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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Num Pages: 340 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226074276
ISBN
9780226074276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801451577
ISBN
9780801451577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252062537
ISBN
9780252062537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.71

Hardcover. An introduction to contemporary Latin American narrative published in the 1970s, presenting ten major writers. Num Pages: 168 pages, Plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810813595
ISBN
9780810813595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.28

Hardcover. An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139092
ISBN
9781571139092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.27

Paperback. Includes Scandinavian contributions to two conferences convened by The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003, and at the Research Center on European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany, in 2005. Num Pages: 198 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776742706
ISBN
9788776742706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Pocket Essentials
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842439876
ISBN
9781842439876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.84

Hardback. In Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer's World, Reed chronicles her discovery that, although Mazer's husband and his work are thoroughly intertwined with and complimentary to her own, the author "is fiercely independent-a feminist." Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810838147
ISBN
9780810838147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.46

Hardback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780064902847
ISBN
9780064902847
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.03

Hardback. No descriptive material is available for this title. Num Pages: 244 pages, Plans transparencies :Bibliography: p.187-212. - Includes index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810811607
ISBN
9780810811607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Paperback. 'Ulysses' was not brought to the screen until 1967. Norris discusses the challenges that this difficult novel of the 20th century posed to the filmmaker along with the production and censorship problems that arose before the film was released to great contemporary critical acclaim. Editor(s): Norris, Margot. Series: Ireland into film. Num Pages: 102 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 186 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 156.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
102
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859182932
ISBN
9781859182932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Hardback. Collects essays by contemporary North American romance authors, each with her own 'take' on the romance novel today. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810836044
ISBN
9780810836044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.11

Paperback. A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell's place in the company of Victorian England's finest novelists. Editor(s): Shelston, Alan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393979084
ISBN
9780393979084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.22

Hardcover. One of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. Series: Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. Num Pages: 624 pages, plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192547057
ISBN
9780192547057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.26

Paperback. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 291 x 211 x 7. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447948858
ISBN
9781447948858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.30

Paperback. An exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. It guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. It helps readers gain fresh perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman. Num Pages: 544 pages, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JH; 3JJ; AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148243
ISBN
9780691148243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.49

Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349444632
ISBN
9781349444632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.10

paperback. Challenging the dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Cotrupi explores the implications of his proposition that the history of criticism may be seen as having two main approaches?literature as "product" and literature as "process." Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 255.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802081414
ISBN
9780802081414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.47

hardcover. Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism. Editor(s): Gorjup, Branko. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099389
ISBN
9780802099389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.80

hardcover. These miscellaneous writings offer further evidence of Frye's fertile mind, quick wit, expansive imagination, and eloquence. Editor(s): Denham, Robert D.; Dolzani, Michael. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802093028
ISBN
9780802093028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.47

Paperback. This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time. Editor(s): Denham, Robert D. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 37. Weight in Grams: 992.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626867
ISBN
9781442626867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.09

Hardcover. There is a preoccupation with religion in the work of Northrop Frye. This book shows that it played a greater role than assumed - religion was central to practically everything Frye wrote. It focuses on the works with which Frye began and ended his career - "Fearful Symmetry" and, 50 years on, his two studies of the Bible and "The Double Vision". Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922997
ISBN
9780813922997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.62

Paperback. Discusses the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical Theory. This book addresses more practical issues related to critical theory. It looks at elements in Benjamin's aesthetics and then in Adorno. Editor(s): Ludovisi, Stefano Giacchetti. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874130720
ISBN
9780874130720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.37

Hardcover. Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. This book traces the development of nostalgia from a memory disorder in the eighteenth century to its modern formulation as a pleasant recreational distraction. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925981
ISBN
9780813925981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.88

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