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Paperback. Kafka's Bluesproves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English)." Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810132856
ISBN
9780810132856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926711
ISBN
9780813926711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926704
ISBN
9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.25

Paperback. Series: Reading Hemingway. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606352397
ISBN
9781606352397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.86

Hardcover. In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. This title reintroduces this influential writer to a generation of readers. Editor(s): Cohen, Mark R. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 black-&-white illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609483
ISBN
9780815609483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. This is a collection of poems by Mark Cox. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822958390
ISBN
9780822958390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.00

Hardback. Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45, 16 colour, 29 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842804
ISBN
9781843842804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.98

Paperback. Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642465
ISBN
9780748642465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.08

Paperback. Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. It also provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402354
ISBN
9781474402354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.66

Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748676293
ISBN
9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.20
€ 108.92

Paperback. Mark Currie offers a comprehensive account of the history of the term and its place in some of the most influential schools of theory of the past four decades. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415222228
ISBN
9780415222228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.22

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931968
ISBN
9780813931968
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.10

Paperback. Offers a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life. This book includes poems that seek repair, finally, through the possibilities that sustain the speaker above ground: gardens and animals; the pleasure of seeing; the world tuned by the word. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224099837
ISBN
9780224099837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.74

paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Number of pages
140
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975630
ISBN
9781555975630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.84

Hardcover. This work pairs Mark Doty's elegy to his friend, Lynda Hull, with visual details of Murano glass. The poem originally appeared in "Sweet Machine" published by Harper Flamingo in 1998. The Murano glass is from the Getty collection. Num Pages: 56 pages, 28 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; WFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Getty Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0013479
ISBN
9780892365982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of poems by the author who is the recipient of a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award and also the author of "Turtle, Swan" and "Bethlehem in Broad Daylight". Series: National Poetry Series. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063176
ISBN
9780252063176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.46

Hardback. Elegant, plain-spoken, and unflinching, Mark Doty s poems . . . invite us to share their ferocious compassion. National Book Award, judges citation for Fire to Fire" Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393070231
ISBN
9780393070231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490978
ISBN
9781611490978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.73

Hardcover. Fine copy with fine D.J. 1st Ed
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
SKU
KST0003295
ISBN
9780436144882
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.44

hardcover. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730907
ISBN
9780804730907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.36

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