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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988917
ISBN
9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.25

Hardback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988900
ISBN
9780295988900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.27

Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural studies to reevaluate a foundational assumption that has driven much of the discourse in their fields. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407371
ISBN
9781421407371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490503
ISBN
9781611490503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.80

Hardback. This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety of cultural and ideological formations. Editor(s): Choudhury, Mita; Rosenthal, Laura J. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 617.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481266
ISBN
9781611481266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.64

Hardcover. Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504325
ISBN
9780674504325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Hardback. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages. 244 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 22. Weight: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842323
ISBN
9781843842323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. This user-friendly textbook for students of creative writing explores the issue of picture books, literacy and writing for children in their early years. Andrew Melrose encourages students to examine the critical questions in child literacy through an exploration of the fusion of text and images. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 7 black & white tables, 13 black & white halftones, 6 blac. BIC Classification: DSY; JNLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 245 x 10. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415617505
ISBN
9780415617505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816628551
ISBN
9780816628551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 407 x 208 x 31. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590170595
ISBN
9781590170595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.22

Anesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired--and influenced--the deliberate construction of the Legend of Henry James. Num Pages: 272 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 493.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769327
ISBN
9780804769327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489860
ISBN
9780801489860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550963564
ISBN
9781550963564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.84

paperback. Investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. This book documents the extent to which economics influenced literature and philosophy and the surprising degree to which literature and philosophy participated in the creation of modern economic paradigms. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; HPCD; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295988375
ISBN
9780295988375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.84

hardcover. Examines the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. Based on readings of canonical literary and philosophical texts, the author explores how this confluence led to a rich cross-fertilization between economic and literary thought in Germany between 1770-1850. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; HPCD; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988368
ISBN
9780295988368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Paperback. An original theory that connects the development of coinage to the origins of rational philosophy in ancient Greece. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560. Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy. 384 pages. An original theory that connects the development of coinage to the origins of rational philosophy in ancient Greece. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 23. Weight: 596.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521539920
ISBN
9780521539920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.33

Hardcover. Editor(s): Woodbridge, Linda. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403963079
ISBN
9781403963079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. Editor(s): Woodbridge, L. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349527304
ISBN
9781349527304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935096160
ISBN
9781935096160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.26

Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, Richard. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137293299
ISBN
9781137293299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.30

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349451135
ISBN
9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Paperback. Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's biography and other studies of her, the author's own account of her early life should hold fascination for its unexpected detail and clear-sighted judgement of Victorian values. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712646185
ISBN
9780712646185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.53

Hardback. This book is a genre history that traces the second life, in the nineteenth century, of a poetic form that had enjoyed its original heyday three hundred years earlier. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838636305
ISBN
9780838636305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.50

Hardback. "Published in the U.S.A. in 1985 under the title To analyze delight"--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333375518
ISBN
9780333375518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

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