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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Editor(s): Picchietti, Virginia; Salsini, Laura A. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 278 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319408347
ISBN
9783319408347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardback. The first full-length study of the poetry of Wen Tingyun (ca. 812-ca. 866), a major writer of the late Tang, this book contains translations of more than 60 of Wen's poems, most of which appear in English for the first time. It also examines the world of other poets in his milieu. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721653
ISBN
9780804721653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.71

Hardcover. From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137485717
ISBN
9781137485717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.47

Hardback. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407401
ISBN
9781421407401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.21
€ 59.06

Hardback. .
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498531016
ISBN
9781498531016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.75
€ 34.31

Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; HRH; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087400
ISBN
9780719087400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967572
ISBN
9781403967572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349294657
ISBN
9781349294657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.42

Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-fashioning. Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century. 252 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112711
ISBN
9780230112711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Paperback. Uncovers the connections between the Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of the 1930s, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and James T. Farrell, all of whom integrated sociological theories into their own work. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231081290
ISBN
9780231081290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. An examination of what it means for various groups of Chinese to claim their "Chineseness." Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSA; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349532902
ISBN
9781349532902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403971296
ISBN
9781403971296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

paperback. By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2011
SKU
V9781349298600
ISBN
9781349298600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 212 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120419
ISBN
9780230120419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

paperback. This book asks why Bronte, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture." Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2012
SKU
V9781349435210
ISBN
9781349435210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardcover. This book asks why Bronte, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137007025
ISBN
9781137007025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. In this bold intervention into the understanding of the diasporic experience within cultural studies, McCarthy challenges a critical position emergent over the last thirty years (what he calls the 'new marginalism'). He confronts the liberal orthodoxies that prevail in this area, exposing contradictions in the thinking of its major theorists. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218871
ISBN
9780230218871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

paperback. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2013
SKU
V9781349451678
ISBN
9781349451678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137294913
ISBN
9781137294913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. "A remarkable analysis of an important medieval text.. This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the shaping of medieval understanding."-Sixteenth Century Journal Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSB; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812233438
ISBN
9780812233438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.97
€ 44.73

Hardback. Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages. Editor(s): Conti, Aidan; Da Rold, Orietta; Shaw, Philip. Series: Essays and Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844150
ISBN
9781843844150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.86

Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022396
ISBN
9780268022396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319471778
ISBN
9783319471778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719083242
ISBN
9780719083242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

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