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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, the author presents a collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility. Series: Quarry Books. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; RGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219022
ISBN
9780253219022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

paperback. In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; AKLC; DNJ; DSK; FXZ; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
SKU
9780224080897
ISBN
9780224080897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.68

Paperback. Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691013220
ISBN
9780691013220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.59

Paperback. The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims. Num Pages: 348 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064215
ISBN
9780226064215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

Hardcover. Series: Memento. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Little Island Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993505621
ISBN
9780993505621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CJCW; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603285
ISBN
9780691603285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CJCW; DSB; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632636
ISBN
9780691632636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.74

Hardcover. This book examines Willa Cather's conceptions through her numerous works. Hively's study combines Cather's interest in the historians, the philosophers, and the mythographers, to examine nine of her novels on three levels. Num Pages: 212 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819194817
ISBN
9780819194817
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.64

Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSK; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 533.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812233711
ISBN
9780812233711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.14

Hardback. A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844143
ISBN
9781843844143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.57

hardcover. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482362
ISBN
9781611482362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.79

Paperback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758338
ISBN
9780804758338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820345994
ISBN
9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.53

Hardcover. A comprehensive look at the life and poetry of Sa'di - the poet of life, love and compassion. Series: Makers of the Muslim World. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851684731
ISBN
9781851684731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.86

Paperback. S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthesa s system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzaca s novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631176077
ISBN
9780631176077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.11

Hardcover. A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381946
ISBN
9781781381946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.12

Editor(s): Condee, Nancy; Clark, Katerina; Slobin, Mark; Slobin, Dan I. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781618112149
ISBN
9781618112149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
1st ed. 1982
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349044207
ISBN
9781349044207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.76

A collection of informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. It discusses the recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. Editor(s): Parts, Lyudmila, PhD. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843444
ISBN
9781934843444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.50
€ 121.33

Hardback. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 171. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910338
ISBN
9781575910338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.77

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