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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. A multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, it explores the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly. Editor(s): William, Hughes; Andrew, Smith. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719078156
ISBN
9780719078156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.17

Hardback. Editor(s): Stanivukovic, Goran V. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JFSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474295246
ISBN
9781474295246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.53
€ 116.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816650002
ISBN
9780816650002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; ACX; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146906
ISBN
9780231146906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.94

Paperback. Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures: three lectures linking form and politics with the content of poetry by Wales's first National Poet. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 4. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780370705
ISBN
9781780370705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Going beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 47, 47 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACB; AFC; AV; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416441
ISBN
9781421416441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.18

Hardback. Features the poems of the author who was a popular and highly influential figure in the cultural life of London until his death in 2004. Num Pages: 116 pages, 44 illustrations, 36 in colour. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
116
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500513835
ISBN
9780500513835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.56

Hardcover. The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. This book takes us on a meditative journey through the world of puppet theater, exploring the mysterious fascination of these unsettling objects. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 colour plates, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: ASZM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309583
ISBN
9780226309583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 21.99

Hardback. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 245 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, 14 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137514455
ISBN
9781137514455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.90

Paperback. Series: Science and Fiction. Num Pages: 181 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 28 colour illustrations, 35 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSK; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 247 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319426044
ISBN
9783319426044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.05

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3B; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644424
ISBN
9780691644424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.03
€ 105.41

Paperback. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300224283
ISBN
9780300224283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846272721
ISBN
9781846272721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

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

€ 112.73
€ 107.52

Paperback. Editor(s): Nikkanen, Anita. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474266147
ISBN
9781474266147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.75

Paperback. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571209736
ISBN
9780571209736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.46

Hardback. Editor(s): Manning, Gideon; Klestinec, Cynthia. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HPS; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319565132
ISBN
9783319565132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.57

Paperback. Sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape - breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative. Num Pages: 167 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
167
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191559
ISBN
9781845191559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed during the period of Aristotle's tutorship of Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander's tutors. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 line illustration, indexes. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Loeb Classical Library United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996564
ISBN
9780674996564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816612284
ISBN
9780816612284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.97

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 117 x 31. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996557
ISBN
9780674996557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardcover. With Shakespeare as the inspiration for Designer Bookbinders second International Competition, this lavish catalogue features contemporary design on the subject of the Great Bard from some of the best binders worldwide. Editor(s): Koch, Jeanette. Num Pages: 112 pages, 253 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242580
ISBN
9781851242580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647916
ISBN
9781442647916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. This book explores the rise and spread of the phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, prisoners performing Shakespeare's plays, from the 1980s to today. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137450203
ISBN
9781137450203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.27

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