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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The phenomenon of 'literary Chinatown' - the ghettoization of Chinese American literature - was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. This book examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987064
ISBN
9780295987064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

paperback. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, this volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Editor(s): Judge, Joan; Hu, Ying. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. Num Pages: 446 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520289734
ISBN
9780520289734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.72

Paperback. Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. This title evaluates archival sources and private correspondence between Opolsky and other literary figures, and includes a classified bibliography of Opolsky's work. It is suitable for students of Slavic and European literary history. Num Pages: 300 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGZ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 172. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024625713
ISBN
9788024625713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.13

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801484414
ISBN
9780801484414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.04

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168427
ISBN
9780231168427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.20
€ 46.06

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168434
ISBN
9780231168434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.41

Hardcover. Editor(s): Palmgren, Jennifer A.; Holloway, Lorretta M. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967350
ISBN
9781403967350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.87

Paperback. This essay collection addresses how the Victorians looked to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority, often false, for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. Editor(s): Holloway, L. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530069
ISBN
9781349530069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.87

Paperback. This collection of essays is devoted to the most important changes - in theme, language, structure, style, and production - that characterize the transformation of Athenian Comedy from the mid-fifth through the fourth century. Editor(s): Dobrov, Gregory W. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780788501401
ISBN
9780788501401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.03

Paperback. Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. Now available in paperback, this collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy. An updated introduction looks at the implications of the Brand/Ross controversy. Editor(s): Lockyer, Sharon; Pickering, Michael. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594500
ISBN
9780230594500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.41

Hardback. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980.. Editor(s): Bullivant, Keith. Series: Modern German Studies: A Series of the German Studies Association. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 258 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810373
ISBN
9781571810373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.52

Paperback. In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page. Series: New Exeter Medieval Texts. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; 2AB; DD; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 133. .
Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Critical, Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859892940
ISBN
9780859892940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.58

Hardcover. Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512246
ISBN
9781137512246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837624885
ISBN
9783837624885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.96
€ 41.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; YQEF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551116051
ISBN
9781551116051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.17

Paperback. An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719097614
ISBN
9780719097614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.91

Paperback. Between Two Shores / Idir Dha Chladach Series: Reimagining Ireland. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Galway. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
SKU
KOG0005815
ISBN
9783034301442
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 32.00

Hardcover. Between Two Fires examines the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War, revealing patterns of influence previously uncharted. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198744436
ISBN
9780198744436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.17

Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935898
ISBN
9780813935898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.26

Hardback. Here are the best of letters written to and from the editors of Poetry magazine (which T. S. Eliot called "an American institution") from 1962 through 2002, affording the reader a first-person account of the second revolution in American poetry. Virtually all of the more than five hundred letters have never been printed before. Editor(s): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566636568
ISBN
9781566636568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.65

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