Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression. This title examines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and English. It explores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singers. Editor(s): Dunnigan, Sarah; Gilbert, Suzanne. Series Editor(s): Brown, Ian; Clancy, Thomas Owen. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748645398
- ISBN
- 9780748645398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.12
€ 38.99
€ 35.12
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089642936
- ISBN
- 9789089642936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.17
€ 39.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087686
- ISBN
- 9781844087686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478352
- ISBN
- 9780801478352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. Written by a Principal Lecturer in English with over ten years' experience in teaching literary and cultural theory, Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction gives you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It outlines the basics in clear, jargon-free English, and provides added-value features like key ideas and memorable quotations. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473611924
- ISBN
- 9781473611924
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. This is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the 'new wars' of the global era. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859899949
- ISBN
- 9780859899949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.45
€ 45.45
Hardback. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies-property, the state, and national identity-and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781421403274
- ISBN
- 9781421403274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Hardback. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486. Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation. 224 pages. Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight: 486.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748640850
- ISBN
- 9780748640850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.92€ 107.52
€ 112.92
€ 107.52
Hardback. This book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418386
- ISBN
- 9781474418386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.98€ 102.41
€ 106.98
€ 102.41
Paperback. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Castro-Klaren, Sara. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 712 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1064.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 712
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118492147
- ISBN
- 9781118492147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.41
€ 52.41
Hardback. Editor(s): Buttsworth, Sara; Abbenhuis, Maartje M. Num Pages: 243 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 296 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811026836
- ISBN
- 9789811026836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.23
€ 124.23
Paperback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822347255
- ISBN
- 9780822347255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. As in antiquity, she is regarded as Greece's supreme lyric poet. This book traces Sappho's reception in English-language poetry through translations and poems about her. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 158 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856462733
- ISBN
- 9780856462733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.15
€ 15.99
€ 14.15
mass_market. Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141398693
- ISBN
- 9780141398693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.52
€ 5.52
Paperback. Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice..' Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 68
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205918
- ISBN
- 9780872205918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.46
€ 17.99
€ 14.46
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716531388
- ISBN
- 9780716531388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.00€ 35.53
€ 45.00
€ 35.53
Hardback. Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they emerged. Series: International Library of Iranian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBN; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780767284
- ISBN
- 9781780767284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.52€ 137.06
€ 154.52
€ 137.06
Paperback. A bracingly original dialogue on modernity, class, and difference in the 20th century Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781512600193
- ISBN
- 9781512600193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 38.94
€ 50.99
€ 38.94
Paperback. "Biographia Literaria" has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. This is a completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 856 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1326.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 856
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691018614
- ISBN
- 9780691018614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.20€ 64.17
€ 83.20
€ 64.17
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474413787
- ISBN
- 9781474413787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77