Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
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
€ 155.99
€ 155.99
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
€ 116.70€ 112.72
€ 116.70
€ 112.72
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. .
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- 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
€ 106.45
€ 106.45
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
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
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€ 25.81
€ 32.99
€ 25.81
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
€ 37.17
€ 37.17
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
€ 82.63
€ 82.63
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€ 39.48
€ 47.99
€ 39.48
Paperback. Series: Opuscula Graecolatina S. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788788073133
- ISBN
- 9788788073133
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.62
€ 14.99
€ 12.62
Hardback. A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844471
- ISBN
- 9781843844471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823231546
- ISBN
- 9780823231546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.13
€ 41.99
€ 37.13
Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231539
- ISBN
- 9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.87
€ 110.87
Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274017
- ISBN
- 9780823274017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.81
€ 132.81
Hardcover. This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220232
- ISBN
- 9780230220232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Nikkanen, Anita. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474266147
- ISBN
- 9781474266147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687303
- ISBN
- 9780856687303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.01
€ 33.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. "Offers new perspectives on the history of propaganda, explores how it has evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and advances a nuanced understanding of what it means to call discourse propaganda"-- Num Pages: 277 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809335060
- ISBN
- 9780809335060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Paperback. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571209736
- ISBN
- 9780571209736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856684722
- ISBN
- 9780856684722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.75
€ 33.99
€ 30.75
Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019079
- ISBN
- 9780691019079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.76
€ 45.99
€ 33.76
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces
. Ed(S): Ennis, Daniel J.; Slagle, Judith Bai...
Hardback. Editor(s): Ennis, Daniel J.; Slagle, Judith Bailey. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493108
- ISBN
- 9781611493108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.69
€ 145.69
Hardback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3JF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637167
- ISBN
- 9780691637167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.42
€ 147.42
Paperback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608761
- ISBN
- 9780691608761
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.32
€ 54.99
€ 39.32
hardcover. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812238259
- ISBN
- 9780812238259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.84
€ 94.84