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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. Editor(s): McFarland, Rob; James, Michelle Stott. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 324 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135865
ISBN
9781571135865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardcover. Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945. Editor(s): Finch, Helen; Wolff, Lynn L. Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 332 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135896
ISBN
9781571135896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardcover. Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; 3JJH; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135902
ISBN
9781571135902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.89

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135926
ISBN
9781571135926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.99

Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135940
ISBN
9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.28

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135988
ISBN
9781571135988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.43

Hardcover. Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Nusser, Tanja. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139016
ISBN
9781571139016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139030
ISBN
9781571139030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam. Translator(s): Metzger, Michael M. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 508 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 47. Weight in Grams: 960.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139085
ISBN
9781571139085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.98

Hardcover. Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139108
ISBN
9781571139108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Editor(s): Osborne, Dora. Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook. Num Pages: 218 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CF; DSB; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139238
ISBN
9781571139238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. A new critical assessment of the works of the Austrian-Jewish author, in whom there has been a recent resurgence of interest, from the perspective of world literature. Editor(s): Vanwesenbeeck, Birger; Gelber, Mark H. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 278 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139245
ISBN
9781571139245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.17

Hardcover. Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Editor(s): Herrmann, Elisabeth; Smith-Prei, Carrie; Taberner, Stuart. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139252
ISBN
9781571139252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardcover. Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139337
ISBN
9781571139337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century. Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139375
ISBN
9781571139375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.45

Hardcover. Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the literature of the later GDR. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139535
ISBN
9781571139535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardcover. Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139641
ISBN
9781571139641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. Presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary fiction, its virtues and vices, and its distinguished practitioners. Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 184 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575866017
ISBN
9781575866017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 23.87

Paperback. A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463775
ISBN
9781580463775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.78

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463898
ISBN
9781580463898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.70

Hardcover. Examines a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy. Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465281
ISBN
9781580465281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the 'girl power' movement of the 1990's, this title provides a critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. It traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. Num Pages: 338 pages, 10 Halftoness. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137237
ISBN
9781592137237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. Varieties of marriage in early American and British novels Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688320
ISBN
9781611688320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. The internationalization of American studies Editor(s): Shu, Yuan; Pease, Donald E. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688474
ISBN
9781611688474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.71

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