Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Reading and the Reader defends the value of reading serious literature, investigating the role of the reader in the human search for meaning outside as well as inside of books. Series: The Literary Agenda. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JNAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199683185
- ISBN
- 9780199683185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.36
€ 31.36
Hardback. An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843245
- ISBN
- 9781843843245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Spain
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788484896579
- ISBN
- 9788484896579
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.71
€ 31.99
€ 22.71
Paperback. Discusses how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, presented, and organized their texts. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 2CSR; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780292705456
- ISBN
- 9780292705456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.23
€ 27.23
Hardback. In Reading as the Angels Read, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the Banquet and offers a bold new reading of this ambitious work. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442637061
- ISBN
- 9781442637061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.66
€ 100.66
Paperback. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the 'mainstream' canon and other 'minority' literatures? This book explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015415
- ISBN
- 9780691015415
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Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.45
€ 52.92
€ 41.45
Paperback. This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761991878
- ISBN
- 9780761991878
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Condition: New
€ 57.99
€ 57.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473308
- ISBN
- 9781611473308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry. Editor(s): Batchelor, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249885
- ISBN
- 9781852249885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.88
€ 16.99
€ 12.88
Paperback. Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past. Num Pages: 536 pages, 215 illustrations (32 in color). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 199 x 47. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339625
- ISBN
- 9780822339625
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.51
€ 35.99
€ 34.51
Hardback. Wesley Kort's Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary is a captivating collection of essays on individual works by C. S. Lewis that separates itself from the opinions of his fans and critics by examining Lewis's life and work as a whole. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190221348
- ISBN
- 9780190221348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.00
€ 35.99
€ 26.00
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565440
- ISBN
- 9781137565440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.79€ 10.95
€ 58.79
€ 10.95
Hardback. The author is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 211 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230655
- ISBN
- 9780571230655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.27
€ 19.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. 'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one .. It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847085368
- ISBN
- 9781847085368
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.36
€ 14.99
€ 11.36
Paperback. Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Series: Duckworth Classical Essays. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715632796
- ISBN
- 9780715632796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.54
€ 33.99
€ 28.54
Paperback. A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. This title brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his unendingly works. Series: The Open Yale Courses. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191356
- ISBN
- 9780300191356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.95
€ 29.99
€ 21.95
Paperback. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631490064
- ISBN
- 9781631490064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.34
€ 19.99
€ 19.34
Hardback. Vittorio Montemaggi offers a detailed theological reading of Dante's Commedia, examining the theme of human interaction, both as it is represented in the poem-the narrator Dante's interaction with other characters-and by the relationship between author and reader. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 244 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190495466
- ISBN
- 9780190495466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.65
€ 154.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813101651
- ISBN
- 9780813101651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.88
€ 38.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486357
- ISBN
- 9780801486357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.53
€ 44.53
Paperback. Series: Mediaeval Cultures S. Num Pages: 296 pages, with 17 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816622474
- ISBN
- 9780816622474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.90
€ 36.99
€ 36.90
Paperback. Umberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. This anthology intends to examine his ideas of literary semiotics and interpretation as evidenced both in his scholarly work and in his fiction. Editor(s): Capozzi, Rocco; Eco, Umberto. Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 38. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253211163
- ISBN
- 9780253211163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardback. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. Series: Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153614
- ISBN
- 9781405153614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.98
€ 113.98
Paperback. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. Series: Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153621
- ISBN
- 9781405153621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.27
€ 51.27