Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332. An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Series: Canto Classics. 242 pages. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight: 344.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604704
- ISBN
- 9781107604704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00
€ 21.00
Paperback. Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Series: Duckworth Classical Essays. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715632796
- ISBN
- 9780715632796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.90
€ 33.99
€ 28.90
Hardback. Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content. Series: Modernist Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199844715
- ISBN
- 9780199844715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.41
€ 142.41
Hardcover. This pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction covers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1111.
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629966614
- ISBN
- 9789629966614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.06
€ 80.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Hsia, C. T.; Li, Wai-yee; Kao, George. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122672
- ISBN
- 9780231122672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. now available in paperback for the first time. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228474
- ISBN
- 9780230228474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.99
€ 69.99
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453358
- ISBN
- 9781137453358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 42.15
€ 65.38
€ 42.15
Hardback. After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364127
- ISBN
- 9780230364127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.91
€ 64.91
Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Pearson York Notes
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784260
- ISBN
- 9780582784260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. In 1932 the young writer and political activist C.L.R. James arrived in London from his native Trinidad. This volume reveals C.L.R. James's first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. Num Pages: 140 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2ABM; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 116 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First UK edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902669618
- ISBN
- 9781902669618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59
Hardback. This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230291577
- ISBN
- 9780230291577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56
Paperback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 113 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176109
- ISBN
- 9780691176109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.01
€ 21.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R A B Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 750 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286252
- ISBN
- 9780520286252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.26
€ 50.99
€ 36.26
Hardcover. These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics. Editor(s): DiPietro, Cary; Grady, Hugh. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017307
- ISBN
- 9781137017307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969422
- ISBN
- 9781403969422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.69
€ 64.69
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641843
- ISBN
- 9780691641843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.09
€ 134.09
Hardback. Katherine Mansfield had a lifelong interest in literatures in translation and in literary translating. From her early notebooks until letters written just before her death, she records the joy of learning foreign languages, often using transformative, inter-lingual games of her own as a source of creativity. Editor(s): Davison, Claire; Kimber, Gerri; Martin, Todd. Series: Katherine Mansfield Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; CFP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400381
- ISBN
- 9781474400381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.98€ 102.37
€ 106.98
€ 102.37
Hardback. What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieval Irish inherited and further transformed this tradition, producing vivid eschatological narratives which had a profound Editor(s): Carey, John; Nic Carthaigh, Emma; O'Dochartaigh, Caitriona. Num Pages: 964 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 252 x 59. Weight in Grams: 2732.
- Publisher
- Celtic Studies Publications,U.S. United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781891271205
- ISBN
- 9781891271205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.06
€ 137.06
Inside Angels & Demons: The Story Behind the International Bestseller
Burstein, Dan, de Keijzer, Arne
An unauthorized tie-in to the Ron Howard blockbuster movie Angels & Demons, based on the Dan Brown bestseller, starring Tom Hanks and Naomi Watts, to be a major motion picture releasing in May 2009 Editor(s): Burstein, Dan; de Keijzer, Arne; Shugarts, David A; Berger, Paul; Bernstein, Peter; Swan, Annalyn. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 107 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Carousel Press,US
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KIN0006717
- ISBN
- 9781593154899
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Tells about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. This book is also about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571300204
- ISBN
- 9780571300204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.46
€ 15.99
€ 11.46
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; FYB; FYT; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 12.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691172637
- ISBN
- 9780691172637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
€ 46.99
€ 33.49
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307949738
- ISBN
- 9780307949738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.95
€ 17.99
€ 16.95
Hardback. The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442631915
- ISBN
- 9781442631915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Paperback. This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press England
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227719
- ISBN
- 9780719067983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99