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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Discusses the literary and artistic effects of globalisation Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 252 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223456
- ISBN
- 9780253223456
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Paperback. In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along with the final result. Editor(s): Hamacher, Werner; Wellbery, David E. Translator(s): Dunlop, Lane. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 123 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729550
- ISBN
- 9780804729550
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.21
€ 25.99
€ 24.21
Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indegenous Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816677917
- ISBN
- 9780816677917
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marias to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically Editor(s): Vaessens, Thomas; Dijk, Yra van. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- V9789089643698
- ISBN
- 9789089643698
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Condition: New
€ 60.05
€ 60.05
Paperback. 'Dazzling' John Updike Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330354912
- ISBN
- 9780330354912
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Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This 1906 two-volume memoir provides an unparalleled glimpse into the Rossetti family and its friendships with many Victorian cultural figures. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 318 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781108060264
- ISBN
- 9781108060264
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Condition: New
€ 40.80
€ 40.80
Paperback. This informed introduction provides the reader with an insight into Burns's world through a unique personal selection of the legendary poet's best work, chosen by John Cairney. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817855
- ISBN
- 9781906817855
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Hardcover. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. This book offers a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work both her writing and her painting. Num Pages: 208 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACXJ; AFC; AGB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500516515
- ISBN
- 9780500516515
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 5.80
€ 25.99
€ 5.80
Hardback. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847922458
- ISBN
- 9781847922458
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 4.99
€ 24.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Editor(s): Kummerling-Meibauer, Bettina. Series: Children's Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 258 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AKLB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415818018
- ISBN
- 9780415818018
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Condition: New
€ 186.49
€ 186.49
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252070822
- ISBN
- 9780252070822
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
paperback. Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914. Editor(s): Norris, Margot. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 412 pages, 8 maps; 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Norton
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393978513
- ISBN
- 9780393978513
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.49
€ 17.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803211179
- ISBN
- 9780803211179
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. Introduces Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. This title is about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and within the space of a year and a half. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FC; FJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 341.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803297418
- ISBN
- 9780803297418
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.59
€ 23.99
€ 21.59
Hardcover. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226011226
- ISBN
- 9780226011226
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Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 50.58
€ 59.15
€ 50.58
Paperback. Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442612105
- ISBN
- 9781442612105
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
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€ 29.82
Paperback. A collection of letters written by Robert Louis Stevenson throughout his remarkable life. Selected from the eight critically-acclaimed volumes of Stevenson's letters, the letters have been annotated and put in context by the editor, an authority on Stevenson's life and work. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; BG; BJ; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 41. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300091243
- ISBN
- 9780300091243
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.20
€ 40.99
€ 29.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253207876
- ISBN
- 9780253207876
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.15
€ 24.99
€ 23.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; DSB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480362
- ISBN
- 9780801480362
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.92
€ 46.99
€ 41.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Scholder, Amy. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Avalon Travel Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802136718
- ISBN
- 9780802136718
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.50
€ 17.99
€ 16.50
Paperback. Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343776
- ISBN
- 9780822343776
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069109
- ISBN
- 9780252069109
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
€ 41.99
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Paperback. Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036119
- ISBN
- 9780268036119
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.86
€ 46.99
€ 41.86
Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066528
- ISBN
- 9780719066528
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Condition: New
€ 100.56€ 90.56
€ 100.56
€ 90.56