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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604734201
ISBN
9781604734201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.02

paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248. Very good copy showing minor shelf wear and age. Text is clean throughout
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Random House Inc New York
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025101
ISBN
9780805211412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Hardcover. Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations. Editor(s): Raymond, Joad. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; DSB; HBTM; HRCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230552036
ISBN
9780230552036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.78

Hardback. Translator(s): Edkins, Anthony. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 140. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424235
ISBN
9780857424235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.30

Hardback. Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw. Editor(s): McCue, Kirsteen. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1406.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639359
ISBN
9780748639359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.88
€ 153.27

Hardback. This edition for the first time collects Hogg's 'Maga' publications, as well as provides a comprehensive introduction to Hogg's connection with Blackwood's and full explanatory and textual notes to the works. The volume also includes works Hogg intended for Blackwood's and which have now been edited from extant manuscripts. Editor(s): Richardson, Thomas C. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624898
ISBN
9780748624898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.55
€ 124.07

Hardback. Like other well-known writers of the time, Hogg was a contributor to the annuals, and this book brings together all the Hogg texts that were either written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books. Editor(s): Currie, Janette; Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; HBT; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 870.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615278
ISBN
9780748615278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.77
€ 108.80

Hardback. This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730099
ISBN
9780804730099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.88

paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573092807
ISBN
9781573092807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.19

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801426049
ISBN
9780801426049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.62

Paperback. North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. This book studies the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226005522
ISBN
9780226005522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse. Editor(s): Frakes, Jerold C. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111431
ISBN
9780230111431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFD; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403997661
ISBN
9781403997661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Hardback. This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108318
ISBN
9780230108318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349291090
ISBN
9781349291090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, this title offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre. Series Editor(s): Bluebond-Langner, Myra. Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813546643
ISBN
9780813546643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - have been proposed as their true author. This book unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571235773
ISBN
9780571235773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.47

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781856495578
ISBN
9781856495578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardback. Explores how authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252060489
ISBN
9780252060489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761823445
ISBN
9780761823445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.93

Paperback. These three tales, unpublished for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in the New World, either among native Americans (Abenakis, Iroquois) or runaway slaves in Jamaica befriended by Quakers. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 88 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895446
ISBN
9780859895446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.93

Hardcover. This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or peat 'bogs') are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture from the 1880s to the present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782052043
ISBN
9781782052043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. An opportunity for readers to engage with works and issues in late 20th-century women's poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and strategies, while the critics contextualize, analyze and situate the work. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333734377
ISBN
9780333734377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.33

Hardcover. This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230292789
ISBN
9780230292789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

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