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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Editor(s): Besserman, Lawrence. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967329
ISBN
9781403967329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. New essays by distinguished scholars on "sacred" and "secular" in medieval and early modern literature and history. Editor(s): Besserman, Lawrence. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530007
ISBN
9781349530007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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
€ 24.07

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

€ 46.54

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

€ 37.09

Hardcover. Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson and many others, often now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333681596
ISBN
9780333681596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Trott, N.; Perry, Seamus. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349647248
ISBN
9781349647248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

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

€ 140.98

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

€ 71.70

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

€ 130.14

Paperback. Presenting ten essays, the author addresses the Russian minds of the nineteenth century: Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky and Tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. He describes this as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world'. Editor(s): Hardy, Henry. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; DSBF; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141442204
ISBN
9780141442204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

Hardcover. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597805
ISBN
9781841597805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Hardcover. In his study of a leading Russian literary journal during the last decade of Soviet power, Simon Cosgrove argues that Russian nationalism was an important ideological element in Soviet political life, consisting of two opposing tendencies. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPN; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFN; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333802038
ISBN
9780333802038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

paperback. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJ; HBJD; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2004
SKU
V9781349421459
ISBN
9781349421459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.24

Hardcover. This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137508003
ISBN
9781137508003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.17

hardcover. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 201 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087249
ISBN
9780802087249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802086709
ISBN
9780802086709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.95

Hardback. Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian literary demonism has so far received little critical attention. Editor(s): Davidson, Pamela. Series: Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 548 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1F; 2AGR; DSB; GTB; HRQX9; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 940.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
548
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571817587
ISBN
9781571817587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 218.28

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590332894
ISBN
9781590332894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.81
€ 56.52

Paperback. Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? This book uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare', as an example. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, 20 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192801449
ISBN
9780192801449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

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