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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A student edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play with its uncompromising depiction of rape, torture and violence in a society at war with itself. The Introduction includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters and language. Editor(s): Urban, Ken. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 189 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408103852
ISBN
9781408103852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Schaberg, Christopher (Loyola University New Orleans USA); Bogost, Professor Ian (Loyola University New Orleans USA). Series: Object Lessons. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628922653
ISBN
9781628922653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.38

Paperback. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visionary. This work includes the texts of the early prose tracts, "All Religions are One" and "There is No Natural Religion". It contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 960 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1186.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405832809
ISBN
9781405832809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.32

Hardback. Despite his reputation as a staunch individualist and repeated attacks on institutions that constrain the individual's imagination, Julia Wright argues that William Blake rarely represents isolation positively and explores his concern with the kind of national community being established. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821415191
ISBN
9780821415191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892540518
ISBN
9780892540518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

The resulting picture of the emotional agency of criticism opens up a new angle on Blake's literary and visual legacy and offers a vivid interrogation of the practical potential of theoretical discourse. Num Pages: 416 pages, 37, 37 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 710.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408064
ISBN
9781421408064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.67

Paperback. Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s. Series Editor(s): Gelpi, Albert (Stanford University, California); Posnock, Ross. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004244
ISBN
9780521635752
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bayreuth African Studies
Condition
New
SKU
V9783927510456
ISBN
9783927510456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647701
ISBN
9781442647701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.42

Hardback. Including 410 entries-drawn from over 100 years of novels, short stories, plays, and children's and young adult literature-this bibliography demonstrates both the extent and the richness of the fiction which has been written about Black-Jewish relations in America, thus enhancing our view of American ethnic literature as a whole. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; GBCR; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842182
ISBN
9780810842182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.15

Paperback. Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity. Num Pages: 246 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813533674
ISBN
9780813533674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. Argues for a redefinition of the genre of black American autobiography to include the images of women as well as their memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, and journals - as a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877228035
ISBN
9780877228035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573094160
ISBN
9781573094160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 22 black & white illustrations, 22 colour plates, 44 illus., 22 in color. BIC Classification: DSK; FX; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295994963
ISBN
9780295994963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323402
ISBN
9780822323402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489044
ISBN
9780801489044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.42

Paperback. Black Roads traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carlton's The Black Prophet (from which the title is taken) to more contemporary work by authors Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 231 x 5. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780990468646
ISBN
9780990468646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.02

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813562490
ISBN
9780813562490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 107 x 27. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1920
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553275636
ISBN
9780553275636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.26

Paperback. Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. This work explores African writing and identity in France from the early negritude movement and the founding of the Presence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069352
ISBN
9780252069352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Thompson, Gordon E. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138270565
ISBN
9781138270565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Paperback. Recovering politically potent poems aiming from "the long lost father of modern Black poetry" Editor(s): Tidwell, John Edgar. Series: American Poetry Recovery Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252074684
ISBN
9780252074684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.19

Paperback. Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year. This is an epic poem to women everywhere. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2FMC; BM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241966259
ISBN
9780241966259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071959
ISBN
9780252071959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.07

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