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Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Gajarawala

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Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press United States
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of pages: 272
Condition: New
SKU: V9780823245253
ISBN: 9780823245253

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Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Paperback. Bringing together advice and information from a group of eminent scholars, this title aims to develop in the reader an informed and realistic approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts in what may be limited time. It is suitable for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature. Editor(s): Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, c. 50 b&w, c. 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; ACK; CFL; DSBB; HBLC; HDDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 846.

Publisher: Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780859898416
ISBN: 9780859898416

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Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Galia Benziman

Hardcover. Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages: 272
Condition: New
SKU: V9780230293922
ISBN: 9780230293922

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Coperni...

Galileo Galilei

Paperback. "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition". Translator(s): Drake, Stillman. Num Pages: 495 pages, 3 black-and-white illustrations and 31 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 822.

Publisher: University of California Press United States
Number of pages: 495
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1962
Edition: Second
Condition: New
SKU: V9780520004504
ISBN: 9780520004504

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Forty Lies

Gallas, John. Illus: Kirby, Sarah

Paperback. John Gallas's falsehoods are beautiful, ribald and audacious. Made from found language liberated from books, walls, the internet and radio, his forty lies construct an extravagant alternative reality of Russian assassins and magical shirts, Babylonian gardens, flying monks and the mathematics of Omar Khayyam. Illustrator(s): Kirby, Sarah. Num Pages: 84 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 176 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages: 84
Condition: New
SKU: V9781847770493
ISBN: 9781847770493

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Richard Peck

Gallo, Donald R.; Glenn, Wendy J.

Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 406.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages: 222
Condition: New
SKU: V9780810858480
ISBN: 9780810858480

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On Forsyte' Change

Galsworthy John:

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Condition: Used, Good
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1930
SKU: KST0020606

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Selected Poems

Galway Kinnell

Paperback. Features a range of poems: from odes of kinship with nature to realistic evocations of urban life, from religious quest to political statement, from brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition: New
SKU: V9781852245412
ISBN: 9781852245412

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Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection

Gander Catherine

Hardcover. Provides a perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influences. This study of twentieth-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser explores the multiple avenues of her 'poetics of connection' to reveal a profound engagement with the equally intertextual documentary genre. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages: 256
Condition: New
SKU: V9780748670536
ISBN: 9780748670536

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The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating i...

Gang Yue

Paperback. Suitable for sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others curious about the semiotics of food, this book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. It includes chapters on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CFG; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 776.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Duke University Press United States
Number of pages: 464
Condition: New
SKU: V9780822323419
ISBN: 9780822323419

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Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature

Gang Zhou

Paperback. This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 289.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2011
Number of pages: 188
Condition: New
SKU: V9781349292110
ISBN: 9781349292110

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Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature

Gang Zhou

Hardback. This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages: 188
Condition: New
SKU: V9780230109391
ISBN: 9780230109391