Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Ever since "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. This book examines and celebrates the most famous and best-loved of these dazzling fictional creations and their wider impact on British culture as a whole. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- V9781846079603
- ISBN
- 9781846079603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.87
€ 21.99
€ 16.87
Hardback. How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734134
- ISBN
- 9780804734134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.38
€ 140.38
Paperback. Translator(s): Constantine, David. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449013
- ISBN
- 9780140449013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300189698
- ISBN
- 9780300189698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.36
€ 23.99
€ 17.36
Hardback. Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot, the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729345
- ISBN
- 9780804729345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.48
€ 156.48
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Pastuchiv, Olga. Num Pages: 352 pages, 194 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; DC; DSC; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252081095
- ISBN
- 9780252081095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. A Student Edition of Brecht's series of inter-connected playlets that describes events which took place in German households under the rise of the Nazis. The text of the play is accompanied by an extensive commentary and study notes. Editor(s): Ryland, Charlotte. Translator(s): Willett, John. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408100080
- ISBN
- 9781408100080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.39
€ 15.99
€ 14.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JJ; ACXD; DSC; DSK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595580566
- ISBN
- 9781595580566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.46
€ 30.99
€ 28.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; JFCX; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226735542
- ISBN
- 9780226735542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.81
€ 37.99
€ 29.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 73 color plates. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424358
- ISBN
- 9780857424358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.99
€ 33.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812211290
- ISBN
- 9780812211290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature, examining what underlies the stereotype about the destructive power of romantic love and why Russian writers so willingly employ this cliche. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988962
- ISBN
- 9780295988962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.22
€ 39.22
Paperback. Examines one of the Spanish language's most resonant voices. This book explores how the very factors which led to the emergence of Federico Garcia Lorca as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output. Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415362436
- ISBN
- 9780415362436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.54
€ 44.54
Hardback. Feeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482805
- ISBN
- 9781611482805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.47
€ 145.47
Hardback. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930619
- ISBN
- 9780813930619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.86
€ 72.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493351
- ISBN
- 9781611493351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.11
€ 138.11
Paperback. Shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. This work investigates three problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691094922
- ISBN
- 9780691094922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.58€ 42.10
€ 53.58
€ 42.10
Paperback. A collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. Editor(s): Abel, Elizabeth; Christian, Barbara; Moglen, Helene. Num Pages: 425 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206304
- ISBN
- 9780520206304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.21
€ 41.99
€ 30.21
Hardback. This volume studies Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men. The author examines classical novels by female authors in relation to each other and to developments in the emerging British women's movement. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917726
- ISBN
- 9780813917726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.89
€ 79.89
Hardcover. Between 1585 and 1631, the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega wrote numerous plays dealing with the theme of conjugal honor. Drawing on recent feminist theories and touching on literary, social, and anthropological aspects, Yarbro-Bejarano (Spanish, Stanford U.) demonstrates that hierarchical relations Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557530448
- ISBN
- 9781557530448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.38
€ 46.38