Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Little attention has been paid to the ties between producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in the Heian. This book addresses such issues by investigating how different members of the court deployed poems in the pursuit of power. Num Pages: 433 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947099
- ISBN
- 9781933947099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Paperback. Little attention has been paid to the ties between producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in the Heian. This book addresses such issues by investigating how different members of the court deployed poems in the pursuit of power. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 433 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947396
- ISBN
- 9781933947396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534831
- ISBN
- 9780226534831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 718 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 168 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1189.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 718
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472769
- ISBN
- 9781611472769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.37
€ 183.37
Paperback. Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930879
- ISBN
- 9780813930879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.77
€ 56.77
Paperback. Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC93. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300172416
- ISBN
- 9780300172416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.00
€ 33.99
€ 25.00
Hardback. This book focuses on the meaning and function of George Herbert's poetic form from a psychohistorical perspective, demonstrating what close attention to prosody can contribute to critical discussions about the devices of self-representation, the dynamics of the self-other relation, and the depths of self-transformation in The Temple. Num Pages: 270 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874136791
- ISBN
- 9780874136791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.73
€ 145.73
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739145111
- ISBN
- 9780739145111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.94
€ 144.94
Paperback. Pairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226591520
- ISBN
- 9780226591520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.85
€ 36.99
€ 29.85
hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804714846
- ISBN
- 9780804714846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.83
€ 98.83
Hardcover. In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618848
- ISBN
- 9780230618848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- BenBella Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932100884
- ISBN
- 9781932100884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.53
€ 19.99
€ 18.53
Paperback. This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and psychoanalytic theory, as well as a wide range of texts and theories. Editor(s): Lane, Christopher. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109475
- ISBN
- 9780231109475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.19
€ 42.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. Num Pages: 228 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728119
- ISBN
- 9780804728119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
The Psalms and Medieval English Literature. From the Conversion to the...
Atkin, Tamara; Leneghan, Francis
hardcover. An exploration into the influence of the Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844358
- ISBN
- 9781843844358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 251 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822315728
- ISBN
- 9780822315728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.40
€ 38.99
€ 35.40
Hardback. This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734639
- ISBN
- 9780804734639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of early modern prose were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, the author argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226215273
- ISBN
- 9780226215273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.71
€ 34.99
€ 27.71
Hardcover. Analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. This title examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 171 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226871585
- ISBN
- 9780226871585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 79.61
€ 94.22
€ 79.61
Paperback. Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and more, this book explores the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 261 x 2. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099556077
- ISBN
- 9780099556077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226675282
- ISBN
- 9780226675282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. aeo Brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of a the enda . aeo Provides an exegesis of novels, plays, and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Shakespeare. Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HRCM; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220855
- ISBN
- 9780631220855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.53
€ 65.53
Brings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. This book also considers scientific views on the nature of time. It provides an exegesis of novels, plays and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T S Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HRCM; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220848
- ISBN
- 9780631220848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 187.90
€ 187.90
Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346661
- ISBN
- 9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56