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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. This book provides an engaging and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Num Pages: 152 pages, 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 662. 152 pages, 70 colour illustrations. From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. This book provides an engaging and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 211 x 210 x 17. Weight: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242955
ISBN
9781851242955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.40

Paperback. Series: African Literature Today. 173 pages, 17, 17 black and white. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; 2H; DSBH; JNU. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 12. Weight: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Currey
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847015112
ISBN
9781847015112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847015105
ISBN
9781847015105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

Hardback. Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Series: African Articulations. Num Pages: 233 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; DSBH5; HBJH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011275
ISBN
9781847011275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.12

Paperback. The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. Editor(s): Jones, Eldred Durosimi. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 251 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011237
ISBN
9781847011237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.57

Paperback. The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. Editor(s): Jones, Eldred Durosimi. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 175 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011206
ISBN
9781847011206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. Editor(s): Jones, Eldred Durosimi. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 195.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011183
ISBN
9781847011183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
James Currey
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010971
ISBN
9781847010971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010810
ISBN
9781847010810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of Western cultural icons in contemporary postcolonial cultures. Editor(s): Banham, Martin. Series: African Theatre. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 7 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 7 black and white, 1 lin. BIC Classification: 1HF; 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010803
ISBN
9781847010803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010704
ISBN
9781847010704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1, 1 black and white. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. 208 pages, 1, 1 black and white. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant. Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 2AB; DSBH5. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 15. Weight: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010629
ISBN
9781847010629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010131
ISBN
9781847010131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846946684
ISBN
9781846946684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.46

Hardcover. The first literary geography of the Putumayo, exploring its history and enduring significance through literature of and on this Colombian region by Latin American, US and European writers. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 262 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DSBH5; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319747
ISBN
9781846319747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.46

Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319723
ISBN
9781846319723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.12

Hardcover. This important new work explores the symbolic geographies found within modern black fiction and identifies a significant set of relations between these geographies and communal affiliations, identity politics, and understandings of a diasporic past. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319549
ISBN
9781846319549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.24

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318610
ISBN
9781846318610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.83

Hardcover. A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318436
ISBN
9781846318436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Paperback. Focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. This title explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this crisis, ranging from the death of John W Campbell Jr, to the start of the science magazine "Omni", and the first dreams of the internet. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846310034
ISBN
9781846310034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.22

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197421
ISBN
9781845197421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197100
ISBN
9781845197100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196738
ISBN
9781845196738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.31

Hardcover. "First published in 2015 in Great Britain by SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS" -- Verso title page. Num Pages: 160 pages, 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; APFB; DSBH; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196639
ISBN
9781845196639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.51

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