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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474413725
ISBN
9781474413725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814341407
ISBN
9780814341407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.32

Hardback. A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world. Editor(s): Cox, Elizabeth; McAvoy, Liz Herbert; Magnani, Roberta. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 215 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844037
ISBN
9781843844037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marias to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically Editor(s): Vaessens, Thomas; Dijk, Yra van. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
V9789089643698
ISBN
9789089643698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.81

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198186328
ISBN
9780198186328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 264.01

Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays that collectively seek to re-vision the Beats from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293796
ISBN
9780312293796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.69

Hardback. offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro" and "The Three-Cornered World"; Ibuse Masuji's "Black Rain"; Mori Ogai's "Wild Geese"; and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's "Quicksand." Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674750944
ISBN
9780674750944
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322363
ISBN
9780940322363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.45

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