Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language. Translator(s): Brault, Pascale-Anne. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269518
- ISBN
- 9780823269518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Hardback. Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language. Translator(s): Brault, Pascale-Anne. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269501
- ISBN
- 9780823269501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.07
€ 91.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473896
- ISBN
- 9781611473896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.11
€ 137.11
hardcover. This collection presents the best of George Bernard Shaw's witticisms and other turns-of-phrase. It surveys Shaw's passion for politics, the arts, and life in general. Editor(s): Dukore, Bernard F. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB; DQ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104784
- ISBN
- 9780231104784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.94
€ 56.94
Hardback. Highlights references to nineteenth-century US slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen. In this book, each text explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823231478
- ISBN
- 9780823231478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.35
€ 60.35
Hardcover. This text investigates a transitional moment in the history of US women's writing - the uneasy shift from the 19th century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. It shows how the complexities of literary and social politics shaped the world of Wharton, Cather, and Gale. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312229214
- ISBN
- 9780312229214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062394620
- ISBN
- 9780062394620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.94
€ 17.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 118 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936756677
- ISBN
- 9780936756677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.09
€ 18.99
€ 16.09
paperback. This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1995
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333639269
- ISBN
- 9780333639269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.13
€ 94.13
Paperback. Contains the author's essays that are personal on the surface, and stresses upon what impresses her in really good literature. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780803263314
- ISBN
- 9780803263314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
€ 18.99
€ 18.76
Hardback. Presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. This volume surveys the novelists, whose works are included in core curricula of high school and undergraduate literature studies. Num Pages: 1536 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSR; GBC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 184 x 140. Weight in Grams: 2910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Salem Press Inc
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587653933
- ISBN
- 9781587653933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 351.66
€ 351.66
Paperback. The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz's acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 272 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393976120
- ISBN
- 9780393976120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Hardcover. Editor(s): Collister, Peter. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 44. Weight in Grams: 970.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Critical ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930831
- ISBN
- 9780813930831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.82
€ 118.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Collister, Peter. Num Pages: 592 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930848
- ISBN
- 9780813930848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.78
€ 43.99
€ 43.78
Hardback. Editor(s): English, Karen Ann. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473490
- ISBN
- 9781611473490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.05
€ 146.05
Paperback. Now back in print with a new preface and two new essays--the essential guide and companion to Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the Old West that has been compared to the work of Dante, Homer, Melville, and Faulkner. Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292718210
- ISBN
- 9780292718210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.75
€ 27.75
Hardback. Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. This book offers a reflection on the work, influence, and personality of Sontag. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 21. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135700
- ISBN
- 9780691135700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholsen, Shierry Weber. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 372 pages. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight: 522. Translator(s): Nicholsen, Shierry Weber.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 372
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231069137
- ISBN
- 9780231069137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231063326
- ISBN
- 9780231063326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.45€ 83.75
€ 109.45
€ 83.75
Paperback. The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231063333
- ISBN
- 9780231063333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardback. This text looks at Euripides' "Hippolytus" and offers an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suugests a possible reading of Euripides' first treatment of the myth which would account for The Athenian audience's reservations about his "Hippoytus Veiled". Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; AN; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847690923
- ISBN
- 9780847690923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.64
€ 170.64
Paperback. Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. Editor(s): Winkler, John J.; Zeitlin, Froma I. Num Pages: 440 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 175 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015255
- ISBN
- 9780691015255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.38€ 55.72
€ 71.38
€ 55.72
Hardback. Using a unique four-dimensional lens to frame questions of diaspora in the writings of women from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Mehta expands notions of Caribbean identity. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618817
- ISBN
- 9780230618817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507259
- ISBN
- 9781137507259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84