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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810132160
ISBN
9780810132160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves either actual Europeans or Westernized natives.

" Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 images. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC; JHBT; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810132092
ISBN
9780810132092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 11 images. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFP; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810132054
ISBN
9780810132054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK; JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131866
ISBN
9780810131866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

Paperback. Focuses on what is enduring and perennial rather than on what is accommodated to the agenda of the moment. William FrankeAEs book offers re-actualized readings of representative texts from the Bible, Homer, and Virgil to Augustine and Dante. The selections are linked together in such a way as to propose a general interpretation of knowledge. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131828
ISBN
9780810131828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

Paperback. Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131798
ISBN
9780810131798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131125
ISBN
9780810131125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810129337
ISBN
9780810129337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

Paperback. James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist's voice. McGavran's translations reveal a nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and linguistic manipulation. Translator(s): McGavran, James Holt, III. Series: Northwestern World Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 145 x 30. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810129078
ISBN
9780810129078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

Paperback. Poems specifically romantic poems, such as those by Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, and John Keats link what goes unremembered in our reading to ethics. In "Tintern Abbey," for example, Wordsworth finds in "little . . . unremembered . . . acts" the chance to hear the "still, sad music of humanity."" Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810128491
ISBN
9780810128491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.35

Paperback. Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810128385
ISBN
9780810128385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. In "The Nature of Trauma in the American Novel," Michelle Balaev undertakes an ambitious rethinking of the foundations, implementations, and new possibilities of literary trauma theory. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810128200
ISBN
9780810128200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. "Narratives Unsettled" argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language writers that only if we conceive of narrativity unburdened by plot can we properly account for radical forms of digression. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810128187
ISBN
9780810128187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. "Originally published in German as Der geheime Krieg: Verrat, Spionage und moderne Fiktion in 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main." Translator(s): Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DSBH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127630
ISBN
9780810127630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127173
ISBN
9780810127173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. Linking fresh readings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, and Osip Mandelstam to the work of Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, this title asks: how does Judaism haunt Russian literature; in what ways is Levinas' ethics as 'Russian' as it is arguably 'Jewish'; and, how do ethics and aesthetics inflect each other. Series Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810125858
ISBN
9780810125858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.91

Paperback. Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction - J M Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W G Sebald - have acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka. This work shows that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. Series Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Rumold, Rainer. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810125681
ISBN
9780810125681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. "Naked Lunch" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier, from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and cultures, this book helps understands this most influential but elusive of texts. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809329168
ISBN
9780809329168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.80

Paperback. This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807872710
ISBN
9780807872710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 50.50

Paperback. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807843499
ISBN
9780807843499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.00

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