Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that "absurd" plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378767
- ISBN
- 9781137378767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.44€ 47.84
€ 56.44
€ 47.84
Paperback. A play that features no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. Full of passion, pathos and sly humour, it is set in the hip art scene of London's East End. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571302918
- ISBN
- 9780571302918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.04
€ 23.99
€ 16.04
Hardback. Rebecca West Today, the first-ever collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological approaches, ranging from historicism to gender studies, textual analyses, and philosophical engagements. The book also contains a useful section on teaching the works of Rebecca West. Editor(s): Schweizer, Bernard. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492965
- ISBN
- 9781611492965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.03
€ 150.03
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350028418
- ISBN
- 9781350028418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 29.44
€ 48.99
€ 29.44
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099373
- ISBN
- 9780719099373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11
€ 104.11
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413775504
- ISBN
- 9780413775504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 54.65
€ 59.42
€ 54.65
Hardback. This book is a comparative approach that treats the formidable psychosexual and gothic content, as phrased through a rhetoric of rebellion, death, and illness, in the works of Ugo Tarchetti and others. Del PrincipeOs psychoanalytic-feminist reinterpretation illuminates the scapigliati as precursors to modernism and the avant-garde. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471274
- ISBN
- 9781611471274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.59
€ 110.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916727987
- ISBN
- 9780916727987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.22
€ 22.22
Paperback. "ReCalling Early Canada" is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. Editor(s): Blair, Jennifer; Coleman, Daniel; Higginson, Kate; York, Lorraine M. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644435
- ISBN
- 9780888644435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. "Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822]", known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century CE. This title contains high-resolution images of the manuscript. Editor(s): Due, Casey. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032026
- ISBN
- 9780674032026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.05€ 63.30
€ 70.05
€ 63.30
Hardback. An examination of Sophocles' "Antigone" in the context of its setting in 5th-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of 5th-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692163
- ISBN
- 9780847692163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.11
€ 176.11
Paperback. This work considers key aspects of Greek and Roman culture and discusses how they have been reshaped and used in modern drama, film and poetry. Series: New Surveys in the Classics S. Num Pages: 134 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; APFA; DSBB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxf.U.P. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198528654
- ISBN
- 9780198528654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.01
€ 38.01
paperback. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians. Editor(s): Machor, James L.; Goldstein, Philip. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415926508
- ISBN
- 9780415926508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463775
- ISBN
- 9781580463775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.78
€ 37.99
€ 31.78
Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322025
- ISBN
- 9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.76
€ 60.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 39. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456701
- ISBN
- 9780801456701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.39
€ 40.99
€ 36.39
Hardback. "Reclaiming Authorship augments our knowledge of the female literary tradition and enriches our grasp of the process by which women authors sought public status in a publishing marketplace. It challenges basic tenets of the origins of realism and posits a definable historical transition from the romantic to the realist."-Cecelia Tichi Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239423
- ISBN
- 9780812239423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Paperback. Examines the novels of four Caribbean women writers who have radically reformulated the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies represents difference. This book represents a phase in postcolonial studies that calls for a fundamental rethinking of the terminology and assumptions. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923475
- ISBN
- 9780813923475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480771
- ISBN
- 9781611480771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.74
€ 110.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312246
- ISBN
- 9780822312246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Paperback. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of GCGBPbibliomigrancy,GC[yen] Mani narrates how world Num Pages: 360 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; GLC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 2. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273416
- ISBN
- 9780823273416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.49
€ 40.49
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Ringrose, Chris. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HPQ. Dimension: 152 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838208473
- ISBN
- 9783838208473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.60
€ 34.99
€ 25.60
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- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474413725
- ISBN
- 9781474413725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 141.60
€ 141.60
Paperback. The British Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books it has been ignored or dismissed by later readers and critics. This title challenges us to rethink our ideas of the novel as a genre, as well as our long-held assumptions about the literary movement of Romanticism. Editor(s): Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian; Sussman, Charlotte. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846315022
- ISBN
- 9781846315022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.01
€ 54.01