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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. Num Pages: 142 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035253
- ISBN
- 9780226035253
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
hardcover. Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 675.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099570
- ISBN
- 9780802099570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.40
€ 76.40
Paperback. Figures such as E M Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. This study reveals the personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers and architects. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133050
- ISBN
- 9780231133050
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Hardback. Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 208 x 24. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231627
- ISBN
- 9780230231627
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Condition: New
€ 94.51€ 34.79
€ 94.51
€ 34.79
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107083882
- ISBN
- 9781107083882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.33€ 67.23
€ 106.33
€ 67.23
Paperback. This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history. Num Pages: 440 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: AV; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226012674
- ISBN
- 9780226012674
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.29
€ 48.99
€ 38.29
Hardcover. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. Fine in fine dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- AIAA
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- SKU
- KTJ0049487
- ISBN
- 9780333918845
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses remakes the relationship between world and representation. Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications in the work of writers who were self-consciously experimental. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB; HRQC5; HRQM2; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748627707
- ISBN
- 9780748627707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.23
€ 38.99
€ 35.23
Paperback. An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930's. Editor(s): Coughlan, Patricia; Davis, Alex. Series: Poetry/literary criticism. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004380
- ISBN
- 9781859180617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930's. Editor(s): Coughlan, Patricia; Davis, Alex. Series: Poetry/literary criticism. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540. 318pp. A significant re-evaluation of the work of the poets of the 1930's who turned to European and Anglo-American modernism for their formal and thematic inspiration
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- 9781859180617
- ISBN
- 9781859180617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230786
- ISBN
- 9780631230786
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Condition: New
€ 54.99
€ 54.99
Hardcover. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230779
- ISBN
- 9780631230779
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Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Paperback. An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy. Editor(s): McFarlane, James Walter; Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 688
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140138320
- ISBN
- 9780140138320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138931626
- ISBN
- 9781138931626
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Condition: New
€ 32.22
€ 32.22
Focuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237436
- ISBN
- 9780812237436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.23
€ 76.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBG; HBJD; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551116341
- ISBN
- 9781551116341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.06
€ 41.99
€ 37.06
Paperback. An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America. Num Pages: 752 pages, 166 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; ACX; AV; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0006766
- ISBN
- 9780500281512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, this volume brings together a collection of Sartrean gems. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140189216
- ISBN
- 9780140189216
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
€ 19.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. The first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature. Editor(s): Hartley, Lauran R.; Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia. Num Pages: 424 pages, 31 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GDT; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342779
- ISBN
- 9780822342779
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardcover. Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. It offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and suffering, and new interpretation of "ethics" and "evil". Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692415
- ISBN
- 9780748692415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.33€ 102.99
€ 106.33
€ 102.99
hardcover. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442640566
- ISBN
- 9781442640566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.05
€ 59.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347721
- ISBN
- 9780936347721
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.38
€ 27.99
€ 21.38
Paperback. A satirical attack on what William Beckford perceived as characteristically feminine novel-writing. Editor(s): Gemmett, Robert J. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845886080
- ISBN
- 9781845886080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.29
€ 19.99
€ 18.29
Paperback. This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624515
- ISBN
- 9780748624515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.54
€ 41.99
€ 37.54