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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780934426
ISBN
9781780934426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644544
ISBN
9780816644544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.43

Hardback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DS; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479885688
ISBN
9781479885688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.94

Paperback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DS; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479847662
ISBN
9781479847662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.15

Hardback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823272891
ISBN
9780823272891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.50

Paperback. Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272907
ISBN
9780823272907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

paperback. Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221087
ISBN
9780253221087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, this work sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. Assured in its rhymes and cadences, it is often attentive to poetry in other tongues, not least Gaelic. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224080873
ISBN
9780224080873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Tracing an ambivalence toward pleasure from the early modern to the modern era, McEleney shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for t Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272662
ISBN
9780823272662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. Tracing an ambivalence toward pleasure from the early modern to the modern era, McEleney shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for t Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272655
ISBN
9780823272655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.34

Paperback. Philip K Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. This book examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources. Num Pages: 5 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218604
ISBN
9780803218604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.88

Paperback. Robert Bird traces Fyodor Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. The author describes how Dostoevsky's difficult background contributed to his highly acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867) and The Brothers Karamazov. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861899002
ISBN
9781861899002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life. Num Pages: 784 pages, 17 black and white images. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1158.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199655762
ISBN
9780199655762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 191 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412312
ISBN
9780821412312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137513366
ISBN
9781137513366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.91

Paperback. When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, before and after, that is, that warring spirit of the age which keeps nations in fighting mode? This book explores these questions. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Pap/DVD Bl
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748668724
ISBN
9780748668724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.77

Hardcover. This volume contains a survey of prose writing - novels, plays, journalism - produced in Ireland between 1922 and 1939. All quotations are given in English with original Irish in notes. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AFR; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558132
ISBN
9781904558132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.73
€ 78.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Parsons, Mikeal; Talbert, Charles; Longenecker, Bruce. Series: Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801032752
ISBN
9780801032752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.41

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691614885
ISBN
9780691614885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.98
€ 55.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HBG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119249429
ISBN
9781119249429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.46

Paperback. Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, a Peruvian mestizo and historian, envisioned Latin America as a multiethnic continent and advanced a humanist interpretation of New World history. In this collection of articles, central aspects of Garcilaso's life and work are reviewed. Editor(s): Anadon, Jose. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; BGH; DSBD; HBAH; HBJK; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268010379
ISBN
9780268010379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. This book offers an examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. It shows how the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226317908
ISBN
9780226317908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509812356
ISBN
9781509812356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.88

Hardcover. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004410
ISBN
9781900621663
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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