Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Arabic novelists are increasingly finding a source of literary innovation and political transgression in the language and ideas of mediaeval Sufi thinkers and writers. This book presents close readings of the work of the Egyptian Gamal Al-Ghitany, the Algerian Taher Ouettar and the Touareg Libyan Ibrahim Al-Koni, all of whom have turned to Sufism. Series Editor(s): El-Enany, Rasheed. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641406
- ISBN
- 9780748641406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.94€ 101.56
€ 105.94
€ 101.56
Hardcover. This compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature Series: North American Religions Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814722992
- ISBN
- 9780814722992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.37
€ 58.37
Paperback. John Hodgart's SCOTNOTE study guide examines two of Sue Glover's plays: Bondagers and The Straw Chair. Issues of set and staging are explored as well as the historical backgrounds and themes of the plays. This guide is suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 4K; 4KLR; 4KST; 4KSV; DSG; YQZ. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 151 x 209 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906841126
- ISBN
- 9781906841126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.26
€ 10.26
Hardback. The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784108
- ISBN
- 9780804784108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.40
€ 86.40
Paperback. Such Stuff as Dreams explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers. In this ground-breaking work, Oatley richly illustrates how fiction represents, at its core, a model that readers construct in collaboration with the writer. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470974575
- ISBN
- 9780470974575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.61
€ 26.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472400
- ISBN
- 9781611472400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.12
€ 130.12
Paperback. Offers an original way of thinking literary history and a new approach to the question of the relations between literature and politics in modernity Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823232819
- ISBN
- 9780823232819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.98
€ 26.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. Investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans' 1941 collaboration. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232802
- ISBN
- 9780823232802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.90
€ 75.90
Paperback. In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville's life and work, Michael Rogin shows that Melville's novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520051782
- ISBN
- 9780520051782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312107390
- ISBN
- 9780312107390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Num Pages: 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 2AGZ; 3JJP; APF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319409603
- ISBN
- 9783319409603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.64
€ 119.64
Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. This book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 483.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231355
- ISBN
- 9780823231355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.32
€ 75.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 347.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963406
- ISBN
- 9781403963406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardback. Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime argues that Virginia Woolf transformed the sublime experience in her writing to make room for the democratic invention of female genius. From canonical to lesser known works, O'Hara places her ironic novels in the revisionary literary and critical tradition extending from the Elizabethans to the present. Num Pages: 100 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137590596
- ISBN
- 9781137590596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. From his forays into science fiction to his psychological novels and films, Abe Kobo weaves together a range of 'voices': the styles of science and the language of literary forms. This book argues that the crisis of identity and postwar anomie in Abe's works is inseparable from the need to marshal these different scientific and literary voices. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032781
- ISBN
- 9780674032781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.59
€ 44.99
€ 37.59
Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415239
- ISBN
- 9781421415239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.92€ 50.69
€ 55.92
€ 50.69
Hardcover. Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader's guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British Romanticism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 220 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341395
- ISBN
- 9780230341395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344239
- ISBN
- 9781349344239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. This collection of essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance focuses on the point of contact between an artist and society that prompts the literary imagination to respond either with the creation of a new character or with the demonstration of change in an old one. Editor(s): White, Robert A. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874135442
- ISBN
- 9780874135442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.97
€ 138.97
hardcover. This volume uses a reading of the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval to elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan. Num Pages: 392 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731225
- ISBN
- 9780804731225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.18
€ 110.18