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Literature: history & criticism

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

€ 101.24

Paperback. 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: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405147248
ISBN
9781405147248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.74

paperback. Presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within 19th-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species". This book touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326687
ISBN
9780822326687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.27

Hardback. An exploration of why humans are drawn to fictional stories through the application of evolution theory and cognitive science Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803230262
ISBN
9780803230262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.85

Hardback. Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780812240436
ISBN
9780812240436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.26

Paperback. Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812220841
ISBN
9780812220841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.38

Hardback. Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 324 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726450
ISBN
9780804726450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.73

Paperback. This volume of RIM focuses on the inscriptions of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a city made famous by archaeological excavations of its spectacular burial sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; DB; DSB; HBLA1; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442623767
ISBN
9781442623767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.75

Paperback. Revelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City's legendary bookshop. Editor(s): Strand, Jessica; Aguilar, Andrea. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
9780393352085
ISBN
9780393352085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813934051
ISBN
9780813934051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.41

Hardback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813934044
ISBN
9780813934044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.05

Hardback. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 38. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition, 1st Printing
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061896453
ISBN
9780061896453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.81

Paperback. Gathers almost twenty years of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to find- writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. History. Editor(s): Stosuy, Brandon; Cooper, Dennis; Myles, Eileen. Num Pages: 500 pages, 180 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 217 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740118
ISBN
9780814740118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.75

Paperback. This "Critical Edition" uses the text of the first edition, published in 1901. Accompanying material includes contemporary reviews, eight essays which present a variety of critical perspectives, and a collection of letters that reveal the process by which the autobiography was written. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Critical
SKU
V9780393967258
ISBN
9780393967258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.21

Hardback. Provides a feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. This book considers the positions and positioning of female figures and female voices within Jewish male discourse. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237108
ISBN
9780812237108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.64

Hardcover. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. the Making of the English Epyllion. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 232 pages. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight: 500.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644650
ISBN
9780748644650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.60

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245253
ISBN
9780823245253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501702365
ISBN
9781501702365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.00

Paperback. Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, he considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221466
ISBN
9780812221466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.54

Paperback. For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226085838
ISBN
9780226085838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226447889
ISBN
9780226447889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.69

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226447742
ISBN
9780226447742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 77.70

Paperback. Groundbreaking study of theoretical, political, and environmental issues around the culture and ethics of petroculture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120363
ISBN
9781772120363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.51

Hardcover. A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels. 358 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609803490
ISBN
9781609803490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.50

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