Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Translator(s): Davis, Dick. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934211383
- ISBN
- 9780934211383
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.05
€ 23.99
€ 18.05
Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781380307
- ISBN
- 9781781380307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 6.23
€ 17.99
€ 6.23
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135568
- ISBN
- 9781571135568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.57
€ 97.57
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165945
- ISBN
- 9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.77
€ 58.77
Paperback. Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Peurto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. The story of an American community of colour, "Boricua Literature" is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780814731475
- ISBN
- 9780814731475
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349053
- ISBN
- 9780820349053
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Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451293
- ISBN
- 9781137451293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. This text, using examples ranging from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, examines the influence that the concept of "boredom" exerts on the literary imagination. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768540
- ISBN
- 9780226768540
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation. Num Pages: 456 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 617.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761055
- ISBN
- 9780804761055
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816639588
- ISBN
- 9780816639588
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSB; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206823
- ISBN
- 9780520206823
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.81
€ 35.99
€ 26.81
Digital (delivered electronically). Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. Editor(s): Burry, Alexander (Ohio State University); White, Frederick (Utah Valley University). BIC Classification: 1DVU; APFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425919
- ISBN
- 9781474425919
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Hardcover. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Fraser, Robert; Hammond, Mary. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210332
- ISBN
- 9780230210332
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print...
Fraser, Robert, Hammond, Mary
Hardcover. Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world. Num Pages: 225 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210295
- ISBN
- 9780230210295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033231
- ISBN
- 9780268033231
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Paperback. A tribute to the enduring power of the printed word. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782069423
- ISBN
- 9781782069423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Series: MIP Richard Rawlinson Center Series. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 2ADL; 2AF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580441827
- ISBN
- 9781580441827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.68
€ 35.68
Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation...
. Ed(S): Bellingradt, Daniel; Nelles, Paul; S...
hardcover. Editor(s): Bellingradt, Daniel; Nelles, Paul; Salman, Jeroen. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319533650
- ISBN
- 9783319533650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.42
€ 161.42
Paperback. Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; DQ; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064055
- ISBN
- 9780271064055
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 40.39
€ 50.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. This work includes essays that draw on an array of documentary evidence - such as library catalogs and prefaces - to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Editor(s): Andersen, Jennifer; Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217940
- ISBN
- 9780812217940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries. Editor(s): Ferris, Ina; Keen, Paul. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222311
- ISBN
- 9780230222311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206458
- ISBN
- 9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.42€ 49.59
€ 62.42
€ 49.59
Hardcover. A new perspective on the disjunction between book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century that shaped the contours of the modern literary sphere. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367594
- ISBN
- 9781137367594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books. The author shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books. From medieval manuscript books to today's interactive urban fictions, he explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226103488
- ISBN
- 9780226103488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.49
€ 19.99
€ 17.49