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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Charts new directions in the study of African-language literatures generally, and isiZulu fiction in particular. Mhlambi proposes that African popular arts and culture models be considered as a logical solution to the debates and challenges informing discourses about expressive forms in African languages. Num Pages: 220 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 2H; CJB; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145652
ISBN
9781868145652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. "In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness."--Back cover. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wits University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145614
ISBN
9781868145614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DQ; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868197951
ISBN
9780868197951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.52

hardcover. Considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety. This title makes a contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia. Editor(s): Pollock, Sheldon. Num Pages: 1105 pages, 6 maps, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
1105
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228214
ISBN
9780520228214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.82
€ 76.12

paperback. A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories. Translator(s): Cuffe, Theo. Num Pages: 208 pages, chronlogy, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446869
ISBN
9780140446869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author. Editor(s): Temple, Robert K.G. Translator(s): Temple, Olivia; Temple, Robert K.G. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446494
ISBN
9780140446494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

paperback. A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind. Editor(s): Griffin, Nigel. Translator(s): Griffin, Nigel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; 3JB; DSBB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140445626
ISBN
9780140445626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

paperback. It also includes extracts from a wealth of poems inspired by his work - including Spenser's Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Ezra Pound's Cantos and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140423884
ISBN
9780140423884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.36

paperback. Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offers a commentary on Auden's work, ideas and life within the context of the wars, ideologies, spiritual quests and sexual attitudes of this century. Series: Vintage Lives. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099442561
ISBN
9780099442561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 15.29

paperback. William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, bibliographical notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140433302
ISBN
9780140433302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099485155
ISBN
9780099485155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher; Marker, Frederick J. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802082060
ISBN
9780802082060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

paperback. Offers a perspective on J R R Tolkien's Medievalism. This book explores how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. Editor(s): Chance, Jane. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415473484
ISBN
9780415473484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.90

paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 illus. Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Peter E. Randall Publisher United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914339472
ISBN
9780914339472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.03

paperback. This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30ill. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415913911
ISBN
9780415913911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.74

hardcover. This book-lover's Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe invites readers to meaningful travel experiences. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 209. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
National Geographic
Condition
New
SKU
9781426217807
ISBN
9781426217807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.21

paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; UMB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141982489
ISBN
9780141982489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

mass_market. Tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141398679
ISBN
9780141398679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.99
€ 5.59

paperback. Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia, iamb, zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia, binary opposition, intertextuality). This book explores literary movements (neoclassism, romanticism, vorticism) and schools of literary theory. It covers genres (elegy, fabliau, pastoral) and literary forms (haiku, ottava rima, sonnet). Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141047157
ISBN
9780141047157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.68

paperback. Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake. Num Pages: 144 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141004396
ISBN
9780141004396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

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