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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. This biography is based on numerous interviews with people who knew Barea. It revisits Barea's writing qualities and deficiencies in the context of stimulating intersections of literature and politics, and of Spain and England. Num Pages: 244 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192884
ISBN
9781845192884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.25

Hardcover. The Trivium are the three Liberal Arts pertaining to language: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of perfecting a speaker and their speech. Also included in this compendium of seven Wooden Books are studies of Euphonics, Poetic Meter and Form, Ethics, and Proverbs. Series: Wooden Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907155185
ISBN
9781907155185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.22

Paperback. Editor(s): Muir, Kenneth. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536535
ISBN
9780199536535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393927559
ISBN
9780393927559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.21

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
€ 18.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312221768
ISBN
9780312221768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.46

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

€ 38.32

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

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Hardcover. Editor(s): Mills, Robert; Campbell, Emma. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2004th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403963437
ISBN
9781403963437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.92

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

€ 27.99
€ 22.66

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

€ 209.57

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

€ 34.99
€ 25.48

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

€ 109.98

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

€ 86.52

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
€ 77.43

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

€ 37.99
€ 29.15

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

€ 135.88

hardcover. Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, this book shows how African-American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
169
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239213
ISBN
9780312239213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.03

Paperback. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England. Editor(s): Schurink, F. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349322794
ISBN
9781349322794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.72

Hardcover. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England. Editor(s): Schurink, Fred. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; CFP; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230271807
ISBN
9780230271807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.87

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