Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. El Paso is the largest metropolitan area along the US-Mexico border and is geographically isolated from the rest of Texas. This title focuses on the often overlooked extraordinary literary heritage of this city in far West Texas. Editor(s): Daudistel, Marcia. Num Pages: 442 pages, 3 b&w photos, bib, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1365.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653877
- ISBN
- 9780875653877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.26
€ 35.26
Hardcover. Describes the merchants who made Dallas a city where haute couture is comme il faut, but, where, it is also possible to live a perfectly happy life and never wear a ball gown. Editor(s): Vick, Frances Brannen. Series: Literary Cities Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653822
- ISBN
- 9780875653822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.13
€ 34.13
Hardcover. Brings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected as the site for a new capital of the then - Republic of Texas. This work includes essays, fiction, and poetry which reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades. Editor(s): Graham, Don. Num Pages: 448 pages, bib, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; DSB; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653426
- ISBN
- 9780875653426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.37
€ 33.37
Hardcover. Almon suggests that Texas autobiography reveals as much about the state as it does the writer, recording geography and history; and economic, social, and religious practices. A sense of place distinguishes Texas autobiographical writing, for it springs from a state considered unique. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652665
- ISBN
- 9780875652665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.33
€ 43.99
€ 39.33
Hardcover. Presents a new perspective on the series of novels that created the stereotype of The Old West, published 1912-39, by looking at the romantic and erotic elements in Grey's portrayal of the landscape, the Code of the West, good guys and bad guys, and women. An appendix lists all 56 novels with short Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875651217
- ISBN
- 9780875651217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.20
€ 30.99
€ 28.20
Hardcover. The first book-length study of the life and writings of Ohran Pamuk, the first Turkish writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874809305
- ISBN
- 9780874809305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.30
€ 24.30
Hardback. For a decade of his early adulthood, Williams was a member of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. This work explores both the history behind the myths and metaphysics Williams was to make his own and the hermetic culture that influenced him. It examines its expressions in Williams' novels, poetry, and the development of his ideas. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes, biblio., index. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873387811
- ISBN
- 9780873387811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.51
€ 60.51
paperback. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 223 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed.
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872498693
- ISBN
- 9780872498693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.04
€ 28.04
Paperback. Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers. Editor(s): Gladney, Margaret Rose; Hodgens, Lisa. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349992
- ISBN
- 9780820349992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.31
€ 38.99
€ 35.31
Hardback. Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. Editor(s): Sweet, Timothy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 black & white images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSRC; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349602
- ISBN
- 9780820349602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.68
€ 60.68
Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349053
- ISBN
- 9780820349053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Hardcover. This volume presents Smollett's 1755 translation of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes discussion of the composition, publication, and reception of the work, and considers it's originality or debt to other versions. Illustrator(s): Hayman, Francis. Editor(s): Brack, O.M. (Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA). Translator(s): Smollett, Tobias. Series: Works of Tobias Smollett S. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820324302
- ISBN
- 9780820324302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.08
€ 124.08
paperback. This memoir presents a self-portrait of Esrkine Caldwell's first 30 years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial writers of his time. Series: Brown Thrasher Books. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; CBW; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780820318493
- ISBN
- 9780820318493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.35
€ 30.99
€ 27.35
Paperback. This study asks why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination". It explores concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, including the nature of metaphor, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819560261
- ISBN
- 9780819560261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.36
€ 31.36
Paperback. Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 23. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358860
- ISBN
- 9780817358860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. Editor(s): Shillinglaw, Susan; Hearle, Kevin. Num Pages: 374 pages, 4 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358600
- ISBN
- 9780817358600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. TheJournal of Turkish Literature(JTL) encompasses the literary output of the Turks in Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and elsewhere. This is volume 6. Editor(s): Halman, Talat Sait; Sheridan, Michael D.; Sheridan, R. Ashhan Aksoy; Terzioglu, Oyku. Series: Journal of Turkish Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 191 x 10. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Talat Halman
- Edition
- 6th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815681816
- ISBN
- 9780815681816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Paperback. Translator(s): Sryfi, Mbarek; Sellin, Eric. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815635185
- ISBN
- 9780815635185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.07
€ 30.07
Hardcover. Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JM; AB; ACXJ; AV; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815634089
- ISBN
- 9780815634089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Hardcover. "Covers [Arabic] literature produced by women writers in Europe and in North and South America from 1920 to 2011"--Introduction. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815634027
- ISBN
- 9780815634027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.37
€ 58.37