Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The first collection of its kind in scope and ambition, this volume brings together the most prominent western writers of the current generation to create new visions of the American West--"the West that is still becoming" Editor(s): Stegner, Lynn; Rowland, Russell. Num Pages: 418 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 814. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292726864
- ISBN
- 9780292726864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 43.30
€ 47.99
€ 43.30
Paperback. Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Num Pages: 213 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 2ABM; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press California
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520231856
- ISBN
- 9780520231856
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.13
€ 33.99
€ 25.13
Hardcover. This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120877
- ISBN
- 9780230120877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Paperback. This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349299003
- ISBN
- 9781349299003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
. Ed(S): Frassetto, Michael; Blanks, David R.
Paperback. Editor(s): Frassetto, Michael; Blanks, David R. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349416745
- ISBN
- 9781349416745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.62
€ 105.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845888336
- ISBN
- 9781845888336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.46
€ 20.00
€ 16.46
Hardback. This text relates the experiences of a range of Western writers who went to Japan as teachers and lecturers, covering a period of over 100 years. It includes a discussion of East/West cultural differences. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721742
- ISBN
- 9780333721742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Hardback. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 210 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803237629
- ISBN
- 9780803237629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Paperback. Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from such classic films as "Stagecoach" to spaghetti Westerns like "A Fistful of Dollars", this book shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture. Num Pages: 348 pages, 30 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532356
- ISBN
- 9780226532356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 218 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manic D Press, Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933149844
- ISBN
- 9781933149844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.54
€ 16.99
€ 15.54
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 623.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616332
- ISBN
- 9780230616332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.05
€ 68.05
Hardback. Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981. Num Pages: 175 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810814134
- ISBN
- 9780810814134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.98
€ 96.98
Paperback. Suitable for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines, this book describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard for whites to see and identifies common white racial patterns. Series: Counterpoints. Num Pages: 318 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JKS; JMAL; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433111150
- ISBN
- 9781433111150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.50
€ 55.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471496
- ISBN
- 9781611471496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.85
€ 121.85
Hardback. Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both writers' works, What Else But Love? considers the legacy of slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and mothers to the question of black manhood. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102766
- ISBN
- 9780231102766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.54
€ 134.54
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452970
- ISBN
- 9780801452970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.48
€ 46.48
Hardback. Examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of postcolonial and world literature and looks at emergent formations of canons and classics at large. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785211
- ISBN
- 9780804785211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.96
€ 150.96
Paperback. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360926
- ISBN
- 9780822360926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardback. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah draws on accounts of the world as a temporal process from Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, and Derrida, and analyzes several postcolonial novels to articulate a normative theory of world literature's capacity to open up new possibilities for remaking the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360780
- ISBN
- 9780822360780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Paperback. In What is Literature? sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 194 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415254045
- ISBN
- 9780415254045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00
€ 21.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781405182942
- ISBN
- 9781405182942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.87
€ 43.87
Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226015170
- ISBN
- 9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049861
- ISBN
- 9780691049861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95