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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630052
ISBN
9780745630052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.93

Hardback. Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745630045
ISBN
9780745630045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.77

Paperback. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442627161
ISBN
9781442627161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. The first major work of literature written in Catalan and arguably the first European novel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADC; DSBB; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9781855663046
ISBN
9781855663046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.77

Hardback. This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491838
ISBN
9781611491838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.29

Hardback. Editor(s): Hynes, Samuel. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 150 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647531
ISBN
9780691647531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.82

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843597
ISBN
9781843843597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Hardback. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world. Series: Robson Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442650176
ISBN
9781442650176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.26

Hardcover. This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405106887
ISBN
9781405106887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.89

Paperback. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
second edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408361
ISBN
9781421408361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.23

Hardback. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408354
ISBN
9781421408354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.79

Hardcover. Roman Historiography presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader framework of Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era. Translator(s): Mueller, Hans-Friedrich. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121835
ISBN
9781405121835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.65

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691621746
ISBN
9780691621746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.81

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648576
ISBN
9780691648576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.58

Hardback. "Schoolcraft's memorable biography of Gary, the first to appear in English, will serve as a point of departure for anyone who is interested in twentieth-century French fiction."-Choice Series: Critical Authors and Issues. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236460
ISBN
9780812236460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.60

Hardcover. This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre; It will look at cinema's interest in Joyce as seen in important film versions of his work. It will bring together leading Joyce and film studies scholars. Editor(s): McCourt, John. Num Pages: 262 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184714
ISBN
9781859184714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Paperback. This Special Issue of the journal Paragraph proposes a new reading of the College de France Lectures of Roland Barthes. Editor(s): Pieters, Jurgen; Pint, Kris. Series: Paragraph Special Issues. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
122
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748636921
ISBN
9780748636921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.09

Hardcover. A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318436
ISBN
9781846318436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Paperback. Offers teachers, students and any lover of literature a guide to the major works of Roddy Doyle. This title also includes an exclusive in-depth interview with Roddy Doyle relating specifically to the novels under discussion. It puts Roddy Doyle's themes, genre and narrative techniques under scrutiny. Series: Vintage Living Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099452195
ISBN
9780099452195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Bolton, Christopher; Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; APFV; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 182 x 20. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649747
ISBN
9780816649747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.99

Hardback. This collection of essays attempts to illustrate the art and complexity of the work of American poet, Robinson Jeffers, while presenting insights into his work and its perception amongst his contemporaries. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823215652
ISBN
9780823215652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.86

paperback. American Poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was educated in the classics from an early age and published his first book of poetry in 1912. This book includes essays that attempts to illustrate the art and complexity of Jeffers, while presenting insights into his work and its perception among his contemporaries. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823215669
ISBN
9780823215669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardcover. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of critical and philosophical perspectives, the cultural manifestations of "Robinson Crusoe" in different centuries, in different media and in different genres. It provides different theoretical and critical approaches to the subject. Editor(s): Spaas, Lieve; Stimpson, Brian. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 34. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1996th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333631737
ISBN
9780333631737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.39

Hardback. This study of fantasy author Robin McKinley is the first full-length, in-depth analysis of the author's works, including her award-winning books The Blue Sword (Newbery Honor, 1983) and The Hero and the Crown (Newbery Medal, 1985). Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810858190
ISBN
9780810858190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.68

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