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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth - and twentieth-century Greece. This book provides an analysis of his role in modern Greek culture. It addresses the issues reflected in the poet's revival: political and linguistic nationalism, literary and cultural authenticity versus creativity, censorship, and social strife. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 6 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBB; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691009568
ISBN
9780691009568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.39
€ 85.82

Paperback. This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir." Illustrator(s): Pignon-Ernest, Ernest. Translator(s): Bennington, Geoffrey. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5741 x 5411 x 9. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804737951
ISBN
9780804737951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442637238
ISBN
9781442637238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.77

Paperback. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Series Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364. A Theory of Literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 232 pages. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 14. Weight: 360. Series Editor(s) :McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748655083
ISBN
9780748655083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226299495
ISBN
9780226299495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.78
€ 48.76

Paperback. The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848 novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrations as well as a textual appendix. Editor(s): Shillingsburg, Peter L. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 896 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 143 x 29. Weight in Grams: 754.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
892
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393965957
ISBN
9780393965957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259775
ISBN
9780803259775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.99

Hardcover. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 324 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 40 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855663022
ISBN
9781855663022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.88

Paperback. Reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. This book argues that Dracula should be read as a text torn between the stances of the colonizer and the colonized, unable to accept or reject the racialised images of backwardness that dogged debates about Irish nationhood. It is suitable for scholars of Victorian fiction. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317982
ISBN
9780822317982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardback. Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350224
ISBN
9780822350224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.75

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350392
ISBN
9780822350392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688584
ISBN
9780856688584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. Spend some time with the wisest poets of our age and the past to discover your spiritual potential. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782793700
ISBN
9781782793700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Hardcover. Editor(s): Friedman, Ellen G.; Martin, Richard; Firedman, Ellen G. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564780799
ISBN
9781564780799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138187801
ISBN
9781138187801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.14

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
316
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633129
ISBN
9780815633129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.80

Paperback. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122120
ISBN
9780691122120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.46

paperback. Offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a context for understanding debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, this work contributes to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322474
ISBN
9780822322474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Poetry can be a great way to get people talking about difficult issues around mental health. This book is a complete guide to using poetry for this purpose. It includes a collection of over 100 poems written by the author with accompanying activities, as well as a 50 prompts to encourage clients to write their own poems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; MMJT; MQTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785920530
ISBN
9781785920530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.36

Hardback. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405147231
ISBN
9781405147231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.08

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