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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169967
ISBN
9780231169967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473223
ISBN
9781611473223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.66

Paperback. Presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. This book examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415402736
ISBN
9780415402736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.50

Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892258
ISBN
9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
LIT Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825872557
ISBN
9783825872557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating the impact of new conditions such as the digital revolution, climate change and an ageing population on our world. Editor(s): Groes, Sebastian. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137520579
ISBN
9781137520579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.07

Hardcover. Editor(s): Frawley, Oona; O'Callaghan, Katherine. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633525
ISBN
9780815633525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.55

Paperback. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, this book revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226781709
ISBN
9780226781709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Hardback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770491
ISBN
9780804770491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Paperback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770507
ISBN
9780804770507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Num Pages: 141 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; AJC; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
SKU
V9780946487929
ISBN
9780946487929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBD; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110426
ISBN
9780231110426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 136.12

Paperback. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691115269
ISBN
9780691115269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688331
ISBN
9780856688331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.26

paperback. "A Menorah for Athena" is an extended treatment of Charles Reznikoff's work, in it Stephen Fredman illuminates the relationship of Jewish intellectuals to modernity through a close look at Reznikoff's life and writing. Num Pages: 204 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226261393
ISBN
9780226261393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 217 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290. . Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KEX0236105
ISBN
9781908836120
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 217 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KAK0002152
ISBN
9781908836120
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The No Fear Shakespeare series contains a complete edition of a Shakespeare play on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an accessible, modern English translation on the right. Series: NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 191 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
Edition
Study Guide ed.
Publisher
SPARKNOTES
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586638504
ISBN
9781586638504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.93

Hardcover. The novelist Meredith is renowned for his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. This work examines Meredith's novels in the light of 20th-century literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 473.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333675946
ISBN
9780333675946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Paperback. Aims to establish a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through the figure of Merlin, links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ADF; 3H; DQ; DSBB; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859917797
ISBN
9780859917797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

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