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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. Now available in paperback, this collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy. An updated introduction looks at the implications of the Brand/Ross controversy. Editor(s): Lockyer, Sharon; Pickering, Michael. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594500
ISBN
9780230594500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.72

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

€ 65.77

Hardcover. Editor(s): Palmgren, Jennifer A.; Holloway, Lorretta M. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967350
ISBN
9781403967350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

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

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

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

€ 58.77
€ 46.84

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

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

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

€ 30.99
€ 24.66

paperback. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, this volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Editor(s): Judge, Joan; Hu, Ying. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. Num Pages: 446 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520289734
ISBN
9780520289734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.72

Paperback. The phenomenon of 'literary Chinatown' - the ghettoization of Chinese American literature - was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. This book examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987064
ISBN
9780295987064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Beyond Literary Theory is not representative of any particular school of criticism. Its purpose is to demonstrate the scope and limits of critical theories based on logic, scientism, and psychoanalysis. Eduard H. Strauch allows readers to explore beyond literary theory to discover dimensions of human experience that define timeless literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761819929
ISBN
9780761819929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804797016
ISBN
9780804797016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Hardback. Critical studies of Turgenev have tended to focus on his realistic portrayals of nineteenth-century Russian life and have therefore closely allied Turgenev with the dominant literary movement of that time, Realism. This book reveals the non-Realist literary patterns that distinguish Turgenev's fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718738
ISBN
9780804718738
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020460
ISBN
9780268020460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102675
ISBN
9780230102675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about 21st-century ideas of nature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137033994
ISBN
9781137033994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Paperback. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about21st-century ideas of nature." Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287093
ISBN
9781349287093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This text looks at the difference that differences make in a globalized world. Gunn uses the work of Henry James, John Dewey and others, as well as postcolonial writings, literature on the Holocaust and other literature to show how pragmatism can better account for the consequences of diversity. Num Pages: 258 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HB; HP; JFC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226310640
ISBN
9780226310640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

hardcover. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035400
ISBN
9780802035400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.88

Paperback. Race, ethnicity, and the American New Woman Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 458. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075636
ISBN
9780252075636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481037
ISBN
9781611481037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.56

Paperback. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294. Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. 200 pages. This is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619661
ISBN
9780230619661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 45.89

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSBH; DSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403970091
ISBN
9781403970091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 46.83

Hardback. Editor(s): Giordano, Paolo A.; Tamburri, Anthony Julian. Num Pages: 305 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838637326
ISBN
9780838637326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.27

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