Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DQ; DS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629966751
- ISBN
- 9789629966751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.20
€ 60.20
hardcover. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Num Pages: 432 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098146
- ISBN
- 9780802098146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. IBeautifully designed with 21 color and 15 halftone illustrations, this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 color illustrations, 12 tritone illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674018297
- ISBN
- 9780674018297
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.75
€ 36.99
€ 30.75
hardcover. This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically. Translator(s): Wiggins, Ellwood. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; PBT; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768641
- ISBN
- 9780804768641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.91
€ 191.91
Paperback. Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays that presents the best of recent critical theory on the history and future of the page and its enormous influence on Western thought and culture. Editor(s): Stoicheff, Peter; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 330 pages, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802085849
- ISBN
- 9780802085849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.86
€ 46.99
€ 41.86
Paperback. Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. Num Pages: 104 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635996
- ISBN
- 9780745635996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.04
€ 22.04
Paperback. This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship. Editor(s): Bammer, Angelika; Boetcher, Joeres Ruth-Ellen. Num Pages: 260 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520531
- ISBN
- 9781137520531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.37
€ 91.37
Hardcover. Draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226083872
- ISBN
- 9780226083872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.94
€ 95.07
€ 78.94
Paperback. * A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". * Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. * Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405124768
- ISBN
- 9781405124768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Hardcover. * A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". * Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. * Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405124751
- ISBN
- 9781405124751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.10
€ 121.10
paperback. This collection of essays and six interviews, from the Furious Flower Conference of 1994, provides a mosaic of the major critical and aesthetic issues emerging from African-American poetry and its literary milieu. They address the main points for assessing the work of black poets. Editor(s): Gabbin, Joanne V. (Professor of English, James Madison University, USA). Num Pages: 400 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918419
- ISBN
- 9780813918419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.93
€ 37.93
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099575757
- ISBN
- 9780099575757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.77
€ 19.00
€ 16.77
Hardback. The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessmentby attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetryof major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation. " Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804782951
- ISBN
- 9780804782951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Paperback. 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrel performance and early race films. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations, bibliog references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044347
- ISBN
- 9780226044347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.29
€ 43.99
€ 33.29
Hardback. Translator(s): Calichman, Richard. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163866
- ISBN
- 9780231163866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.68€ 56.89
€ 73.68
€ 56.89
hardcover. The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758772
- ISBN
- 9780804758772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.69
€ 81.69
Hardback. In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509513314
- ISBN
- 9781509513314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 2. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509513321
- ISBN
- 9781509513321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Paperback. The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226486833
- ISBN
- 9780226486833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.63
€ 37.99
€ 29.63
Hardback. Offers an account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as a whole, this book uses Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the "literary field." Translator(s): Doriott Anderson, Vanessa; Cohn, Dorrit. Num Pages: 672 pages, 5 tables, 4 graphs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1125.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351788
- ISBN
- 9780822351788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.81
€ 153.81
paperback. Calin develops a synthesis of medieval French and English literature that will be especially useful for classroom study. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 604 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 604
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802072023
- ISBN
- 9780802072023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.50
€ 51.99
€ 46.50
Hardback. Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England. Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; CFF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844594
- ISBN
- 9781843844594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.41
€ 115.41
Paperback. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408217283
- ISBN
- 9781408217283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582414693
- ISBN
- 9780582414693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34