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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. In this work, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. Num Pages: 363 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633532
ISBN
9780815633532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.93

Paperback. Editor(s): Pelaschiar, Laura. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSGS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633891
ISBN
9780815633891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; ACX; DSK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 196 x 64. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Edition
First Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816516834
ISBN
9780816516834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.00

Paperback. This collection of 18 essays by the poet Kathleen Fraser, combines autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for an artist to innovate instead of following an already travelled path. The essays also examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and their visual poetics. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
3
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817309909
ISBN
9780817309909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.67

Paperback. African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial history of the United States. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817310158
ISBN
9780817310158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.62

Paperback. Editor(s): Wallace, Mark; Marks, Steven. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 511 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
511
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817310974
ISBN
9780817310974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.04

Paperback. Marjorie Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strategy often maligned as reactionary in today's critical climate but which, when construed "differentially," is vital, she believes, to any true understanding of a literary or poetic work. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817351281
ISBN
9780817351281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.72

Paperback. Presents a study of women's writing and poetics, and representations of women artists in the 20th century. This book probes the work of HD, William Carlos Williams, and Marcel Duchamp, among others, and includes DuPlessis's essay "For the Etruscans". Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817353223
ISBN
9780817353223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.67

Paperback. Offers a series of case studies on topics ranging from John White's watercolors of the Carolina landscape executed during Sir Walter Raleigh's 1585 Roanoke expedition to photographs by environmental activist Eliot Porter. This title is suitable for literary scholars who might like to include the visual arts into their own scholarship and teaching. Editor(s): Braddock, Alan C.; Irmscher, Christoph. Num Pages: 304 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817355517
ISBN
9780817355517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.72

Paperback. "The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"-- Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817357139
ISBN
9780817357139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.04

Paperback. Norman Fischer s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology." Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817358280
ISBN
9780817358280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.04

Hardcover. Examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the 18th century. The author asserts that it is individual identity conceived in social terms - a character's search for his or her place in a precarious social order. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820313658
ISBN
9780820313658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.58

Hardcover. These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices. Editor(s): Slusser, George Edgar; Rabkin, Eric S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820314556
ISBN
9780820314556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.85

Hardcover. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 42. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820314808
ISBN
9780820314808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.00

Paperback. Offers a literary and philosophical analysis of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. It draws upon Robert Coles's personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with the writer herself, and readings of her works. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820315362
ISBN
9780820315362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.98

Hardcover. An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316222
ISBN
9780820316222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

Hardcover. This is a study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks and novels, this text applies recent forms of ideological and postcolonial criticism to a body of work published from 1810 to 1992. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316734
ISBN
9780820316734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316826
ISBN
9780820316826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.07

Hardcover. This work offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author examines the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics and social life of the period. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820317304
ISBN
9780820317304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.17

Hardcover. A study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in 19th-century Georgia, this text examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters and shows how Georgian authors romanticized agrarian themes. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 2ABM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321325
ISBN
9780820321325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.12

Hardcover. This volume explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Robert Penn Warren's artistry, demonstrating that the exile figure is both a key to Warren's relation to much of 20th-century southern literature as well as an index to his growth as an artist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321783
ISBN
9780820321783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.72

Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322025
ISBN
9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardcover. This study explores the relationships of black and white women in the context of contemporary southern fiction. It provides an overview of literary incarnations of friendship and examines how prevalent specific relationships have become in certain writer's work. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322490
ISBN
9780820322490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Paperback. An anthology of 12 essays that illumine the historic - and evolving - relationships between the poetic and scientific imaginations. Assembling the writings of poets, essayists and thinkers, it highlights the ways in which poets use scientific and mathematical ideas to their artistic advantage. Editor(s): Brown, Kurt. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322872
ISBN
9780820322872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.67

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