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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press ELT
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472085408
ISBN
9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.97

Paperback. Presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's novel in several illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. This book contains a chronology coordinating the author's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. Series: Longman Cultural Editions. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pearson Education (US) United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780321399533
ISBN
9780321399533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.69

Hardcover. Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pearson
Edition
5th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780205175482
ISBN
9780205175482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.40

Paperback. Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's great epic of universal change, into elegant and remarkably faithful blank verse, along with selections from the Amores. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199941650
ISBN
9780199941650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.26

Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 1264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pearson Education (US) United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
1264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780134053325
ISBN
9780134053325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604734201
ISBN
9781604734201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.84

paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780940322127
ISBN
9780940322127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.29

paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780300189698
ISBN
9780300189698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.75

paperback. Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Num Pages: 676 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 173 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780140291179
ISBN
9780140291179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 24.73

Paperback. Featuring the text of the original play "The Scarlet Letter", a list of characters with descriptions, and helpful commentary, this title is suitable for students or for those who wish to gain an understanding of the text. Editor(s): SparkNotes. Series: No Fear. Num Pages: 432 pages, b&w throughout. BIC Classification: DSRC; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Spark Notes United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411426979
ISBN
9781411426979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 1088 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB; HBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 280 x 45. Weight in Grams: 2972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cengage Learning
Edition
9th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781337296724
ISBN
9781337296724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 369.02

paperback. This work offers a mapping of the cultural landscape of China in the late 20th century. By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the book dissects the intellectual, economic and political contradictions of a turbulent era. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804742047
ISBN
9780804742047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 45.98

Paperback. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712666350
ISBN
9780712666350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.49

paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st
SKU
V9780312400378
ISBN
9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

paperback. The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075919
ISBN
9780252075919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.52

paperback. The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. It explores the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071294
ISBN
9780252071294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.33

paperback. A collection of poems that find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. It comments on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 203. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071201
ISBN
9780252071201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069611
ISBN
9780252069611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.34

paperback. Presents a personal chronicle of Fanny, a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. This novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069468
ISBN
9780252069468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

paperback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780231164870
ISBN
9780231148498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.87

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