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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938448
ISBN
9780813938448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.97

Paperback. This revealing new biography opens Anne's most private life to a new audience and shows the true nature of her relationships with her siblings, in particular with her sister Charlotte. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750982375
ISBN
9780750982375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Hardback. This work is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761817505
ISBN
9780761817505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.19

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747571124
ISBN
9780747571124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. This title investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels and Tolstoy the thinker, who questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilised world. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843024
ISBN
9781934843024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.20

Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480160
ISBN
9781611480160
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.95

In her own time and ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. This work argues that More's agenda was to control the poor, to prevent them rising in revolt against Church and King. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSB; HBTB; JFSC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122229
ISBN
9780813122229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.84

hardcover. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804729512
ISBN
9780804729512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.21

Paperback. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729529
ISBN
9780804729529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

paperback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804729482
ISBN
9780804729482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729475
ISBN
9780804729475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502691
ISBN
9781509502691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Hardback. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509502684
ISBN
9781509502684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R A B Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 750 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286252
ISBN
9780520286252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.26

Paperback. Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075433
ISBN
9780226075433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. Analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an integration of ontemporary methodologies - deconstruction, Marxism and feminism, this work turns explains major debates in the study of literature and culture. It is a useful tool for studying our own and other worlds of culture. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415389563
ISBN
9780415389563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.36

Paperback. Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087556
ISBN
9781844087556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.78

Paperback. In this autobiographical work, the author remembers his childhood in Warsaw, and especially the "bet din", or Jewish Court, in his father's home on working-class Krochmalna Street. In a world on the brink of modernity, Singer's gentle parents maintain a stubbornly traditional existence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099422662
ISBN
9780099422662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

Hardback. During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. They wrote letters, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. This book provides a cultural study of these letters. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b&w figures. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137928
ISBN
9780231137928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.12

Hardcover. An encyclopedic introduction to French Jewish literature as it has emerged since the late 1960s. This book provides an analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoal, and traces the development of the rich agenda of jeune litterature juive (young Jewish writing) from its beginnings in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630890
ISBN
9780815630890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.69

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