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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267811
ISBN
9780823267811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.74

Paperback. This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DS; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267828
ISBN
9780823267828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Hardback. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction weaves a fascinating narrative full of colourful characters by examining the prose of today's leading writers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGU; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643321
ISBN
9781442643321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, 461 colour & 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 888.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837626728
ISBN
9783837626728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.33
€ 57.29

Paperback. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed. Editor(s): Costanzo, Angelo. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112626
ISBN
9781551112626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00
€ 18.53

Paperback. This collection of original critical essays, newly available in paperback, launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history. Editor(s): Bluemel, Kristin. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410. Literary Culture in Mid-twentieth-century Britain. 264 pages. Editor(s): Bluemel, Kristin. This collection of original critical essays, newly available in paperback, launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 16. Weight: 410.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642854
ISBN
9780748642854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651309
ISBN
9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.47

Hardcover. Daniel Cottom traces the vagabond word "bohemia" as it migrated across national borders over the course of the nineteenth century-from France to the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany-and how it was transformed, contested, or rejected along the way. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244885
ISBN
9780812244885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Hardback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160827
ISBN
9780231160827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.23

Paperback. Series: William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268036096
ISBN
9780268036096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.30

Hardcover. This volume of essays, arising from lectures given at the Synge Summer School, sets about the task of interpreting Synge, his relation to cultural and theatrical contexts, the significance of his plays, the quality of his language and the thematic matrices of his work. Editor(s): Grene, Nicholas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901866476
ISBN
9781901866476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.00
€ 17.10

Paperback. Highlights the long history of African American-Asian American relations Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814752562
ISBN
9780814752562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. .
Publisher
Steve Savage Publishers Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904246329
ISBN
9781904246329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570372
ISBN
9780813570372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.10

Paperback. This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change. Editor(s): Majaj, Lisa Suhair; Sunderman, Paula; Saliba, Therese. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DN; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629764
ISBN
9780815629764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.29

Paperback. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745631219
ISBN
9780745631219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.19

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816643813
ISBN
9780816643813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
ATF Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921511790
ISBN
9781921511790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.77

Paperback. A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers-Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes-affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBTV; JFC; JMAF; JPWF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114158
ISBN
9780231114158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823250974
ISBN
9780823250974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604541
ISBN
9780691604541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. This revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; AVA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 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
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226472539
ISBN
9780226472539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.79

Hardcover. Explores "Chronicles of Narnia", offering a look at the stories themselves and also focusing on the intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. This title presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe - each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of vitality, beauty, and clarity. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787978907
ISBN
9780787978907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Translator(s): Armstrong, Philip. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 72 pages, 9 color illustrations, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267736
ISBN
9780823267736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.65

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