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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. the Making of the English Epyllion. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 232 pages. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight: 500.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644650
ISBN
9780748644650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 109.28

Hardback. Provides a feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. This book considers the positions and positioning of female figures and female voices within Jewish male discourse. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237108
ISBN
9780812237108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.45

Paperback. Presents a look at the work, career, and literary reputation of John Updike. By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms - novel, poem, and short story. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these forms. This book offers a portrait of the writer and his work. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558495074
ISBN
9781558495074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.57

Hardback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813934044
ISBN
9780813934044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.62

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813934051
ISBN
9780813934051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.91

Paperback. Revelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City's legendary bookshop. Editor(s): Strand, Jessica; Aguilar, Andrea. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
9780393352085
ISBN
9780393352085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. This volume of RIM focuses on the inscriptions of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a city made famous by archaeological excavations of its spectacular burial sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; DB; DSB; HBLA1; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442623767
ISBN
9781442623767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.56
€ 87.75

paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816641819
ISBN
9780816641819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.07

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813547855
ISBN
9780813547855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.04

Hardback. Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 324 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726450
ISBN
9780804726450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.13

Paperback. Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812220841
ISBN
9780812220841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780812240436
ISBN
9780812240436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.84

paperback. Presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within 19th-century literature, ending with its eventual confrontation with Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species". This book touches on social and cultural anxieties that offer both historical and contemporary insights. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326687
ISBN
9780822326687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.41

Paperback. A systematic, comprehensive approach on how to conduct a review of the literature in mixed methods research. Series: Mixed Methods Research Series. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSR; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781483358291
ISBN
9781483358291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.57

Paperback. Poetry can be a great way to get people talking about difficult issues around mental health. This book is a complete guide to using poetry for this purpose. It includes a collection of over 100 poems written by the author with accompanying activities, as well as a 50 prompts to encourage clients to write their own poems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; MMJT; MQTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785920530
ISBN
9781785920530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.44

paperback. Offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a context for understanding debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, this work contributes to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322474
ISBN
9780822322474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557534842
ISBN
9781557534842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.98

Paperback. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122120
ISBN
9780691122120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 42.52

Hardcover. The 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. This book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Publisher
Central European Univ Pr
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9789633861813
ISBN
9789633861813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.56

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
316
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633129
ISBN
9780815633129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 30.03

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