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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and character, as well as his role as a writer and his relationships with contemporaries including Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Muir. Editor(s): Walker, Charlotte Zoe. Num Pages: 344 pages, 21 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628422
ISBN
9780815628422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.48

Paperback. This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place "Mizora" and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628392
ISBN
9780815628392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.60

Paperback. This volume takes the reader through the journey of a myth - where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics. Num Pages: 265 pages, 34 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628255
ISBN
9780815628255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.67

Hardcover. Breaking with tradition, this text argues that many of Beckett's texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations. It provides an understanding of Beckett's work in its representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Syracuse University Press New York
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815625285
ISBN
9780815625285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.85

Paperback. This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; 3JJ; BM; DSBH; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610755
ISBN
9780815610755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.56

Paperback. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2B; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815602668
ISBN
9780815602668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.57

Paperback. In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus and quickly fell due to harsh criticism. The reception marked the beginning of a dynamic association between Joyce, German-language writers, and literary critics. It is this relationship that Robert Weninger analyses in The German Joyce. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813062426
ISBN
9780813062426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813061351
ISBN
9780813061351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

hardcover. This volume examines the manuscript of the "Gawain-Pearl" poet in the light of a compositional method well recognised from the literature of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance, but largely overlooked by modern criticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 47 b&w illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813025544
ISBN
9780813025544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.46

Hardback. This text covers Joyce's writing in terms of music and evaluates the music - its form, kind and technique - in each work. Using Joyce's own rhetoric of theme and variation, the author moves from one character to another, through the poems, fiction and drama. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 illustrations, bibliographies, index, appendices, notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813016085
ISBN
9780813016085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.24

paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810134362
ISBN
9780810134362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

paperback. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810134096
ISBN
9780810134096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Nietzche and Dostoevsky are collected essays on Nietzsche Dostoevsky and twentieth-century intellectual history. Editor(s): Love, Jeff; Metzger, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133945
ISBN
9780810133945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

Paperback. In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida.

Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131729
ISBN
9780810131729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810128705
ISBN
9780810128705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127876
ISBN
9780810127876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. "Offers new perspectives on the history of propaganda, explores how it has evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and advances a nuanced understanding of what it means to call discourse propaganda"-- Num Pages: 277 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809335060
ISBN
9780809335060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.48

Paperback. A biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-20th-century author, poet, and playwright. Theatre historian Robert A. Schanke mines lost archival materials and interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and construct an account of her life and loves on Broadway and in Hollywood. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809325795
ISBN
9780809325795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.26

Paperback. In "re-reading" the sophists of fifth-century Greece, Susan C. Jarratt reinterprets classical rhetoric, with implications for current theory and composition. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809322244
ISBN
9780809322244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.26

Paperback. This source book provides an understanding of contemporary writing which articulates the multidisciplinary and polytextual nature of this writing's core investigations. Editor(s): Andrews, Bruce; Bernstein, Charles. Num Pages: 309 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809311064
ISBN
9780809311064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.35

Paperback. A comparative modernist study of the connections between Irish and Japanese literature, opening up uncharted avenues of cross-cultural exchange. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773546912
ISBN
9780773546912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.41

Paperback. Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, this text highlights their concerns and work in the context of the broader traditions of mulitculturalism, postcolonial writing, and critical theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773516656
ISBN
9780773516656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.94

hardcover. The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts. Series: The Thackeray Edition S. Num Pages: 276 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Michigan Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472110414
ISBN
9780472110414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.11

Paperback. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Editor(s): White, Edmund. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGB; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299170745
ISBN
9780299170745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

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