Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme. Num Pages: 228 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; DSBH; HBJF1; HBW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815603771
- ISBN
- 9780815603771
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.40
€ 21.99
€ 21.40
Hardcover. Investigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity. Editor(s): Goodblatt, Chanita; Marotti, Arthur F. Num Pages: 416 pages, color Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814339558
- ISBN
- 9780814339558
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Paperback. Presenting an examination of feminist issues in the works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, this text discusses such topics as: obscure points in the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and the model nun in the religious literature of Colonial Mexico. Editor(s): Merrim, Stephanie. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814322161
- ISBN
- 9780814322161
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Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. In Volumen 3 of Las literaturas hisp?nicas: Introducci?n a su estudio, Evelyn Picon Garfield and Ivan A. Schulman include selections from more than forty Spanish American authors from the sixteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 661. Weight in Grams: 816.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814318652
- ISBN
- 9780814318652
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Condition: New
€ 56.03
€ 56.03
Paperback. William Burroughs is one of America's great writers. This book examines the major works Burroughs produced in the 1950s - "Junky", "Queer", "The Yage Letters", and "Naked Lunch" - to piece together a material record of his creative history during his germinal decade as a writer. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809327317
- ISBN
- 9780809327317
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.26
€ 44.99
€ 44.26
Paperback. This is a broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. The author theorizes that the serial killer genre results from a combination of earlier genre depictions of multiple murderers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809323296
- ISBN
- 9780809323296
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Condition: New
€ 58.50
€ 58.50
The Dark Matter of Words: Abscence, Unknowing, and Emptiness in Litera...
Professor Timothy Walsh Ph.D.
Hardcover. Timothy Walsh argues here that the use of absence in works of art - of silence, shadow, blankness and void - is a principal means by which the inherent biological limitations of human consciousness and of human language are encoded in aesthetic constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809321728
- ISBN
- 9780809321728
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Condition: New
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Paperback. This work contextualizes, and follows the migration of women's rhetorical accomplishments systematically. To locate these women, it follows the migration of the Western intellectual tradition from its inception and its ultimate appropriation by Christianity into the Church and politics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809321377
- ISBN
- 9780809321377
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.26
€ 44.99
€ 44.26
Paperback. Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 7. Weight in Grams: 181.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809315796
- ISBN
- 9780809315796
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.31
€ 44.99
€ 44.31
Writing Groups: History, Theory, and Implications (Studies in Writing ...
Associate Professor Anne Ruggles Gere Phd
Paperback. Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; CFG; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809313549
- ISBN
- 9780809313549
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.26
€ 44.99
€ 44.26
Paperback. Surveys the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman onwards. This title guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage. Editor(s): Bergman, David. Series Editor(s): Bergman, David; Larkin, Joan. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 5SG; BG; DSBH; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299230449
- ISBN
- 9780299230449
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Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Hardcover. Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2AGZ; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299222802
- ISBN
- 9780299222802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.73
€ 81.73
Paperback. Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this work illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Series Editor(s): Andrews, William L. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299222048
- ISBN
- 9780299222048
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Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Paperback. Reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. This work includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide. Translator(s): Henderson, John. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299219949
- ISBN
- 9780299219949
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Condition: New
€ 24.30
€ 24.30
Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literatur...
Balzano, Wanda, Byron, Kristine, Farquharson,...
Paperback. Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, "The Country Girls", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions. Editor(s): Colletta, Lisa; O'Connor, Maureen. Series: Irish Studies in Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299216344
- ISBN
- 9780299216344
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Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Paperback. This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299171247
- ISBN
- 9780299171247
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Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's Chiaroscuro explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2JN; BG; DN; DSB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- REV
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299160845
- ISBN
- 9780299160845
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Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the connections between her work and mass media production, and focuses on such contempories as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 b&w photographs, 14 drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299152949
- ISBN
- 9780299152949
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Condition: New
€ 23.06
€ 23.06
Paperback. Studies the development of the Cossack hero and identifies him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Judith Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, aiming to provide challenging readings of 19th- and 20th-century works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Khlebnikov, Babel and others. Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; JFHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299135249
- ISBN
- 9780299135249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.31
€ 24.31
Paperback. Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299129644
- ISBN
- 9780299129644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.80
€ 21.80