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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The making of a great Chilean poet. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662803
ISBN
9781855662803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.12

Paperback. This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137513366
ISBN
9781137513366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.39

Paperback. Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand--in mind and body--to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative--thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231109352
ISBN
9780231109352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.21

Paperback. As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk, rock - and has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music all their own, much of it learned from jazz. Num Pages: 480 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455448
ISBN
9780099455448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

Paperback. Romance readers and writers will find this collection of essays by some of the most popular romance novelists writing today unique and fascinating. For the first time, these authors explain why romance is so popular, reveal why they write in this genre, explore the unheralded benefits of reading and writing romances and much more. Editor(s): Krentz, Jayne Ann. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 307.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812214116
ISBN
9780812214116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.01

Hardback. An anthology of modern Arabic fictional arts, featuring more than one hundred and forty writers from Oman to Mauritania. It features selections ranging from the work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors, such as the historical epics of the Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 1064 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DQ; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1816.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
1064
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132541
ISBN
9780231132541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.30
€ 106.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DQ; DSBB; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149235
ISBN
9780231149235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Paperback. "Antigone" was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. Editor(s): Freeman, Dan; Freeman, Ted. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
A & C Black Publishers, Ltd.
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413695406
ISBN
9780413695406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Antoine-Dunne, Jean. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845232207
ISBN
9781845232207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 73 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 7. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
The Women's Play Press New Zealand
Number of pages
73
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780958339322
ISBN
9780958339322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.34

Paperback. The Art of Reading is the first-long overdue-collection of essays by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be published in English. As the scope of the collection shows, Bollack felt equally at home thinking in depth about both the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy and modern, including contemporary, poetry. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660199
ISBN
9780674660199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.35

Paperback. "A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing.. This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds."-Maya Angelou Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871402103
ISBN
9780871402103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393931686
ISBN
9780393931686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.22

Paperback. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. This book presents conversations in which Jean-Claude Carriere and Umberto Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of digital information is available. Translator(s): McLean, Polly. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 195 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099552451
ISBN
9780099552451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: CFK; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816616114
ISBN
9780816616114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.67

Paperback. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. 224 pages. Assesses and contrasts the reading styles of two major French philosophers, Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 13. Weight: 332.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748649051
ISBN
9780748649051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.86

Paperback. Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes's philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes's ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum. Translator(s): Morin, Marie-Eve. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270620
ISBN
9780823270620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Hardback. The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Herge's legendary hero. Translator(s): Hoy, Jocelyn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 tables, 15 figures. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760300
ISBN
9780804760300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.96

Paperback. Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Series: Critical Theory Handbooks. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119121404
ISBN
9781119121404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.18

Paperback. Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture. Editor(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215960
ISBN
9780812215960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.23

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