Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756877
- ISBN
- 9780804756877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.78
€ 96.78
Hardback. An investigation of English writing in seventeenth-century Ireland, and its connections to Shakespeare, Sidney and Milton. Num Pages: 310 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635. Fine in fine dust wrapper, showing light shelf and reading wear. Remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0024930
- ISBN
- 9780521843027
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 30.00
€ 30.00
Hardcover. Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America. This book offers a literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382882
- ISBN
- 9781781382882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.02
€ 171.02
Hardback. Here are the best of letters written to and from the editors of Poetry magazine (which T. S. Eliot called "an American institution") from 1962 through 2002, affording the reader a first-person account of the second revolution in American poetry. Virtually all of the more than five hundred letters have never been printed before. Editor(s): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566636568
- ISBN
- 9781566636568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.04
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935898
- ISBN
- 9780813935898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.61
€ 86.61
Hardcover. Between Two Fires examines the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War, revealing patterns of influence previously uncharted. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198744436
- ISBN
- 9780198744436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.31
€ 163.31
Paperback. Between Two Shores / Idir Dha Chladach Series: Reimagining Ireland. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Galway. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KOG0005815
- ISBN
- 9783034301442
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 32.00
€ 32.00
Paperback. An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719097614
- ISBN
- 9780719097614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.22
€ 37.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624885
- ISBN
- 9783837624885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.17€ 41.31
€ 52.17
€ 41.31
Paperback. Hallucination was always the ghost storys elephant in the room. Even before the vogue for psychical research and spiritualism began to influence writers at the end of the nineteenth century, tales of horror and the supernatural, of ghosts and demons, had been haunted by the possibility of some grand deception by the senses. But what is .. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196776
- ISBN
- 9781845196776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.61
€ 45.61
Hardback. According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192945
- ISBN
- 9781845192945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.54
€ 157.54
Paperback. In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page. Series: New Exeter Medieval Texts. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; 2AB; DD; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 133. .
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Critical, Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859892940
- ISBN
- 9780859892940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.71
€ 48.71
Hardback. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980.. Editor(s): Bullivant, Keith. Series: Modern German Studies: A Series of the German Studies Association. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 258 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571810373
- ISBN
- 9781571810373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.16
€ 148.16
Paperback. This collection of essays is devoted to the most important changes - in theme, language, structure, style, and production - that characterize the transformation of Athenian Comedy from the mid-fifth through the fourth century. Editor(s): Dobrov, Gregory W. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780788501401
- ISBN
- 9780788501401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.56
€ 60.56
Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231168434
- ISBN
- 9780231168434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.17
€ 41.17
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231168427
- ISBN
- 9780231168427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.12
€ 73.12
Paperback. A collection of 11 plays, from North America, the UK, and South Africa that delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. It provides historical background on South Asian migration and performance traditions in each region, along with critical introductions and biographical background on each playwright. Editor(s): Bose, Neilesh. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 712. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220684
- ISBN
- 9780253220684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.04
€ 40.04
Paperback. Editor(s): Shillinglaw, Susan; Hearle, Kevin. Num Pages: 374 pages, 4 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358600
- ISBN
- 9780817358600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.04
€ 43.04
Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484414
- ISBN
- 9780801484414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. This title evaluates archival sources and private correspondence between Opolsky and other literary figures, and includes a classified bibliography of Opolsky's work. It is suitable for students of Slavic and European literary history. Num Pages: 300 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGZ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 172. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024625713
- ISBN
- 9788024625713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.65
€ 37.65