Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. E. Pauline Johnson's writings on Indigenous issues and identity are gathered for the first time in this new collection. Editor(s): Fee, Margery; Nason, Dory. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811915
- ISBN
- 9781554811915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.31
€ 32.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of 'literature' as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOG0008010
- ISBN
- 9780415169141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823276837
- ISBN
- 9780823276837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.81
€ 33.81
Hardcover. Although often embroiled in controversy and public debate, Spender's all consuming passion was literature. This is a serious literary biography which quotes extensively from Spender's writing and shows its relationship to the major political and social events with which Spender became involved. Num Pages: 350 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 644. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016490
- ISBN
- 9780715629482
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 187 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306810732
- ISBN
- 9780306810732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.39
€ 23.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Gale, Monica R. Num Pages: 200 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688898
- ISBN
- 9780856688898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.62
€ 41.62
Hardcover. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772895604
- ISBN
- 9788772895604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.91
€ 48.99
€ 35.91
Paperback. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected. Num Pages: 238 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080110
- ISBN
- 9781847080110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Inscription to previous owner on half title page, remains very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- SOUTHBANK PUBLISHING
- SKU
- KCW0017297
- ISBN
- 9781904915096
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse in England from the 5th to the 15th century. The book explores how a living tradition articulated through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers found expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268020248
- ISBN
- 9780268020248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.82
€ 37.82
Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishing
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853994883
- ISBN
- 9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.61
€ 34.61
Hardcover. "Jazz in the Time of the Novel" argues that a culture s understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices." Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817318048
- ISBN
- 9780817318048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.93
€ 59.93
Paperback. Anna Akhmatova was a great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet's close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal the life of a passionate artist forced to endure sorrow and oppression. This volume contains the journals kept between 1938 and 1941. Translator(s): Michalski, Milena; Rubashova, Sylvia; Norman, Peter. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; 3JJG; 3JJH; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810119406
- ISBN
- 9780810119406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.58
€ 29.58
Paperback. Considers how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video. Addressing the interplay between the discourses of Shakespeare criticism, film studies, performance studies and cultural studies, the text considers a range of questions about spectatorship, originality and popular culture. Editor(s): Boose, Lynda E.; Burt, Richard. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; APFA; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415165853
- ISBN
- 9780415165853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.18
€ 58.18
Hardback. Poetry in Saudi Arabia today is a dramatic manifestation of the rapid changes that are sweeping not only through the country's literature and culture, but also through Saudi life as a whole. This title presents a picture of how poetry has evolved in Saudi Arabia. Editor(s): Al-Bazei, Saad. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSC; FYT; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780760988
- ISBN
- 9781780760988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.95€ 133.60
€ 147.95
€ 133.60
Hardback. The formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with the unification of the two Kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd, not only unified parts of the Arabian peninsula which had until then remained disparate, but also led to the development of a distinct Saudi Arabian literature. This title offers insight into the complex and enigmatic setting of Saudi Arabia. Editor(s): Al-Sebail, Abdulaziz; Calderbank, Anthony. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK; FA; FYB; FYT; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780760995
- ISBN
- 9781780760995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.95€ 133.60
€ 147.95
€ 133.60
Paperback. This new annotated edition inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 944 pages, 11 illustrations, chronology, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSC; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 2 Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393974966
- ISBN
- 9780393974966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.39
€ 16.99
€ 16.39
Paperback. One of the classic novels of English literature which was admired by Virginia Woolf as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. This edition includes a critical introduction, and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot and historical documents. Editor(s): Maertz, Gregory. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 739 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551112336
- ISBN
- 9781551112336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.56
€ 31.99
€ 22.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; G; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880795
- ISBN
- 9781589880795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.68
€ 20.99
€ 15.68
Hardback. Editor(s): Brater, Enoch. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- Student
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472514974
- ISBN
- 9781472514974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.57
€ 122.57
Paperback. Henry IV, Part One has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays since it was first produced, and was reprinted several times during the playwright's lifetime. This Broadview Edition provides a discussion of the play's performance history, and both the introduction and footnotes encourage readers to think about the play as a performance text. Editor(s): Gaby, Rosemary. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810512
- ISBN
- 9781554810512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.94
€ 22.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Nakassis, Dimitri; Gulizio, Joann; James, Sarah A. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 tables, 31 B/W figures. BIC Classification: DSBB; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 284 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- INSTAP Academic Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931534765
- ISBN
- 9781931534765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.27
€ 116.27
Paperback. By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; DSBF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748664894
- ISBN
- 9780748664894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.82
€ 32.99
€ 30.82
Paperback. Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226060415
- ISBN
- 9780226060415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.65
€ 39.65