Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Satire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre. Editor(s): Braund, Professor Susanna; Osgood, Josiah. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 628 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 628
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405199650
- ISBN
- 9781405199650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.66
€ 194.66
Paperback. The making of a great Chilean poet. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662803
- ISBN
- 9781855662803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.65
€ 33.99
€ 32.65
Hardback. More than 30 new essays from an international cast of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid's literary oeuvre. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 534 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 173 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1126.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 534
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141833
- ISBN
- 9781405141833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 272.68
€ 272.68
Hardcover. This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. Series: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO LITERA. Num Pages: 584 pages, NO. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118451625
- ISBN
- 9781118451625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 223.37
€ 223.37
Paperback. This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 608 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444332049
- ISBN
- 9781444332049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.46
€ 77.46
Hardcover. Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663008
- ISBN
- 9781855663008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842484
- ISBN
- 9781843842484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.84
€ 35.99
€ 34.84
Hardback. This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical terrain of Couto's literary thought. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant; Huddart, David. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 2ADP; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011459
- ISBN
- 9781847011459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.86
€ 79.86
Paperback. A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms. Editor(s): Radulescu, Raluca L.; Rushton, Cory James. Series: Studies in Medieval Romance. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Studies in Medieval Romance. 226 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Radulescu, Raluca L.; Rushton, Cory James. A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 13. Weight: 342.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842705
- ISBN
- 9781843842705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.75
€ 26.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. * * One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years. * * Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature. Editor(s): Messent, Peter; Budd, Louis J. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 29. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119045397
- ISBN
- 9781119045397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.03€ 50.93
€ 60.03
€ 50.93
Paperback. A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Editor(s): Hart, Stephen M.; Ouyang, Wen-chin. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. 304 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hart, Stephen M.; Ouyang, Wen-chin. A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight: 470.
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662131
- ISBN
- 9781855662131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.76
€ 35.99
€ 34.76
Hardcover. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Editor(s): Pastor, Brigida M.; Davies, Lloyd Hughes. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. 260 pages. Editor(s): Pastor, Brigida M.; Davies, Lloyd Hughes. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662360
- ISBN
- 9781855662360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.57
€ 97.57
Paperback. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Castro-Klaren, Sara. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 712 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1064.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 712
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118492147
- ISBN
- 9781118492147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.18
€ 52.18
Hardcover. Offers an introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century onwards. This work shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855661479
- ISBN
- 9781855661479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.68
€ 114.68
Hardcover. A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663077
- ISBN
- 9781855663077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662667
- ISBN
- 9781855662667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.75
€ 26.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. James Joyce, an iconic figure within Irish, British, European and American cultures, is growing in importance in more widely global cultural contexts as well. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, above all, Ulysses hold an unassailable place within the canon of twentieth-century modernist literature. Editor(s): Brown, Richard. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 37. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470657966
- ISBN
- 9780470657966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.01
€ 71.01
Paperback. * * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville. Editor(s): Kelley, Wyn. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 958.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119045274
- ISBN
- 9781119045274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.03€ 50.67
€ 60.03
€ 50.67
paperback. Written by some of the best-known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides the most up-to-date scholarship on his writings available today. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies. Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- V9781118492345
- ISBN
- 9781118492345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.09€ 53.18
€ 58.09
€ 53.18
Hardcover. The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 576 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 179 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1192.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405107709
- ISBN
- 9781405107709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.18€ 124.58
€ 203.18
€ 124.58