Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's "Black Boy" to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, this work examines the second half of the 20th century to assess the challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. Series: Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322407
- ISBN
- 9780820322407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.36
€ 52.36
Paperback. Presenting an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective, this book focuses on narrative texts from a boy labelled as 'sexually abusive', analyzed from micro to global levels. The book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: DSA; JHBC; JMB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230595408
- ISBN
- 9780230595408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. A key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays. Editor(s): Newman, Kathleen M.; Pratt, Mary Louise. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 925.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322481
- ISBN
- 9780822322481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.67
€ 35.99
€ 34.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Smallwood, Philip. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482171
- ISBN
- 9781611482171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 108.65
€ 108.65
Paperback. In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JNA; JNF; JNKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457465
- ISBN
- 9781349457465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.27
€ 54.99
€ 43.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham; Watson, Stephen. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349243136
- ISBN
- 9781349243136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Hardback. These essays on J.M. Coetzee adopt a variety of approaches to his work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's "oeuvre", as well as essays that analyze in more detail individual novels. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham; Watson, Stephen. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333569122
- ISBN
- 9780333569122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Paperback. This book finds a way through often impenetrable recent theories, exploring key concepts of ideology, subjectivity and representation in the various forms put forward by different 'schools' of theorists. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 176 pages, further reading; notes; references; index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415280068
- ISBN
- 9780415280068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Hardback. Featuring the interplay of fictions and "the real world," these 12 essays explore and expand ideas of what fictions and reality might be. They for the most part concern themselves with aspects, examples, and problems of the novel as the principal form of fiction. Editor(s): Polhemus, Robert M.; Henkle, Roger B. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps,facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722438
- ISBN
- 9780804722438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.78
€ 98.78
Paperback. Features a satire on the moral failure of the "Jazz Age". This book explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Stg
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140771978
- ISBN
- 9780140771978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.31
€ 10.99
€ 9.31
Paperback. The bookpresents the transition from traditionalism to modernism in connection to two of Kung's most important books on ecclesiology: Structures of the Church (1962) as representing Kung's traditional theology, and On Being a Christian (1974) as a reflection of his modern approach to Christianity." Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HRAM; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372881
- ISBN
- 9781349372881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862. 480 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight: 762.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226472034
- ISBN
- 9780226472034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.29
€ 34.99
€ 27.29
Paperback. Series: Routledge Key Guides. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415695657
- ISBN
- 9780415695657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.64
€ 40.99
€ 38.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226065557
- ISBN
- 9780226065557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.25
€ 52.99
€ 40.25
Paperback. Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491575
- ISBN
- 9781349491575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
Hardcover. Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428769
- ISBN
- 9781137428769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
hardcover. A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and political pressures affecting the ways they worked. Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; HRAX. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198716099
- ISBN
- 9780198716099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.56
€ 160.56
Paperback. Presents an anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a range of texts - both old and new - that draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. Editor(s): Calderon, Hector; Saldivar, Jose David. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822311430
- ISBN
- 9780822311430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. The next introduction in the IDEAS IN PROFILE series: a snappy but serious introduction to criticism Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 176 pages, Black and white reproductions of paintings, a few photographs. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781254509
- ISBN
- 9781781254509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Hardback. The earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Book of Poems, has served as an ideal of literary perfection and also a major subject of literary criticism since imperial times. Rusk unravels the competitive, mutually influential relationship through which classical and literary scholarship on the poems co-evolved from the Han dynasty to the Qing. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 325
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067011
- ISBN
- 9780674067011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.53
€ 45.99
€ 37.53