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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB; DSC; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632704
ISBN
9780691632704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.48

Paperback. The contributors to this collection of essays are all unified by their concern with the instructive power of great literature. The essays explore the polyvalent moral and political impact of classic world literatures on public ethics through the study of some of its major figures. Editor(s): Edmondson, Henry T., III. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739101490
ISBN
9780739101490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Paperback. Features Gothic narratives, stories of the macabre and supernatural tales which demonstrate the author's instinct for weaving terror and suspense into scenes of ordinary everyday life. Editor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FF; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897334419
ISBN
9780897334419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.35

Hardback. A quasi-biographical, historical, and critical study of Andrew Marvell, this book deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of worthy men. Marvell's perception of his role as poet emerges through his reformation of conventional figures and structures. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874135619
ISBN
9780874135619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649969
ISBN
9780816649969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

paperback. A reconstruction of three modernist poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters, this sequel to "Orientalism and Modernism", investigates the ways in which three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; ACBP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921761
ISBN
9780813921761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.70

Paperback. Includes chapters through which the scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. This book addresses gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy. Editor(s): McLoughlin, Kate. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401418
ISBN
9781474401418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.53

Paperback. Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts. Editor(s): Copeland, Rebecca; Ortabasi, Melek. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137751
ISBN
9780231137751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919805
ISBN
9780813919805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.72

Paperback. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected. Num Pages: 238 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847080110
ISBN
9781847080110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001559
ISBN
9780393309461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Features the plays "Misanthrope", "Such Preposterously Precious Ladies", "Tartuffe", "A Doctor Despite Himself", "The Would-Be Gentleman", and "Those Learned Ladies". Translator(s): Wood, John C.; Coward, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447309
ISBN
9780140447309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.84

Paperback. To what extent has feminism benefited women? Arguing that so far feminism has failed to deliver the promised benefits for many women and has even proved harmful, this text brings together women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, to provide a radical rethink for the 21st century. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 389. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
274
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KRS0018138
ISBN
9780826450951
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Hardback. Editor(s): New, Melvyn; Gerard, W. B. Series: Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 957.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
9 Rev ed
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813049472
ISBN
9780813049472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.68

Paperback. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114705
ISBN
9780691114705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.08
€ 46.42

Hardback. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear. Num Pages: 385 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138733
ISBN
9780874138733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.75

Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195014716
ISBN
9780195014716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231069595
ISBN
9780231069595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Explores the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature - issues central to the study of medieval art. This book examines the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and more. Editor(s): Hamburger, Jeffrey F.; Bouche, Anne-Marie. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 464 pages, 198 halftones. BIC Classification: ACK; AGR; DSBB; HRCX6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 215 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1292.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124766
ISBN
9780691124766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.08
€ 46.20

Hardback. In the latter half of the 20th century, poet William Bronk (1918-1999) was a significant voice in the American literary landscape. This book attempts to present a perspective of 20th century literary history and interrogates the ideational, poetic, and cultural shifts as seen through the lens of Bronk's life as a writer. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139143
ISBN
9780874139143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.05

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