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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Editor(s): Birkett, Mary Ellen. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603290197
ISBN
9781603290197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Paperback. Editor(s): McClintock Folsom, Marcia; Wiltshire, John. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603291989
ISBN
9781603291989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.38

Paperback. The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young man's choice between two beautiful women, of his journey toward enlightenment, and of the moral and financial decline of a powerful family. Editor(s): Schonebaum, Andrew; Lu, Tina. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Num Pages: 515 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America United States
Number of pages
515
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603291118
ISBN
9781603291118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Hardcover. Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139900
ISBN
9781571139900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.65

Hardcover.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125043
ISBN
9781905125043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.63

paperback. Traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822312710
ISBN
9780822312710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Hardback. Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481075
ISBN
9781611481075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.10

Paperback. Offers an investigation into what is known in Tibet as 'secret autobiography', a literary genre that presents an exploration of religious experiences. This book translates and studies the autobiographies by a Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730 - 1798). Num Pages: 384 pages, 12 halftones 1 map 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; DSBD; HREX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691009483
ISBN
9780691009483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 51.17

Paperback. Governor-General's award-winning poet E.D. Blodgett continues his series of meditations on love, living, and loss. This intelligent collection offers more of Blodgett's lush imagery and deep questioning within the apostrophe form. A lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 80 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 164 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643520
ISBN
9780888643520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of" Apostrophes: woman at a piano," which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, through you I is a lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 80 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 165 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
74
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643049
ISBN
9780888643049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.40

Hardcover. Apuleius (born ca. 125 AD), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. This edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, contains Apuleius' other surviving works that are considered genuine. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 16 x 10. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997110
ISBN
9780674997110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.02

Hardcover. Drawing on the preceding literary traditions of epic, lyric, and tragedy, this book creates a complex narrative that includes geography, religion, ethnography, mythology, adventure, exploration, human psychology, and the coming of age and love affair of Jason and Medea. Editor(s): Race, William H. Translator(s): Race, William H. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 118 x 30. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996304
ISBN
9780674996304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107636750
ISBN
9781107636750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.50

Paperback. Contains the English translations of Apollodorus' "Library" and Hyginus' "Fabulae" - the two important surviving 'handbooks' of classical mythography. This work discusses the issues of authorship, aim, and influence. It also includes an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M.; Smith, R. Scott. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
247
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208209
ISBN
9780872208209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.94

Hardcover. Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) had an enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. This book offers an exploration of the afterlife of this Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226512037
ISBN
9780226512037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.63
€ 49.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781896300634
ISBN
9781896300634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.08

Paperback. Tackles head on a fundamental question about Christian-inspired eschatology: Does it sanction, as theologically sacred or philosophically ultimate, the kind of 'last battles' between good and evil that provoke human beings to demonize and destroy The Other? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033804
ISBN
9780268033804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.33

Paperback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234806
ISBN
9780823234806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.09

Paperback. Examines the development of modernism into postmodernism as it occurs in the works of three major poets, and attends closely to the social and political dimensions of that development as embodied in these writers' distinctive poetics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817307325
ISBN
9780817307325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.84

Paperback. The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite's Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570785
ISBN
9780813570785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.00

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