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Literature: history & criticism

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
€ 29.90

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

€ 108.92

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

€ 31.99
€ 28.72

Paperback. This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage. Editor(s): Hanson, C. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339990
ISBN
9781349339990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage. Editor(s): Hanson, Clare. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230319462
ISBN
9780230319462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Paperback. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405147248
ISBN
9781405147248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.77

Hardback. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405147231
ISBN
9781405147231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.75

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

€ 32.45

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

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319465524
ISBN
9783319465524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.47

Hardcover. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 2AB; 2BM; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230354982
ISBN
9780230354982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349346790
ISBN
9781349346790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system. Num Pages: 127 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391895
ISBN
9780230391895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.59

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

€ 53.51
€ 42.58

Hardcover. Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456779
ISBN
9781137456779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.49

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

€ 50.99
€ 30.29

Paperback. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338337
ISBN
9781349338337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Hardcover. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, Rosalyn; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230303720
ISBN
9780230303720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138187801
ISBN
9781138187801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.57

Paperback. Editor(s): Waddell, N.; Reeve-Tucker, Ms. Alice. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349347636
ISBN
9781349347636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

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