Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206458
- ISBN
- 9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69
Paperback. Examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. This work includes essays that draw on an array of documentary evidence - such as library catalogs and prefaces - to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Editor(s): Andersen, Jennifer; Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217940
- ISBN
- 9780812217940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.39
€ 47.39
Paperback. Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; DQ; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064055
- ISBN
- 9780271064055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.54
€ 64.54
Paperback. Series: MIP Richard Rawlinson Center Series. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 2ADL; 2AF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580441827
- ISBN
- 9781580441827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.48
€ 34.48
Paperback. A tribute to the enduring power of the printed word. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782069423
- ISBN
- 9781782069423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.77
€ 14.99
€ 11.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033231
- ISBN
- 9780268033231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.71
€ 44.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSB; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206823
- ISBN
- 9780520206823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816639588
- ISBN
- 9780816639588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.07
€ 35.07
Paperback. Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation. Num Pages: 456 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761055
- ISBN
- 9780804761055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.33
€ 29.99
€ 27.33
Paperback. This text, using examples ranging from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, examines the influence that the concept of "boredom" exerts on the literary imagination. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768540
- ISBN
- 9780226768540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.55
€ 50.55
Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349053
- ISBN
- 9780820349053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.44
€ 63.44
Paperback. Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Peurto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. The story of an American community of colour, "Boricua Literature" is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780814731475
- ISBN
- 9780814731475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165945
- ISBN
- 9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.54
€ 56.54
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135568
- ISBN
- 9781571135568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.22
€ 97.22
Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781380307
- ISBN
- 9781781380307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 6.23
€ 17.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. This title examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554583577
- ISBN
- 9781554583577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.98
€ 52.98
Paperback. Translator(s): Davis, Dick. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934211383
- ISBN
- 9780934211383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.86
€ 21.99
€ 17.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 193 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481662
- ISBN
- 9781611481662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.22
€ 113.22
Hardback. Series: Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies S. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AJKR; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Association for Armenian Studies & Research United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780935411225
- ISBN
- 9780935411225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.70
€ 56.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AV; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780967967523
- ISBN
- 9780967967523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.25
€ 23.99
€ 17.25