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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482083
- ISBN
- 9780801482083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Hardcover. Demonstrates the ways post colonial studies has adapted Bourdieu's sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of postcolonialism as a field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and more. Editor(s): Dalleo, Raphael. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations, Black and White. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382967
- ISBN
- 9781781382967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.20€ 81.64
€ 130.20
€ 81.64
Paperback. Statius' 'Achilleid' is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. In relating this story, Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. Editor(s): Dilke, O.A.W. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675112
- ISBN
- 9781904675112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.94
€ 32.94
Paperback. Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955010514
- ISBN
- 9780955010514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.08
€ 18.99
€ 14.08
Paperback. Shows magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history. Editor(s): Faris, Wendy B. Num Pages: 592 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316404
- ISBN
- 9780822316404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming'; time and the flow of life; 'major' and 'minor' literature; difference and repetition; and desire, the image and ideology. This book is intended for students who wish to think differently about life and literature and to create their own readings of literary texts. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415246347
- ISBN
- 9780415246347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
Hardcover. This work gives an overview of trends in American crime fiction. It focuses on the work of popular and award-winning authors since 1985. Attention is given to writers who have re-worked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 248 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2001 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333674550
- ISBN
- 9780333674550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.81
€ 127.81
Paperback. Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. Series: Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 214. Series: Reader's Guides. 160 pages. Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 12. Weight: 212.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826426017
- ISBN
- 9780826426017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.55
€ 37.55
Paperback. When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house. Translator(s): Clifford, Jo. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 110 x 9. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848421813
- ISBN
- 9781848421813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.45
€ 7.45
Hardcover. Featuring plays and poetry from all over the world, including Latin American and African fiction, this book offers a deeper look into the famed fiction of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and more, as in-depth literary criticism and interesting authorial biographies give each work of literature a new meaning. Series: Big Ideas. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 195. .
- Publisher
- Dorling Kindersley Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241015469
- ISBN
- 9780241015469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.12
€ 26.99
€ 19.12
Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316328
- ISBN
- 9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.45€ 41.39
€ 59.45
€ 41.39
Paperback. In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330491389
- ISBN
- 9780330491389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. This collection of twelve previously unpublished essays explores the conflicts sparked by the extraordinary range of new ideas and material possibilities in the eighteenth-century British Empire, reading the Enlightenment less as a set of axioms than as a variety of cultural and ideological formations. Editor(s): Choudhury, Mita; Rosenthal, Laura J. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481266
- ISBN
- 9781611481266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.64
€ 142.64
Paperback. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Series: Cambridge Contexts in Literature. Num Pages: 130 pages, 1 colour book. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 4KH; DSBD; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521663908
- ISBN
- 9780521663908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 342. Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. 256 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight: 360.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152570
- ISBN
- 9780231152570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Editor(s): Lane, Richard J. Num Pages: 976 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1710.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 976
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415783026
- ISBN
- 9780415783026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.33
€ 78.33
Hardcover. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Defoe's oeuvre from the perspective of the historian. Clark presents Defoe by recovering the theological basis of his intellectual commitments, establishing him as a crucial figure in the evolution of theories about war and property, conquest and commerce, religious toleration and civil society. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333971369
- ISBN
- 9780333971369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. A lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style and present the texts in relation to their social, political and cultural contexts. Clear and concise, the updated second edition now features a new final chapter on twenty-first century literature. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352668
- ISBN
- 9781137352668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Paperback. A sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance of ancient Greek religion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253208910
- ISBN
- 9780253208910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.10
€ 22.10
Paperback. Since the 1950s Maurice Blanchot has been an influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. This collection of 22 critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests. Translator(s): Rottenberg, Elizabeth. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727594
- ISBN
- 9780804727594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Series: Critical Theory Handbooks. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119121404
- ISBN
- 9781119121404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41
Paperback. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSA; HBAH; HBTZ1; JFC; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414003
- ISBN
- 9781421414003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.02
€ 33.99
€ 33.02
Paperback. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events. Series: Spanish Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719009501
- ISBN
- 9780719009501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.29
€ 16.29
Paperback. 'Oxford Student Texts' provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Up-to-date to meet today's curriculum requirements for post-16 study, this series is designed to motivate and encourage students working on these challenging writers for the first time. Editor(s): Gill, Richard. Series Editor(s): Lee, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XS) Student text. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198325758
- ISBN
- 9780198325758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.84
€ 19.84