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Hardcover. Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This title explores the term 'Afromodernisms' and the study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. It sets an agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. Editor(s): Sweeney, Fionnghuala; Marsh, Kate. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646401
ISBN
9780748646401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.35

Hardback. The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-Choice Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236026
ISBN
9780812236026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Paperback. What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. Second, there is the question of history. Here, a third meaning to the phrase "after Blanchot" comes into view. Editor(s): Hill, Leslie; Nelson, Brian; Vardoulakis, Dimitris. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
277
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139464
ISBN
9780874139464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.89

Hardback. The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480627
ISBN
9781611480627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.56

Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226304755
ISBN
9780226304755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.51

paperback. Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. Series: Facing Pages. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127798
ISBN
9780691127798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.19

Hardback. A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
SKU
KOG0000398
ISBN
9781786693228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501707575
ISBN
9781501707575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.07

Paperback. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known to Anglophone readers as the author of A Hero of Our Time, whereas among Russian readers his poetry is equally cherished. Lermontov was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates his bicentenary with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish. Editor(s): France, Peter; Marsack, Robyn. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847772756
ISBN
9781847772756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 1KBB; 3JM; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174008
ISBN
9780231174008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

Paperback. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. Editor(s): Yitah, Helen. Series: African Poetry Book Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803296947
ISBN
9780803296947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313427
ISBN
9780822313427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816629336
ISBN
9780816629336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.93

Paperback. Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a self-destructive star - a singer everyone wanted a piece of. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189994
ISBN
9780141189994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Hardcover. * Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis * Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma * Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere * Places U.S. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470657928
ISBN
9780470657928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.55

Hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813217895
ISBN
9780813217895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491821
ISBN
9781611491821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.76

Hardback. .
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
261
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480887
ISBN
9781611480887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.60

Paperback. Editor(s): Dickel, Simon. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; AB; DSBH; JFCA; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837628937
ISBN
9783837628937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.28

Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220768
ISBN
9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.98

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