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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. I remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson singing rousing spirituals from the living room. Afterwards my chin was strangely smooth, and seemed to have shrunk. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781770091443
ISBN
9781770091443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815623793
ISBN
9780815623793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691171241
ISBN
9780691171241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Presents essays on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. This book draws from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history and challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West. Editor(s): Yu, Pauline; Bol, Peter; Owen, Stephen; Peterson, Willard. Series: Studies on China. Num Pages: 292 pages, 6 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBG; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224667
ISBN
9780520224667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; CJCR; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 187 x 21. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415677479
ISBN
9780415677479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.55

Paperback. Traces the experiences and encounters of the author's life. This title recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282594
ISBN
9780099282594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. A critical edition of Scott's first novel about Edward Waverley, a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Editor(s): Garside, Peter. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 608 pages, None. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 934.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
608
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605675
ISBN
9780748605675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.40

Hardcover. This book introduces new research about the history of attention--in politics, medicine, science, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war--to reframe British Romantic poetry as proposing and eliciting alternative modes of watchfulness, attention, and neglect. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796958
ISBN
9780804796958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474277396
ISBN
9781474277396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

Paperback. "Waste "explores the question: from nuclear waste to digital detritus, what can we learn about ourselves from what we let go to waste? Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 152 pages, 20 b/w images. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628924367
ISBN
9781628924367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Hardcover. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490930
ISBN
9781611490930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.44

Paperback. This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Num Pages: 254 pages, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings, 12 musical examples. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; AVGH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226169163
ISBN
9780226169163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.73

Hardback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices -- this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773928
ISBN
9780804773928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.45

Paperback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s." Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773935
ISBN
9780804773935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Editor(s): Buttsworth, Sara; Abbenhuis, Maartje M. Num Pages: 243 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 296 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9789811026836
ISBN
9789811026836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; DSB; HBTZ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816670970
ISBN
9780816670970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme. Num Pages: 228 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; DSBH; HBJF1; HBW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815603771
ISBN
9780815603771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.57

Hardback. This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230291577
ISBN
9780230291577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.47

Hardback. Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre's surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Editor(s): Dwyer, Philip G. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; HBG; HBW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333071
ISBN
9781785333071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.91

Paperback. A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War. Editor(s): Rutherford, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJF; DCF; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555505
ISBN
9780199555505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

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