Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of "Trojan Women," "Helen," and" Hecuba" in one volume also invites provocative engagement with issues of gender, history, warfare, and politics. Translator(s): Blessington, Francis. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299305246
- ISBN
- 9780299305246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.75
€ 23.75
paperback. Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712697903
- ISBN
- 9780712697903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.42
€ 24.99
€ 18.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 458. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821411391
- ISBN
- 9780821411391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.54
€ 52.54
Paperback. Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second collection of adaptations written by Lavirey. Editor(s): Cameron, Keith; Wright, Paul. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 106 pages, 1 facsim. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2ADT; DD; DQ; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895392
- ISBN
- 9780859895392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.87
€ 40.87
Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323150
- ISBN
- 9780822323150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.26
€ 41.99
€ 37.26
Paperback. This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them. Num Pages: 212 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075860
- ISBN
- 9780226075860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.34
€ 36.34
Hardback. Takes the reader on an exploration of this genre, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1993. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1035.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 784
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832602
- ISBN
- 9780810832602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 216.00
€ 216.00
Paperback. Looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300171464
- ISBN
- 9780300171464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.14
€ 44.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482669
- ISBN
- 9781611482669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.32
€ 113.32
Hardcover. Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812244854
- ISBN
- 9780812244854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.71
€ 83.71
Hardcover. In the spirit of Blake's vow of 'mental fight,' this work contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309736
- ISBN
- 9780226309736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.72€ 78.59
€ 94.72
€ 78.59
Paperback. Contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309743
- ISBN
- 9780226309743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.40
€ 47.40
Hardback. Seeks to understand why French literature of the period celebrated the very characters who were so persecuted in society at large. This book explores the relation between orthodoxy and deviance, authority and innovation, and will fascinate historians of ideas and literature as well as scholars of religion, critical theory, and philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226781693
- ISBN
- 9780226781693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.67
€ 63.67
Hardback. Series: New Studies in Modern Japan. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739138755
- ISBN
- 9780739138755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Hardcover. Frank and lively conversations with some of our finest contemporary women poets. These interviews have been culled from the pages of BELLES LETTRES REVIEW OF BOOKS BY WOMEN, a pioneering journal that for 12 years has brought to light the best of women's writing. Subjects covered are consistently engaging and as varied as the poets themselves. Editor(s): Mullaney, Janet Palmer. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472096800
- ISBN
- 9780472096800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.76
€ 103.76
Paperback. Presents Emily Dickinson as one of America's great thinkers. This book weaves together many strands in Dickinson's intellectual culture - philosophy, lexicography, religion, experimental science, the female Bildungsroman - and shows how she developed a lyricized and conversational hermeneutics suited to rethinking the discourses of her time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496842
- ISBN
- 9781558496842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.19
€ 44.19
Hardcover. Investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226761879
- ISBN
- 9780226761879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.78
€ 77.78
Hardback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756624
- ISBN
- 9780804756624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.20
€ 140.20
Hardback. A literary and cultural study combining social and political analysis along with a close reading of Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi +zdamar in order to present the current situation of the Turkish minority living in modern Germany. Editor(s): Horrocks, David; Kolinsky, Eva. Series: Culture and Society in Germany. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 tables and diagrams, 1 photograph, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVT; 2ACG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571818997
- ISBN
- 9781571818997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.73
€ 155.73
Paperback. Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction of English history. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1FB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110150
- ISBN
- 9780231110150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
Paperback. A narrative of loss and change, a love story, and a warning about the evils of materialism, the book chronicles two midwestern families trying to cope with the onset of industrialization. It tells the stories of two families: the Sheridans, whose integrity wanes as their wealth increases, and the Vertrees, who remain noble but impoverished. Illustrator(s): Chambers, C. E. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071133
- ISBN
- 9780252071133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.44
€ 31.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Kwakkel, Erik; McKitterick, Rosamond; Thomson, Rodney M. Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 48 colour 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Leiden University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789087281557
- ISBN
- 9789087281557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 49.02
€ 51.99
€ 49.02
Hardback. Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development by studying important critics, and analyzing cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727082
- ISBN
- 9780804727082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.91
€ 101.91
paperback. Series: Literature & Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780271019260
- ISBN
- 9780271019260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.37
€ 50.37