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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels - from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces - this work explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map, 2 line illus., 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSB; DSK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058290
ISBN
9780691058290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.43
€ 55.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, diagrams, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573093279
ISBN
9781573093279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.62

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFCD; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933412
ISBN
9780813933412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.25

Hardback. Presents a reconceptualization of the American project of conversion that begins with the story of Henry 'Opukaha'ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity. The author argues that 'Opukaha'ia's conversion is both remarkable and prototypically American, because he dared to redefine himself via this drive to rebirth. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033436
ISBN
9780674033436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.32
€ 48.63

hardcover. Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643130
ISBN
9781442643130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.34

Paperback. Num Pages: Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; BGH; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780811201896
ISBN
9780811201896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.58

Num Pages: 288 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801440267
ISBN
9780801440267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.15

Paperback. With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turns to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay The Painter of Modern Life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957561
ISBN
9780241957561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2ADF; 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
330
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493894
ISBN
9781611493894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.82

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 454 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691639277
ISBN
9780691639277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 234.38

Hardback. The author argues against much recent work on Baudelaire that assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations such as issues of race and gender or by "correcting" his politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728096
ISBN
9780804728096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.61

Hardcover. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180 220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280." Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
501
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848145
ISBN
9781603848145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.23
€ 73.13

Paperback. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180-220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280. Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
501
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848138
ISBN
9781603848138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.52

Hardback. This book covers many important events for those studying censorship conflicts. Num Pages: 395 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSB; HBT; JFMD; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810821514
ISBN
9780810821514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.60

Hardback. Compiling in one volume the basic writings of these three seminal thinkers of ancient China, each from a different philosophical school, this book reveals the richness and diversity of the ancient Chinese intellectual world. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 480 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
n
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231025157
ISBN
9780231025157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.81
€ 56.83

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Tsujimura, Shiro. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568365374
ISBN
9781568365374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.58

Paperback. This edition has been updated with a new Introduction which examines Bartholmew Fair as a reading text, as a text for performance and as a play that questions theatre itself. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 224 pages, Approx. 5 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713674279
ISBN
9780713674279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.22

Paperback. Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. This book surveys Barthes' work in prose. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 13 halftones and 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB; GTE; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 115 x 9. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192801593
ISBN
9780192801593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153437
ISBN
9781903153437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.78

Hardback. Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula's foremost modern city. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758321
ISBN
9780804758321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649655
ISBN
9780816649655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623564469
ISBN
9781623564469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.14

Paperback. Did you know the Battle of Bannockburn had its own poet-in-residence? Starting in 1314 and coming right up to the present day, the author examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. It also includes the most detailed consideration of what independence meant to Robert Burns. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748685844
ISBN
9780748685844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195809
ISBN
9781845195809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.14

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