Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BTC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 501.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333745472
- ISBN
- 9780333745472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.80
€ 149.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910170052
- ISBN
- 9781910170052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
€ 13.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as 'literature' is still ambiguous. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199658787
- ISBN
- 9780199658787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide ranging and a hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels short stories, films and television series, the author presents a concise history of crime fiction. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; YFB; YQE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415318242
- ISBN
- 9780415318242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Bussey, Carvel De. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 163 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFA; BGH; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 302 x 27. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497945
- ISBN
- 9780929497945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 326 pages, 20 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DN; APF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763507936
- ISBN
- 9788763507936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Hardcover. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338104
- ISBN
- 9780230338104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.39
€ 149.39
Paperback. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341108
- ISBN
- 9781349341108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Paperback. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Editor(s): Bauer, Ralph; Mazzotti, Jose Antonio. Num Pages: 520 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859681
- ISBN
- 9780807859681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921433
- ISBN
- 9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665266
- ISBN
- 9780816665266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443848
- ISBN
- 9780801443848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.82
€ 71.82
Paperback. To find out more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 99 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Number of pages
- 99
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556128059
- ISBN
- 9781556128059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.41
€ 26.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147873
- ISBN
- 9780231147873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Examining how ideas about species, sexuality, and gender link to 20th- and 21st-century literary texts, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complicated yet evocative relationship between animals and humans within a literary context. Contributors discuss writers like Franz Kafka, J. R. Ackerley, and Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520661
- ISBN
- 9781137520661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.00
€ 117.00
Hardback. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, the essays in this book focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood and popular religion. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023932
- ISBN
- 9780674023932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
hardcover. This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472578
- ISBN
- 9781611472578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.64
€ 123.64
Paperback. This book seeks quite simply to share the many experiences of Shakespeare's Globe Education team of their active approach to teaching students of all ages. The book mixes some theory with lots of examples and practical ideas teachers can take and use for their own lessons. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b/w in-text photos. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408156841
- ISBN
- 9781408156841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.92
€ 29.99
€ 25.92
Hardcover. The book focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21th centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. Series: Journal of Beckett Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748697328
- ISBN
- 9780748697328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Hardcover. In this sparkling collection edited by Robert Phillips, Shapiro's most trenchant writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters are once again available. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 33. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635561
- ISBN
- 9781566635561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.89
€ 39.89