Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748638468
- ISBN
- 9780748638468
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€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
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Hardback. The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre over the last hundred years. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641086
- ISBN
- 9780748641086
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€ 95.07€ 91.90
€ 95.07
€ 91.90
Paperback. This collection is the first to set Stevenson in his social, political and literary contexts from Scotland to the South Seas. Written an by international team of scholars, these essays cover the essential aspects of Stevenson's changing career as a professional writer. Editor(s): Fielding, Penny. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635559
- ISBN
- 9780748635559
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. In this comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns detailed commentary on the artistry and critical contexts of his work is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. Editor(s): Carruthers, Gerard. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748636495
- ISBN
- 9780748636495
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.86
€ 33.99
€ 28.86
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bernier, Celeste-Marie (University of Nottingham, UK); Newman, Professor of American Studies Judie (University of Newcastle upon Tyne The University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK The University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK); Pethers, Matthew. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature Eup. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GBC; GPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692927
- ISBN
- 9780748692927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 237.67€ 224.84
€ 237.67
€ 224.84
Paperback. This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. Editor(s): Gardiner, Michael; Maley, Willy. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748637690
- ISBN
- 9780748637690
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
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€ 30.61
Hardcover. Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Brauner, David; Staehler, Axel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 252 x 34. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646159
- ISBN
- 9780748646159
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Condition: New
€ 207.96€ 196.08
€ 207.96
€ 196.08
Hardback. Lively and specially commissioned chapters cover the entire range of Kelman's writing - including novels, short stories, essays, polemics and plays - and the vigorous debates it has provoked. Editor(s): Hames, Scott. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639632
- ISBN
- 9780748639632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.01€ 96.54
€ 101.01
€ 96.54
Paperback. A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote. Editor(s): Duncan, Ian; Mack, Douglas S. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 216 pages. Editor(s): Duncan, Ian; Mack, Douglas S. A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight: 312.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641239
- ISBN
- 9780748641239
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€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Hardback. The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639175
- ISBN
- 9780748639175
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Condition: New
€ 101.01€ 96.54
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Paperback. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics. Editor(s): Lyall, Scott; Palmer McCulloch, Dr. Margery. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641895
- ISBN
- 9780748641895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Hardback. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics. Editor(s): Lyall, Scott; Palmer McCulloch, Dr. Margery. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641901
- ISBN
- 9780748641901
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Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 91.90
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Hardcover. The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Taking note of new theoretical and socio-political developments, this volume demonstrates critical theory's continuing relevance across disciplines ranging from the arts through to the hard sciences. Editor(s): Sim, Professor Stuart. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748693399
- ISBN
- 9780748693399
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Condition: New
€ 207.96€ 196.15
€ 207.96
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Paperback. This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. Editor(s): Nicholson, Colin; McGuire, Matt. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748636266
- ISBN
- 9780748636266
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
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€ 33.91
Paperback. This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1, b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623969
- ISBN
- 9780748623969
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.54
€ 41.99
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Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402941
- ISBN
- 9781474402941
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Condition: New
€ 208.01€ 196.15
€ 208.01
€ 196.15
Hardback. Editor(s): Turner, Lynn (Emerson College); Sellbach, Undine; Broglio, Ron. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418416
- ISBN
- 9781474418416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 208.01€ 197.27
€ 208.01
€ 197.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998992
- ISBN
- 9780295998992
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Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Paperback. Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563433
- ISBN
- 9780099563433
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.70
€ 23.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commmercialized social relations. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226498201
- ISBN
- 9780226498201
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644097
- ISBN
- 9780691644097
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Condition: New
€ 106.20
€ 106.20
Hardcover. Num Pages: 395 pages, 1facsim,1port. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. .
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 395
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0228306
- ISBN
- 9780821409602
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Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. Num Pages: 288 pages, None. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748633630
- ISBN
- 9780748633630
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
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Paperback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631202493
- ISBN
- 9780631202493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.09
€ 57.09