Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. A history of imaginary worlds from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the virtual worlds of computer games. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195343175
- ISBN
- 9780195343175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.45
€ 70.45
Hardback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 1 maps, 3 recorded music items. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BBA; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173629
- ISBN
- 9780231173629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43€ 50.75
€ 64.43
€ 50.75
Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 120. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628922868
- ISBN
- 9781628922868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.74
€ 13.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231170093
- ISBN
- 9780231170093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50
Paperback. Spend some time with the wisest poets of our age and the past to discover your spiritual potential. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782793700
- ISBN
- 9781782793700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma S.; Smail, Daniel Lord. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBG; HBLC; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488573
- ISBN
- 9780801488573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896300702
- ISBN
- 9781896300702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.65
€ 35.99
€ 24.65
Paperback. Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on Utopian genre, the book offers an in- depth account of which the most creative writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative worlds in which surveillance in various forms plays a key concern. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: APF; DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474426558
- ISBN
- 9781474426558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This Very Short Introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568727
- ISBN
- 9780199568727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.64
€ 13.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704850
- ISBN
- 9780198704850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. David Wootton's scalpel-sharp translation of "Candide" features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide's travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite. Translator(s): Wootton, David. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 8.2.2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205468
- ISBN
- 9780872205468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.77
€ 14.99
€ 12.77
Hardcover. American Errancy is a wide-ranging study of the connection between ideology and the sublime in the work of twentieth-century poets, all American with two, or perhaps three important exceptions. The poets studied include, Allen Ginsberg, A.R. Ammons, Emerson, Eliot, Hill and many more. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558354
- ISBN
- 9781904558354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.06€ 51.72
€ 55.06
€ 51.72
Paperback. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. A New Translation with Commentary. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 286 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DC; DSC. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight: 458. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135438
- ISBN
- 9781571135438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.19
€ 36.99
€ 36.19
Hardback. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198140597
- ISBN
- 9780198140597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.86
€ 199.86
Paperback. "In association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." Editor(s): Balfour, Robert J. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319558
- ISBN
- 9781349319558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Features a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Some songs included in this work have familiar themes, while others illuminate the complexities and differences of the Native cultures. Editor(s): Swann, Brian. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSC; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 11. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803293403
- ISBN
- 9780803293403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.76
€ 21.99
€ 21.76
Paperback. What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349323913
- ISBN
- 9781349323913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers' attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the shattering violence and alienation of total war and an overpowering official war culture. Num Pages: 342 pages, 12 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198715580
- ISBN
- 9780198715580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.34
€ 82.34
Paperback. Acclaimed poet explores the West's violent collision with the Arab world. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Coach House Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552452547
- ISBN
- 9781552452547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 7.94
€ 16.99
€ 7.94
Paperback. A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in The Prelude. Editor(s): Wu, Duncan. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857546392
- ISBN
- 9781857546392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349383405
- ISBN
- 9781349383405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493351
- ISBN
- 9781611493351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.19
€ 138.19
Paperback. Series: MIP Teams Secular Commentary Series. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1379.
- Publisher
- The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid´s Metamorphoses: Book 1 United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580442022
- ISBN
- 9781580442022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.25
€ 48.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; GTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138200425
- ISBN
- 9781138200425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.05€ 36.83
€ 55.05
€ 36.83