Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's "Black Boy" to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, this work examines the second half of the 20th century to assess the challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. Series: Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322407
- ISBN
- 9780820322407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.05
€ 53.05
Paperback. Louisa May Alcott "rewrote" not only herself but also her parents and sisters in "Little Women". Yet do we understand her impulse? This study focuses on her motivations in fashioning an idealized family in her novel, suggesting ways to view both the fictional Marches and the real-world Alcotts. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322803
- ISBN
- 9780820322803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.01
€ 32.01
Hardcover. Past studies have discussed antebellum and early national sentimental literature by and about women as a retreat from, or criticism of, the burgeoning market. This work examines how this literature actually helped to bring market behaviours into maturity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; 3JH; DSBB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820324340
- ISBN
- 9780820324340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.84
€ 60.84
Hardcover. Examines the careers, talents, and styles of three women who were acknowledged, each in her time, as the greatest interpreter of Shakespeare's heroines: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench. Series: Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: ANB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325064
- ISBN
- 9780820325064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.54
€ 39.54
Paperback. African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of mulnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325620
- ISBN
- 9780820325620
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Condition: New
€ 46.09
€ 46.09
Paperback. Collects essays that explore some of the directions in the study of literature and the environment. This work looks to underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. Editor(s): Ingram, Annie Merrill; Marshall, Ian; Philippon, Daniel J.; Sweeting, Adam W. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328867
- ISBN
- 9780820328867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Hardcover. Explores Toni Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the "axes" on which these relationships turn. This book considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a racist culture of competition, and fixed ideals about physical beauty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329451
- ISBN
- 9780820329451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.99
€ 60.99
Paperback. A biography of Ellison that focuses on the author's early life. Containing photographs, it draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison's relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the writer's path from poverty in dust bowl Oklahoma to his rise among the literary elite. Num Pages: 544 pages, 21 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329932
- ISBN
- 9780820329932
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Condition: New
€ 48.52
€ 48.52
Hardcover. Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330051
- ISBN
- 9780820330051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.52
€ 60.52
Paperback. For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330594
- ISBN
- 9780820330594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.19
€ 36.19
Paperback. Reveals affinities between antebellum southern and modern American capitalist psychology. This book identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820331126
- ISBN
- 9780820331126
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Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Paperback. Drawing on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including aesthetics, anthropology, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, "Shades of Green" demonstrates the agility with which human thought about the natural and the racial leapt across formal epistemological, professional, and artistic boundaries. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820337807
- ISBN
- 9780820337807
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Condition: New
€ 44.82
€ 44.82
Hardcover. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820343167
- ISBN
- 9780820343167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345000
- ISBN
- 9780820345000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.63
€ 61.63
Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345994
- ISBN
- 9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.53
€ 44.53
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lawler, Traugott; Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Chaucer Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 40. Weight in Grams: 970.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346106
- ISBN
- 9780820346106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.14
€ 157.14
Hardcover. The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. Editor(s): Geltner, Ted. Num Pages: 456 pages, 39 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349237
- ISBN
- 9780820349237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.54
€ 38.99
€ 35.54
Paperback. An analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. Editor(s): Whited, Lana A. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826215499
- ISBN
- 9780826215499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.60
€ 46.60
Hardcover. In the first two essays in this volume - "The Age of Dobie" and "The Age of McMurtry" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652887
- ISBN
- 9780875652887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.02
€ 26.99
€ 25.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Alter, Judy; Lee, James Ward. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875654263
- ISBN
- 9780875654263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.10
€ 20.99
€ 19.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892810024
- ISBN
- 9780892810024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.65
€ 24.99
€ 23.65
Hardcover. Editor(s): Holland, Peter; Orgel, Stephen. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403992284
- ISBN
- 9781403992284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.21
€ 149.21
Paperback. Gives a richly referenced and closely argued reading of J. K. Rowling s Harry Potter books, drawing out connections within the writing to illuminate Christian spiritual values in them. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hidden Spring
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587680588
- ISBN
- 9781587680588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.97
€ 17.99
€ 16.97
This entirely new Complete Works, edited afresh from the original documents, provides scholars with all the materials they need for text-based research. The edition preserves the spelling, punctuation, ambiguities, and inconsistencies of the early documents, and introductions and on-page notes address the book history and documentary origins. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John; Bourus, Terri; Egan, Gabriel. Series: New Oxford Shakespeare. Num Pages: 3968 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Critical Reference Edition
- Number of pages
- 3968
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199591879
- ISBN
- 9780199591879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 451.11
€ 451.11