Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803282179
- ISBN
- 9780803282179
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€ 17.99€ 17.34
€ 17.99
€ 17.34
Paperback. Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in "Little Britches" and "Man of the Family". Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory hustling odd jobs. Illustrator(s): Mawicke, Tran. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 14. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803282186
- ISBN
- 9780803282186
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€ 17.99€ 17.07
€ 17.99
€ 17.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 4 appendixes, index. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780803284395
- ISBN
- 9780803284395
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€ 71.45
€ 71.45
Paperback. Constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Editor(s): Polonsky, Antony; Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; DQ; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 409.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803287679
- ISBN
- 9780803287679
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€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms "the tragedy of the separate spheres". Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 318 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803290655
- ISBN
- 9780803290655
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€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries Editor(s): Gilman, Sander L. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BG; DSA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFN; JPFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803292611
- ISBN
- 9780803292611
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€ 20.72
€ 20.72
Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803294967
- ISBN
- 9780803294967
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803295865
- ISBN
- 9780803295865
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€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 771.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804009751
- ISBN
- 9780804009751
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
paperback. New Criticism was the dominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since that time, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition to the approach advocated by the New Critics. This anthology provides an introduction, for students, to the best American poetry criticism of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Davis, Garrick. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5334 x 3404 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804011099
- ISBN
- 9780804011099
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€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Hardcover. Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804011754
- ISBN
- 9780804011754
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family's barn is consumed by flame, her identity as a healer is upended. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804011846
- ISBN
- 9780804011846
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€ 29.73
€ 29.73
paperback. What goes into the translating of a poem? Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804713276
- ISBN
- 9780804713276
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6466 x 4226 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1080.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804713498
- ISBN
- 9780804713498
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 52.60
€ 53.48
€ 52.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 396 pages, illustrations facsimiles, port. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804714686
- ISBN
- 9780804714686
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€ 43.99€ 38.72
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€ 38.72
Hardcover. This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Num Pages: 516 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 516
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715614
- ISBN
- 9780804715614
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Condition: New
€ 169.52
€ 169.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717199
- ISBN
- 9780804717199
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€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Hardcover. Argues that the sublime is important in understanding the late 19th-century shift from romanticism to modernism. The author studies the work of three French authors conventionally considered pivotal figures in the trajectory from romanticism to modernism: Hugo, Baudelaire and Lautreamont. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717861
- ISBN
- 9780804717861
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Condition: New
€ 86.77
€ 86.77
Hardcover. This text examines the concept of the "mental landscape" in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance. Num Pages: 236 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717939
- ISBN
- 9780804717939
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Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Paperback. Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3488 x 32. Weight in Grams: 700.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718226
- ISBN
- 9780804718226
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719179
- ISBN
- 9780804719179
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Condition: New
€ 96.31
€ 96.31
Hardcover. The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 701.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804719353
- ISBN
- 9780804719353
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Condition: New
€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Paperback. A book that aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719483
- ISBN
- 9780804719483
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Hardcover. In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721165
- ISBN
- 9780804721165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75