Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 34. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 15th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869594
- ISBN
- 9780801869594
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.30
€ 42.99
€ 35.30
Hardback. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 15th anniversary ed
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869952
- ISBN
- 9780801869952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.27
€ 90.27
Paperback. Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120256
- ISBN
- 9780691120256
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Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.46
€ 53.29
€ 42.46
Paperback. This volume asserts that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American literary voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. The book provides evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920672
- ISBN
- 9780813920672
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Condition: New
€ 40.49
€ 40.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 1. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Gateways Books & Tapes,US United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780895560681
- ISBN
- 9780895560681
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.11
€ 18.99
€ 17.11
Paperback. This translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 342 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HPD; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104319
- ISBN
- 9780231104319
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.89
€ 42.99
€ 30.89
Paperback. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm. Translator(s): Mason, Wyatt. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180701
- ISBN
- 9780300180701
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.68
€ 15.99
€ 12.68
Paperback. Offers a source of literary modernism in the twentieth century. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Verso
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844673483
- ISBN
- 9781844673483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. A study of modernist aesthetics, which attempts to reveal how the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation for such writers as Flaubert, Proust and Baudelaire. The author demonstrates how the modernist movement was influenced by Oriental culture and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556. .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822310945
- ISBN
- 9780822310945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Translator(s): Grene, David; O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226007724
- ISBN
- 9780226007724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.94
€ 27.99
€ 22.94
Hardback. A collection of lectures from leading writers and critics, including Nadine Gordimer ("Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics"), Cynthia Ozick ("What Henry James Knew"), George Steiner ("The Uncommon Reader") and Seamus Heaney ("Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas"). Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215157
- ISBN
- 9780823215157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473971
- ISBN
- 9781611473971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.27
€ 129.27
Hardback. Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; JPA; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073081
- ISBN
- 9780674073081
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.27
€ 47.99
€ 40.27
Paperback. Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art. Translator(s): Cancogni, Anna. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674639768
- ISBN
- 9780674639768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.05
€ 47.99
€ 40.05
hardcover. A study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Margaret Jensen re-imagines the links between text and context as palimpsest historicizes literary influence, by taking Bloomian "anxiety" and Kristevan "intertextuality" into fields of actual history and biography. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293536
- ISBN
- 9780312293536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
hardcover. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 432 pages, 175. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 175 x 35. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801442933
- ISBN
- 9780801442933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.33
€ 186.33
Paperback. The One Thomas More carefully studies the central humanist and polemical texts written by More to illustrate a coherent development of thought Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813221861
- ISBN
- 9780813221861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.36
€ 36.36
Hardcover. In the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard's own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed. Num Pages: 310 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504844
- ISBN
- 9780674504844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.23€ 49.55
€ 53.23
€ 49.55
Part detective story, part fable, this novel takes the reader to a mythical post-industrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 183 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080200
- ISBN
- 9780231080200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.39
€ 47.39
Hardback. Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems attest to a powerfully inventive imagination, deeply learned in Christian doctrine and traditional verse-craft. He reveals an expert control of structure and a flair for extended similes and dramatic dialogue. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072633
- ISBN
- 9780674072633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.83
€ 40.99
€ 33.83