Literature: history & criticism
Results 13901 - 13920 of 20984
Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Celebrates the work of Sembene, the African filmmaker and writer. This work contains critical essays on his oeuvre and is followed by a series of presentations by black writers. There are also remarks on his film "Camp de Thiaroye", an interview, and a bibliography of Sembene's novels and films. Editor(s): Cassirer, Thomas; etc.; Faulkingham, Ralph H. (Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Gadjigo, Samba (Associate Professor of French, Mount Holyoke College, USA); Sander, Reinhard (Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College, USA). Num Pages: 140 pages, bibliographies. BIC Classification: 1HFDS; 2ADF; 3JJP; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870238895
- ISBN
- 9780870238895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.49
€ 32.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: CB; DSB. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 785.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870497681
- ISBN
- 9780870497681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.79
€ 35.79
Paperback. The two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors, Appalachia Inside Out reveals the fascinating diversity of the region and lays to rest many of the reductive stereotypes long associated with it. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: D; DS; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870498763
- ISBN
- 9780870498763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.83
€ 42.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870815553
- ISBN
- 9780870815553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.47
€ 19.99
€ 17.47
Hardcover. Num Pages: 910 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 284 x 217 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado United States
- Number of pages
- 900
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870815683
- ISBN
- 9780870815683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 335.78
€ 335.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874171518
- ISBN
- 9780874171518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.26
€ 18.99
€ 18.26
Paperback. A challenging look at feminist criticism as well as ecocriticism and the burgeoning literature of the environment. The author explores how American literature has shaped the way people view animals as "wild" and "domestic" and the consequences of this. Series: Environmental Arts & Humanities S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874173475
- ISBN
- 9780874173475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.53
€ 23.99
€ 20.53
Paperback. This study assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey. The author asserts that his role as social commentator and environmental activist is complemented by his guise as a writer of romance - one who reconceives the contemporary world in order to envision a better one. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874173574
- ISBN
- 9780874173574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.97
€ 19.99
€ 18.97
Paperback. A collection of interviews with Mexican-American writers. They address such topics as personal background, education, sense of ethnic and gender identity, the origins and intention of published works, and views on writing, culture and art. The women come from Texas, California and New Mexico. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874174939
- ISBN
- 9780874174939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24
Paperback. In 1968, Benson set out to write a critical appraisal of John Steinbeck. He found it turning into an authorized biography: this is an account of his experiences over the 15 years he devoted to writing it. It contains both anecdotes about Steinbeck, and an account of being a biographer. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874174977
- ISBN
- 9780874174977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.53
€ 23.99
€ 20.53
Paperback. In this work, Rick Van Noy explores the ways that four American literary cartographers - Henry David Thoreau, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell and Wallace Stegner - concerned themselves with what it means to map or survey a place and what it means to write about it. Series: Environmental Arts & Humanities S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874175738
- ISBN
- 9780874175738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.59
€ 29.59
Paperback. In this literary history of Los Angeles, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874176032
- ISBN
- 9780874176032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.12
€ 19.99
€ 19.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874176063
- ISBN
- 9780874176063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.92
€ 32.92
Hardcover. Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was one of the popular female writers of her generation, and one of the first women to make a living producing fiction about the West. This book offers a view of the nineteenth-century West as a far more complex social world and reintroduces us to one of the region's most interesting and perceptive writers. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874177640
- ISBN
- 9780874177640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.04
€ 46.04
Paperback. The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. This book examines the wolf's importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal's physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 33. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874177732
- ISBN
- 9780874177732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.96
€ 31.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. In Steinbeck s formative years, she was his mainstay, his partner, his inspiration" Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874179309
- ISBN
- 9780874179309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.10
€ 36.99
€ 32.10
Hardcover. A study on ideas of nationality and their use in the development of literary values. It examines fundamental developments in Russian and Czech literature and criticism from 1800 to 1830, a period that has largely been neglected in the English-language scholarship. Num Pages: 300 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 2AGZ; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804200
- ISBN
- 9780875804200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. From the time the word kul-tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth century, Russian arts and letters have thrived on controversy. This book examines the development of a public discourse on national self-representation in nineteenth-century Russia, as it was styled by the visual arts and in popular journalism. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; AB; ACV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804606
- ISBN
- 9780875804606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.99
€ 73.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Schriber, Mary Suzanne. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875805610
- ISBN
- 9780875805610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.05
€ 34.05
Paperback. Explores the genesis of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". This book offers an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism. Editor(s): Crispi, Luca; Slote, Sam. Series: Irish Studies in Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 856.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299218645
- ISBN
- 9780299218645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.27
€ 54.27