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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121468
ISBN
9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. A fresh new edition of Shakespeare's exuberant early comedy, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors David Thacker and Edward Hall, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and an illuminating introduction to the play by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300910
ISBN
9780230300910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.20

Paperback. Editor(s): Carroll, William. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
3Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436950
ISBN
9781903436950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Waith, Eugene M. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537457
ISBN
9780199537457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.16

Hardback. This publication presents facsimilies of two contrasting originals of Blake's Songs, together with a background narrative taking the reader from 1700 through the 1790s. Illustrated. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, facsims.(some col.),map,plan. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838635667
ISBN
9780838635667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.03

Hardback. Literary professors, and academia in general, have a history of turning a blind eye against popular fiction but why? The Ulysses Delusion explores this question by linking this literary condescension to a wider discussion on the gendered history of reading novels. Topics include Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137553621
ISBN
9781137553621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

hardcover. The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The Ulysses Trials chronicles the progress of the trials and adds not only to the understanding of Joyce but also to the history of the laws of obscenity, censorship and freedom of speech. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Signed and inscribed to Ivor. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031535
ISBN
9781843516682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. Irish writers who were considered Irish by the English, and English by the Irish are discussed here - including Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sheridan le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen and James Joyce. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530 Paperback, white spine. Keywords: 20th Century Ireland. 280pp
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KON0819945
ISBN
9781900621076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 28.00
€ 22.00

The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199662302
ISBN
9780199662302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 150.91

Paperback. This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 colour illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HRQX; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055614
ISBN
9780719055614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Grenville, Bruce. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20col.ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551521169
ISBN
9781551521169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.11

Hardback. In the 1930s, Ayn Rand was asked to adapt her first novel, We the Living, for the theatre. Her first statement against communism, it sold over 3 million copies. This edition contains two unpublished versions of the play (the latter entitled The Unconquered), and is the first substantial piece of Rand's fiction to publish in over twenty years. Editor(s): Mayhew, Professor Robert. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137428738
ISBN
9781137428738
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.58

Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415192095
ISBN
9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.07

Hardback. This is an analytical study of "The Phantom of the Opera" in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the 21st century. It reveals the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; APF; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293468
ISBN
9780312293468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.86

Paperback. W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 406 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Zisselsberger, Markus. The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 560.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
404
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135667
ISBN
9781571135667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 41.99

Paperback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136396
ISBN
9780231136396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.81

Hardback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136389
ISBN
9780231136389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.12

Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674492004
ISBN
9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.34

paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
384
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KIN0036482
ISBN
9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
384
SKU
KKD0009969
ISBN
9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
384
SKU
KRA0006680
ISBN
9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571310937
ISBN
9780571310937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.05

Paperback. Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. It also provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402354
ISBN
9781474402354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.31

Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748676293
ISBN
9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.03

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