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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. One of Shakespeare's late plays, The Winter's Tale falls into two distinct parts: the first part tragedy and the second, comedy. John Pitcher's lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance. Editor(s): Pitcher, John. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 illustrations in introduction. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436356
ISBN
9781903436356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Shakespeare s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh." Editor(s): Branagh, Kenneth; Ashford, Ron. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425408
ISBN
9781848425408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.69

Paperback. With an unusual combination of intense drama and comedic moments, The Winters Tale remains one of Shakespeares most complicated and captivating plays. Editor(s): Aasand, Hardin L. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554810901
ISBN
9781554810901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199535910
ISBN
9780199535910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.99

Hardcover. Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. She situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works. Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; APW; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780198749615
ISBN
9780198749615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040352
ISBN
9780268040352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. The author rediscovers the lost meaning of fairy tales and shows how they can have a profound influence on the developing mind of a child. Translator(s): Lawson, Polly. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; JFHF; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Floris Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863152085
ISBN
9780863152085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.78

Hardback. Editor(s): Serour, Aleya. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774164958
ISBN
9789774164958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. Masterly biography of Leigh Hunt - publisher, poet, critic and Republican, and the mentor of Keats and Shelley Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117706
ISBN
9780349117706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; 3JB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801499333
ISBN
9780801499333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. First translation of French novella (1801) about passion, social convention, obsession, and despair. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; HBJD; HRCV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772121230
ISBN
9781772121230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.02

paperback. Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Num Pages: 344 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300197204
ISBN
9780300197204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 69 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
69
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393313628
ISBN
9780393313628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. This title reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752451596
ISBN
9780752451596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804727228
ISBN
9780804727228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.67

Hardcover. Examines the integral role that six female authors played in Schiller's ambitious literary journal, "Die Horen" (1795-97). Beyond a critical discussion of the women's publications in Schiller's journal, this work addresses the range of problems associated with women's writing and publishing during the late eighteenth century. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139624
ISBN
9780874139624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.83

Paperback. When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435474
ISBN
9780140435474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Hardback. This study of the works of James Joyce, from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, finds an Aristotelian underpinning for much of Joyce's thinking on language and representation. In much of his writing, Joyce deals with the tension between visual and auditory modes of experiencing and representing. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480863
ISBN
9781611480863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CFA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443169
ISBN
9780801443169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.50

hardcover. In this extended meditation on the language of the self within contemporary social politics, the author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She studies why the requirement to be a something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that rings true in the ears of its own subject. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804736725
ISBN
9780804736725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.02

Paperback. Translator(s): Goshgarian, G. M.; Goshgarian, Gary J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 119. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482724
ISBN
9780801482724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.91

Paperback. This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270064
ISBN
9780823270064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Hardback. This book mounts a critique of persistently romantic assumptions in contemporary literary criticism and advances an original theory of literary production. Along the way, it offers new readings of major modernist novels of Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270057
ISBN
9780823270057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.23

Hardback. Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting from the modernist period. Examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and others, she shows how rewriting shapes literary style, and how the impulse to touch up can go too far. Num Pages: 322 pages, 11 line illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073128
ISBN
9780674073128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 40.95

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