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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846272721
- ISBN
- 9781846272721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.26
€ 10.99
€ 9.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483123
- ISBN
- 9781611483123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.17
€ 125.17
Hardcover. Offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Marcel Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, and filmmakers, this title traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity across the crucial cultural links between Europe and Palestine. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226725789
- ISBN
- 9780226725789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.05
€ 52.99
€ 41.05
Hardback. This study puts Shakespearean drama into the context of one of the centuryOs greatest preoccupations, the study and use of rhetoric Num Pages: 369 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460315
- ISBN
- 9781611460315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.31
€ 146.31
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 564 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639871
- ISBN
- 9780691639871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 273.70
€ 273.70
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 564 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691611921
- ISBN
- 9780691611921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.37€ 71.03
€ 92.37
€ 71.03
Paperback. Rooted in the age-old problem of the fraught relationship between fathers and sons, this title is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of words and performance. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142234
- ISBN
- 9780226142234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.50
€ 18.99
€ 16.50
Hardcover. "A child is a man in small letter," wrote Bishop John Earle in the seventeenth century. "His father hath writ him as his own little story." In this title, the writer acknowledges the author of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014418
- ISBN
- 9780226014418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.25
€ 24.99
€ 20.25
Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813117249
- ISBN
- 9780813117249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.54
€ 46.54
Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire
Janiszewski, Pawel; Stebnicka, Krystyna; Szab...
Hardback. This volume - the first project of its kind in the field - collates c. 1200 biographical entries on Greek sophists and rhetors who flourished in the Roman Empire from the first to the seventh century AD. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 195 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198713401
- ISBN
- 9780198713401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 347.03
€ 347.03
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794296
- ISBN
- 9780814794296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156950
- ISBN
- 9780231156950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.41
€ 37.99
€ 27.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462. Modernism and the Banality of Empire. 248 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156943
- ISBN
- 9780231156943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.22€ 79.80
€ 104.22
€ 79.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936802
- ISBN
- 9780813936802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.08
€ 61.08
Paperback. This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings available in a paperback edition. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 816 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DNF; DQ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 816
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393967920
- ISBN
- 9780393967920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.68
€ 25.99
€ 22.68
Hardback. Series: Ars Rossica. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618111616
- ISBN
- 9781618111616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.49
€ 147.49
Hardback. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. 224 pages. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight: 486.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748640850
- ISBN
- 9780748640850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51€ 108.37
€ 112.51
€ 108.37
hardcover. Simultaneously challenging conventional male-dominated thought and revisionist modern feminism, this book argues that gendered identities can best be conceived relationally, and thus that a fuller understanding of gender roles in the 18th century (and by extension in our own) must include an analysis of men's place in the discourse of domesticity. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 661. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733533
- ISBN
- 9780804733533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.46
€ 100.46
Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754337
- ISBN
- 9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.27
€ 111.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022365
- ISBN
- 9780268022365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.22
€ 40.99
€ 36.22
Paperback. A study of the making of saintly reputations, showing how sainthood, although frequently seen as a personal trait, is actually the product of negotiations between particular individuals and their communities. This text examines the mechanics of sainthood. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 225 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226439723
- ISBN
- 9780226439723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
€ 32.99
€ 26.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936567
- ISBN
- 9780813936567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.30
€ 35.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936550
- ISBN
- 9780813936550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.28
€ 79.28
Hardcover. A magisterial survey of the Prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 350 years that presents a cross-cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based the close examination of original published manuscripts. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSB; HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364. 1650 to the Present. 320 pages. A magisterial survey of the Prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 350 years that presents a cross-cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based the close examination of original published manuscripts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSB; HRH. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Islamic Foundation
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860374787
- ISBN
- 9780860374787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.46
€ 47.99
€ 37.46