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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. An in-depth examination of the Mexican ballad tradition of the corrido and its complex relationship with violence Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; AVGH; DSC; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075629
ISBN
9780252075629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Amelia Bassano Lanier is proved to be a strong candidate for authorship of Shakespeare's plays: Hudson looks at the fascinating life of this woman, believed by many to be the dark lady of the sonnets, and presents the case that she may have written Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 304 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445655246
ISBN
9781445655246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.62

Paperback. An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393310986
ISBN
9780393310986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.70

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631035
ISBN
9780691631035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.02

Hardback. Features a contemporary poet who selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the author offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Editor(s): Motion, Sir Andrew. Series: Faber Nature Poets. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571328765
ISBN
9780571328765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198757580
ISBN
9780198757580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.28

Hardcover. An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139092
ISBN
9781571139092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.63

Paperback. This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290. The Biography of Joe Orton. 320 pages, illustrations. This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747560142
ISBN
9780747560142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

CD-Audio. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 285 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
CD
Publication date
2012
Edition
Unabridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241977545
ISBN
9780241977545
CD
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.29

Hardcover. Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504387
ISBN
9780674504387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.84

Paperback. A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198700708
ISBN
9780198700708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.53

Paperback. Offering a guide to the poet's craft, this second edition provides a useful introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199265381
ISBN
9780199265381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.51

Hardback. Why did the 19th century poet and self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find metaphysics of 'formal distinction' so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus' claim that being and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474408943
ISBN
9781474408943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.97

Paperback. Series: Student Guides. Num Pages: 95 pages, chronology, bibliography, further reading. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 2. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
95
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551594
ISBN
9781871551594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Paperback. An examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 10. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270989
ISBN
9780823270989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713642889
ISBN
9780713642889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.47

Hardcover. This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre; It will look at cinema's interest in Joyce as seen in important film versions of his work. It will bring together leading Joyce and film studies scholars. Editor(s): McCourt, John. Num Pages: 262 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184714
ISBN
9781859184714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Paperback. John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are part of the canon of Irish and world literature. This book brings together McGahern's surviving essays, reviews and speeches. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571245123
ISBN
9780571245123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Hardcover. The Trivium are the three Liberal Arts pertaining to language: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of perfecting a speaker and their speech. Also included in this compendium of seven Wooden Books are studies of Euphonics, Poetic Meter and Form, Ethics, and Proverbs. Series: Wooden Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907155185
ISBN
9781907155185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.51

Hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 244 pages, 10+ bw images. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Anthem Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857285348
ISBN
9780857285348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.69

Paperback. Contains Milton's English poems, with the exception of "Paradise Lost", together with translations and texts of his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. This work presents extensive notes and headnotes to show Milton's allusions and synthesize the judgements and disagreements of a bewildering array of modern critics. Editor(s): Carey, John. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405832793
ISBN
9781405832793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

hardcover. This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical debate. Num Pages: 630 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 39. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
630
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150971
ISBN
9781857150971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Milton's "Paradise Lost" is one of the great works of literature. This work provides contextual information and notes on composition and context combined with an explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. It also summarises the vast body of critical attention it has attracted. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 41. Weight in Grams: 922.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405832786
ISBN
9781405832786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Paperback. Series: Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812097
ISBN
9781554812097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.71

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