Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This book looks at the careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison and suggests that an unproductive author could command critical attention by offering volumes of silence. Consuming Silences injects energy into debates about the nature of literary production and the cultural place of authors who do not publish. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820326993
- ISBN
- 9780820326993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.40
€ 35.40
Hardcover. Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325446
- ISBN
- 9780820325446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Wallace Stevens, one of the leading poets of the 20th century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. Here, Brogan traces Steven's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325194
- ISBN
- 9780820325194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Paperback. An anthology of 12 essays that illumine the historic - and evolving - relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of poets, essayists and thinkers, it highlights the ways in which poets use scientific and mathematical ideas to their artistic advantage. Editor(s): Brown, Kurt. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322872
- ISBN
- 9780820322872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.51
€ 37.51
Hardcover. This study explores the relationships of black and white women in the context of contemporary southern fiction. It provides an overview of literary incarnations of friendship and examines how prevalent specific relationships have become in certain writer's work. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322490
- ISBN
- 9780820322490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.08
€ 67.08
Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322025
- ISBN
- 9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Hardcover. This volume explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Robert Penn Warren's artistry, demonstrating that the exile figure is both a key to Warren's relation to much of 20th-century southern literature as well as an index to his growth as an artist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820321783
- ISBN
- 9780820321783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.65
€ 63.65
Hardcover. A study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in 19th-century Georgia, this text examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters and shows how Georgian authors romanticized agrarian themes. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 2ABM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820321325
- ISBN
- 9780820321325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.79
€ 74.79
Hardcover. This work offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author examines the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics and social life of the period. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820317304
- ISBN
- 9780820317304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316826
- ISBN
- 9780820316826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.96
€ 48.96
Hardcover. This is a study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks and novels, this text applies recent forms of ideological and postcolonial criticism to a body of work published from 1810 to 1992. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316734
- ISBN
- 9780820316734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardcover. An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316222
- ISBN
- 9780820316222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.72
€ 66.72
Paperback. Offers a literary and philosophical analysis of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. It draws upon Robert Coles's personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with the writer herself, and readings of her works. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820315362
- ISBN
- 9780820315362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.82
€ 37.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 42. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820314808
- ISBN
- 9780820314808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.67
€ 77.67
Hardcover. These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices. Editor(s): Slusser, George Edgar; Rabkin, Eric S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820314556
- ISBN
- 9780820314556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.96
€ 53.96
Hardcover. Examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the 18th century. The author asserts that it is individual identity conceived in social terms - a character's search for his or her place in a precarious social order. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820313658
- ISBN
- 9780820313658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- Stated First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816517923
- ISBN
- 9780816517923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.56
€ 34.56
Paperback. Editor(s): Pelaschiar, Laura. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSGS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633891
- ISBN
- 9780815633891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.87
€ 30.87
Hardcover. In this work, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. Num Pages: 363 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633532
- ISBN
- 9780815633532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.69
€ 53.69
Hardcover. Traces the feminist contributions of a wide range of Irish American women writers, from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Mitchell to contemporary authors such as Gillian Flynn, Jennifer Egan, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633303
- ISBN
- 9780815633303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.12
€ 53.12
Hardcover. It has been said that the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. This title explores the tension between dynamics of literary influence and canon formation within the Arabic literary tradition. It challenges the reader to re-examine notions of translation, bilingualism, and postcoloniality. Translator(s): Hassan, Wail S. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 144 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; CFP; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631910
- ISBN
- 9780815631910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.45
€ 27.45
Paperback. This study emphasizes the pattern of literary change in Iran, as it focuses on the relationship between the constructive elements of literary creativity, literary movement, ideology, and metaphorical language of modern Persian authors. Num Pages: 232 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 2BXF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628194
- ISBN
- 9780815628194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.52
€ 34.52
Hardcover. In this work the aphorisms collected from nine collections, are paired with spectacular photographs and focus on the natural environment, grouped by theme: nature, seasons, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Editor(s): Allen, Roger. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610342
- ISBN
- 9780815610342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.01
€ 13.01
Paperback. An illuminating inside look at the life and times of playwright and author Jacob Gordin, a central presence in the Golden Age of Yiddish theater Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 119 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609964
- ISBN
- 9780815609964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.64
€ 21.99
€ 21.64