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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838637524
ISBN
9780838637524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.11

Hardback. Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essay on narrative and power.. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810199
ISBN
9781571810199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.08

Paperback. Explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. This volume features six additional essays, which cover a range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. It also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021433
ISBN
9780674021433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 407. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ohio University Press oh
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821416228
ISBN
9780821416228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.06

Hardback. This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being aiming to be more specific than either. Editor(s): Bal, Mieke. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 47 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730662
ISBN
9780804730662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.37

Paperback. Revisiting black trans-national culture in the 1920s and 1930s, Brent Edwards suggest that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international alliances. Num Pages: 408 pages, 15 halftones, 6 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674011038
ISBN
9780674011038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482058
ISBN
9781611482058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.77

Paperback. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419855
ISBN
9781421419855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.92

Paperback. A work in which the author turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554257
ISBN
9780099554257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.36

paperback. "An extraordinary acute interpretation of these poets and their aims and accomplishments." -Virginia Quarterly Review Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393007206
ISBN
9780393007206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.59

Paperback. Editor(s): Lang, Cecil Y. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 541 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
541
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468662
ISBN
9780226468662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.60

Paperback. An annotated parallel-text edition of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem in blank verse. Editor(s): Wordsworth, Jonathan. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433692
ISBN
9780140433692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.00
€ 16.49

paperback. Identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. This book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated English - that testify in various ways to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar avant-garde writings. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226349749
ISBN
9780226349749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 26.80

paperback. Translator(s): Briggs, Kate. Num Pages: 512 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: CBV; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 922.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136150
ISBN
9780231136150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.00

Hardback. Translator(s): Briggs, Kate. Num Pages: 512 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: CBV; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136143
ISBN
9780231136143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.72
€ 89.59

Num Pages: 176 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813120539
ISBN
9780813120539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.15

Paperback. Adopting research methodologies of revision and recovery, this edition is constructed around bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works addressing the Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth through twentieth century periods within the history of rhetoric. It recasts study in the history of rhetoric. Editor(s): Gaillet, Lynee Lewis; Horner, Winifred Bryan. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
Third Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826218933
ISBN
9780826218933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.25

Paperback. Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189987
ISBN
9780141189987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408123119
ISBN
9781408123119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.47

Paperback. The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626980
ISBN
9781442626980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.97

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