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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieval Irish inherited and further transformed this tradition, producing vivid eschatological narratives which had a profound Editor(s): Carey, John; Nic Carthaigh, Emma; O'Dochartaigh, Caitriona. Num Pages: 964 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 252 x 59. Weight in Grams: 2732.
Publisher
Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781891271205
ISBN
9781891271205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.06

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637198
ISBN
9780691637198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 19 colour illustrations & 6 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; KNGV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501305498
ISBN
9781501305498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491319
ISBN
9781611491319
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.65

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452741
ISBN
9780801452741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

hardcover. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726665
ISBN
9780804726665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.79

Paperback. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726672
ISBN
9780804726672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

hardcover. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; 2ADT; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730211
ISBN
9780804730211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. Contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. This title focuses on the theme 'the end of the poem'. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571240814
ISBN
9780571240814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 14.65

Paperback. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADL; 2ADT; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 209.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730228
ISBN
9780804730228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482973
ISBN
9781611482973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.60

Hardback. Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719083839
ISBN
9780719083839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.60

Hardback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743457
ISBN
9780804743457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.43

Paperback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743464
ISBN
9780804743464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. "The Ends of Mourning" explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the crisis of contemporary culture with respect to the problem of mourning. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust and Freud's successor Lacan. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBZ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804747769
ISBN
9780804747769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.61

Paperback. "The Ends of Mourning" explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the crisis of contemporary culture with respect to the problem of mourning. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust and Freud's successor Lacan. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBZ; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804747776
ISBN
9780804747776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Rhetoric is an area of study without accepted certainties, not yet parcelled into subdivisions and adhering to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This text embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. Editor(s): Bender, John; Wellbery, David E. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3810 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718189
ISBN
9780804718189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

hardcover. Rhetoric is an area of study without accepted certainties, not yet parcelled into subdivisions and adhering to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This text embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. Editor(s): Bender, John; Wellbery, David E. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804718172
ISBN
9780804718172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Paperback. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. Editor(s): Levine, George; Knoepflmacher, U. C. Num Pages: 362 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520046405
ISBN
9780520046405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.28

Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 900.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646032
ISBN
9781442646032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.14

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