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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Robyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary Pickford to Marilyn Monroe. Series: Kuhl House Poets. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Edition
2002nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877458203
ISBN
9780877458203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.45

Paperback. A work on the Whitman disciples - the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. It presents a colorful portrait of an era of intense religious, political, and sexual passions, focusing on why Whitman's work continues to appeal to so many. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146317
ISBN
9780691146317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Annotated Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441151292
ISBN
9781441151292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.88

Hardback. From Conrad to Rushdie, from Du Bois, to Nggi, Worlds Within explores the changing form of novels, nations, and national identities, by attending to the ways in which political circumstances meet narratives of the psyche. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754903
ISBN
9780804754903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

Hardback. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781847922458
ISBN
9781847922458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474411349
ISBN
9781474411349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.26

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
2Rev Ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801446788
ISBN
9780801446788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, 75 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 302 x 8. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Park Lane Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906969776
ISBN
9781906969776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.12

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841653723
ISBN
9781841653723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, 75 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 303 x 9. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Park Lane Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906969783
ISBN
9781906969783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.90

Hardcover. World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. Editor(s): Damrosch, David. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 177 x 29. Weight in Grams: 992.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781118407684
ISBN
9781118407684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.48

Paperback. World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. Editor(s): Damrosch, David. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 25. Weight in Grams: 810.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118407691
ISBN
9781118407691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 48.12

Paperback. 244 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 18. Weight: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Five Leaves
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905512331
ISBN
9781905512331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Hardback. "This articulate, engaging, and well-documented study represents an important work of scholarship in its cross-cultural considerations of Italian Renaissance epic poetry." Prize Committtee Citation, MLA Scaglione Priize for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 232 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646834
ISBN
9781442646834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.02

Paperback. This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naive tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688986
ISBN
9781611688986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 39.24

Paperback. Editor(s): Kumar, Amitava (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Penn State University, USA). Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816638376
ISBN
9780816638376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 30. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411395
ISBN
9781572411395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.87

hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226329659
ISBN
9780226329659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 79.17

Paperback. Sheds light on the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. This volume includes Hesiod's "Works and Days" and "Theogony", two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive. It provides a glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE. Editor(s): Hine, Daryl. Translator(s): Hine, Daryl. Num Pages: 230 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226329666
ISBN
9780226329666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.61

Paperback. Using the concepts and practices of feminist literary criticism, this constantly challenging workbook not only makes the connection between womena s writing and womena s lives but breaks new ground in enabling students to apply critical concepts and to feel more at ease with the texts common to feminist literary theory. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631194422
ISBN
9780631194422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.53

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