Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. A compelling account of the Narnia novels, unlocking their Christian symbolism and exploring the moral and spiritual wisdom that C. S. Lewis intended to convey. Answers contemporary critics of Lewis (such as Philip Pullman) over charges of sexism, violence and racial stereotyping. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 176 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Spck
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780281068951
- ISBN
- 9780281068951
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
€ 13.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. There is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396. Language, Faith and Fiction. 304 pages. There is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight: 396.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441183880
- ISBN
- 9781441183880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.87
€ 26.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486813707
- ISBN
- 9780486813707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.72
€ 16.99
€ 13.72
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540495
- ISBN
- 9780199540495
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.45
€ 14.99
€ 12.45
Paperback. Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times. Editor(s): Evans, G. Blakemore. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DS; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- New Amsterdam Books United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941533706
- ISBN
- 9780941533706
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Condition: New
€ 20.45
€ 20.45
Paperback. Brings to life the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts happily coexisted with religious ones Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814738269
- ISBN
- 9780814738269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. A philosophic grounding for textual criticism that shows how textual criticism is an integral part of the activity of reading. Num Pages: 104 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 203 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812214093
- ISBN
- 9780812214093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVP; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788377847862
- ISBN
- 9788377847862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.61
€ 21.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. Originally published in 1930, The Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight, in which he founded a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415253956
- ISBN
- 9780415253956
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.72
€ 19.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among various forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, and racism. This anthology explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Editor(s): Gaard, Greta; Murphy, Patrick Dennis. Series: The Environment and the Human Condition. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067082
- ISBN
- 9780252067082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.44
€ 34.99
€ 33.44
Hardback. This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623716
- ISBN
- 9780748623716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.96€ 96.14
€ 99.96
€ 96.14
Paperback. Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- PENGUIN BOOKS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241968772
- ISBN
- 9780241968772
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. A guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies. Each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method. Editor(s): Griffin, Gabriele. Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; GPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748683437
- ISBN
- 9780748683437
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.60
€ 38.99
€ 32.60
Paperback. Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013. Editor(s): Safran, Gabriella; Kilcher, Andreas. Num Pages: 426 pages, 36 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DS; HRAX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019622
- ISBN
- 9780253019622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.62
€ 36.99
€ 35.62
Paperback. This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers. Editor(s): McIntire, Gabrielle. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107672574
- ISBN
- 9781107672574
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Condition: New
€ 33.23
€ 33.23
Paperback. A collection of essays concerning the literature and culture of the fin de siecle period. Editor(s): Marshall, Gail. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 298 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 458. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 298 pages, 9 b/w illus. Editor(s): Marshall, Gail. A collection of essays concerning the literature and culture of the fin de siecle period. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight: 468.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521615617
- ISBN
- 9780521615617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.09
€ 37.09
Paperback. Authors here investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear. Others turn to emotions spread throughout society by contemporary events, such as a ruler's death, the outbreak of war, or religious schism, and discuss how such emotions have widespread consequences in both social practice and theory. Editor(s): Paster, Gail Kern; Rowe, Katherine; Floyd-Wilson, Mary. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 5S; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218725
- ISBN
- 9780812218725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.59
€ 36.99
€ 35.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480607
- ISBN
- 9780801480607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.99
€ 40.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Lee, Guy. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537570
- ISBN
- 9780199537570
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.42
€ 14.99
€ 12.42
Paperback. Catullus' poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. This work is a bilingual translation of Catullus' poems. It provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, and a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which he lived. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 359 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 221 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554. A Bilingual Edition. 359 pages. Catullus' poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. This work is a bilingual translation of Catullus' poems. It provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, and a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which he lived. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 156 x 221 x 25. Weight: 554. Translator(s): Green, Peter.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 359
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1 Blg
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253865
- ISBN
- 9780520253865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.71
€ 31.99
€ 22.71
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.47
€ 41.99
€ 36.47
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198398967
- ISBN
- 9780198398967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.18
€ 15.18
Paperback. This volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series focuses on the main themes and topics in the philosophy of literature. It is composed of all newly commissioned essays, written by the top scholars in the field. Note: I received a lot of advice on this project over several iterations. Editor(s): Hagberg, Garry L.; Jost, Mr. Walter. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 25. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118963876
- ISBN
- 9781118963876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Hardcover. These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature. Editor(s): Hagberg, Garry L. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198715719
- ISBN
- 9780198715719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.94
€ 150.94