Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This volume demonstrates the importance of Slavoj Zizek's work to literary criticism and theory by showing how his practice of reading theory and literature can be used in numerous theoretical frameworks and applied to literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres, creating new interpretations of familiar works. Editor(s): Sbriglia, Russell. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363187
- ISBN
- 9780822363187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardback. This volume demonstrates the importance of Slavoj Zizek's work to literary criticism and theory by showing how his practice of reading theory and literature can be used in numerous theoretical frameworks and applied to literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres, creating new interpretations of familiar works. Editor(s): Sbriglia, Russell. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363033
- ISBN
- 9780822363033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. A revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" or "creativity". Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854597120
- ISBN
- 9781854597120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.50
€ 16.99
€ 12.50
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783898219785
- ISBN
- 9783898219785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.93
€ 31.99
€ 22.93
Hardback. Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691090283
- ISBN
- 9780691090283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.74€ 105.41
€ 139.74
€ 105.41
Hardback. Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange - and empire building - extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644694
- ISBN
- 9781442644694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.30
€ 70.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 268 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501305641
- ISBN
- 9781501305641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.56
€ 47.56
hardcover. Exemplarity and Mediocrity explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758901
- ISBN
- 9780804758901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.27
€ 81.27
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632148
- ISBN
- 9780691632148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.47
€ 163.47
hardcover. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- information as material
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781907468087
- ISBN
- 9781907468087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.97
€ 19.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. Examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of 'primary documents' within their pages. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928661
- ISBN
- 9780813928661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.93
€ 33.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; CFC; CFK; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Baraka Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771860383
- ISBN
- 9781771860383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.76
€ 20.99
€ 18.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813118888
- ISBN
- 9780813118888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.67
€ 46.67
Hardback. This text examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition, from the archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. The author argues that the hero's reputation, his glory, is managed by women - especially his wife and mother. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2AHM; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847687510
- ISBN
- 9780847687510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.35
€ 130.35
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662575
- ISBN
- 9781855662575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.42
€ 98.42
The only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HPCF3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870378
- ISBN
- 9780801870378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.93
€ 64.93
Paperback. A collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dos-toevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov. It offers novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolito and "The Idiot" to "Doctor Zhivago". Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843406
- ISBN
- 9781934843406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.75
€ 137.75
paperback. Explores the author's relationship with his father. This title also reflects on the life and legacy of the author's cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's prolific serial murderers. Num Pages: 416 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285823
- ISBN
- 9780099285823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758604
- ISBN
- 9780804758604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. Translator(s): McEwen, Alastair. Series: Emilio Goggio Publications Series. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802096142
- ISBN
- 9780802096142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.45
€ 30.99
€ 27.45