paperback. This is a volume in the series Textes litteraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries. Editor(s): Gibson, Wendy. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 92 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ADF; DD; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896665
- ISBN
- 9780859896665
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Condition: New
€ 39.49
€ 39.49
Paperback. The Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work's translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version. Editor(s): Bizzarri, Hugo O. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 46 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 46
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896757
- ISBN
- 9780859896757
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Condition: New
€ 38.32
€ 38.32
Paperback. Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier's circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac was notorious in his own time but has only recently become a subject of serious study. This book contains seventeen poetic "satyres" together with various other poems. Editor(s): Clin-Lelande, A. M. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 180.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896917
- ISBN
- 9780859896917
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Condition: New
€ 38.52
€ 38.52
Hardback. From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. Editor(s): Orr, Mary; Sharpe, Lesley. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897211
- ISBN
- 9780859897211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.12
€ 134.12
Paperback. From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. Editor(s): Orr, Mary; Sharpe, Lesley. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897228
- ISBN
- 9780859897228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.03
€ 41.03
Paperback. In this new edition, John Flower provides a full contextualising introduction of Jean Paulhan's Lettre aux directeurs de la Resistance. The volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of this turbulent period and provides a documentary history of the post-war political and literary debates in Paris. Series: Exeter Textes Litteraires. Num Pages: 192 pages, halftones, line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897242
- ISBN
- 9780859897242
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Condition: New
€ 39.18
€ 39.18
Hardback. This is the first full-length study of John McGrath's work, and illuminates the importance of his role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Bradby, David; Capon, Susanna. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, b&w halftones. BIC Classification: AN; APF; APT; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897488
- ISBN
- 9780859897488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.96
€ 133.96
Paperback. This is the first full-length study of John McGrath's work, and illuminates the importance of his role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Bradby, David; Capon, Susanna. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, b&w halftones. BIC Classification: AN; APF; APT; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897495
- ISBN
- 9780859897495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.54
€ 35.54
Paperback. This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898454
- ISBN
- 9780859898454
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Condition: New
€ 40.05
€ 40.05
Hardback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898478
- ISBN
- 9780859898478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.12
€ 134.12
Hardback. The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. Editor(s): Shail, Andrew. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; DSK; FYB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898539
- ISBN
- 9780859898539
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Condition: New
€ 134.49
€ 134.49
Paperback. The creation of perfect imaginary worlds serves as a means of acting on the imperfect present. This is a feature of French utopian writing, whose rich tradition inspires authors. This book demonstrates that the utopian - and dystopian - imaginings which constitute that tradition find expression through various genres and modes of creation. Editor(s): West-Sooby, John. Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874130485
- ISBN
- 9780874130485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.62
€ 64.62
Paperback. One of the texts to emerge from the Althusserian tradition, this book analyzes the ideological unconscious that always exists, without becoming explicit, in any discursive field. Editor(s): Read, Malcolm K. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: AN; CFG; DSB; GTE; JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874130560
- ISBN
- 9780874130560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.29
€ 71.29
Hardback. English translation of: Disarmonie vittoriane, with revisions. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874130904
- ISBN
- 9780874130904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.42
€ 48.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 0. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874131475
- ISBN
- 9780874131475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.88
€ 135.88
Hardback. Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874132717
- ISBN
- 9780874132717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Hardback. Argues that the discipline of comparative literature should be expanded to include all of the world, not only a favored segment, and that translation represents a legitimate and indispensable tool for readers. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874132779
- ISBN
- 9780874132779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.19
€ 115.19
New Alliances In Joyce Studies: When Its Aped to Foul a Dephian
Scott, Bonnie K.. Ed(S): Scott, Bonnie K.
hardcover. "Essays .. initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers .. at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985"--Introd. Editor(s): Scott, Bonnie K. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133288
- ISBN
- 9780874133288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.51
€ 124.51
Hardback. Eighteen new essays by respected critics on Shakespeare and his dramatic antecedents, contemporaries, and successors, offering an up-to-date survey-history of Renaissance theater and examples of scholarly and critical methodology. Editor(s): Elton, W. R.; Long, William B. Num Pages: 307 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133332
- ISBN
- 9780874133332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.36
€ 133.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133363
- ISBN
- 9780874133363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.84
€ 109.84
Hardback. A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. Num Pages: 229 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133691
- ISBN
- 9780874133691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Hardback. The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi's life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmation of hope and ambition as well as decelarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Num Pages: 576 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 983.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133950
- ISBN
- 9780874133950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.83
€ 176.83