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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. The creative potential is inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres or media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, govern the transposer, audience, and critic. The practice of transposition gives rise to a creative conflict. This title features essays and reviews, linked by these themes. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 789.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843819
ISBN
9781934843819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.26

Hardback. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s. This title presents a study of Ivan Konevskoi - poet, thinker, mystic - for many decades the 'lost genius' of Russian modernism. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843895
ISBN
9781934843895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.67

Hardback. The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in "Anna Karenina" (1878). This title identifies and analyses 'linkages and keystones' found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna's momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky's disastrous steeplechase. Num Pages: 132 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235186
ISBN
9781936235186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.16

Hardback. An almanac that deals with the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Editor(s): Leving, Yuri. Num Pages: 326 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235193
ISBN
9781936235193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.79

Hardcover. Editor(s): Lipovetsky, Mark; Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235407
ISBN
9781936235407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.89
€ 121.01

Hardback. From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 836.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235421
ISBN
9781936235421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.34
€ 127.45

Hardback. A book, in which, the authors read some of the classics in the Russian novelistic tradition against a critique of the Lukacs-Bakhtin view of epic, all the while demonstrating the modernity of epic as a literary mode and arguing how some key Russian novels challenge or outgrow their generic form to re-imagine or re-invent a new, monumental one. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235537
ISBN
9781936235537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; DSB; HPCF7; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Three Rooms Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941110065
ISBN
9781941110065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838203089
ISBN
9783838203089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.01

Hardcover. Editor(s): Runge, Laura L.; Rogers, Pat. Num Pages: 298 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491265
ISBN
9781611491265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.21

Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493092
ISBN
9781611493092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.93

paperback. Num Pages: 926 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 51. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage United States
Number of pages
926
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780679731979
ISBN
9780679731979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.88

paperback. In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140298000
ISBN
9780140298000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

hardcover. Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor Editor(s): Delaney, Paul; Parker, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719087905
ISBN
9780719087905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.82

hardcover. Num Pages: 269 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072243
ISBN
9780231072243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.57

hardcover. This collection presents the best of George Bernard Shaw's witticisms and other turns-of-phrase. It surveys Shaw's passion for politics, the arts, and life in general. Editor(s): Dukore, Bernard F. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB; DQ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
New
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104784
ISBN
9780231104784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.43

paperback. Named a top 10 Best Book of 2012 by Slate.com An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction. Num Pages: 128 pages, Two-color throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 177 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393340730
ISBN
9780393340730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.54

hardcover. Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055577
ISBN
9780719055577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.31

hardcover. This book focuses on the five dramas written by Samuel Beckett for television, in the context of British television. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APTD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719064203
ISBN
9780719064203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.83

hardcover. The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719071560
ISBN
9780719071560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.77

hardcover. The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett's poetics through the notion of 'nothing', analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett's prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations. Editor(s): Caselli, Daniela. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719080197
ISBN
9780719080197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.62

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724036
ISBN
9780804724036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.41

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726139
ISBN
9780804726139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.64

hardcover. This book is an exploration of the notion of "drive" as it passes from Kant's need of reason, to Freud's concept of hallucinatory wish fulfillment, to the relentless force of indifferentiation in Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751131
ISBN
9780804751131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.55

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