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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. The study of Arabic literary texts is blossoming and this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSK; DSY; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474420518
ISBN
9781474420518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.60
€ 118.95

Hardback. After the 1911 fall of the Qing dynasty, many declared the classical Chinese poetic tradition dead. In this book, the author draws on extensive archival research into the poetry collections and literary journals of two generations of writers to challenge this claim and demonstrate the continuing significance of the classical form. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 788.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
488
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674726673
ISBN
9780674726673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411029
ISBN
9781572411029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages. BIC Classification: DS; E. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
357
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411616
ISBN
9781572411616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.35

Paperback. This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624508
ISBN
9780748624508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of 6 decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade together with an extensive commentary on the period. Series Editor(s): Boon, Richard; Roberts, Philip. Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting. Num Pages: 352 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408129562
ISBN
9781408129562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408129579
ISBN
9781408129579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.95

Paperback. Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1980s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Howard Barker, Jim Cartwright, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker. Series Editor(s): Boon, Richard; Roberts, Philip. Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting. Num Pages: 352 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPL; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408129593
ISBN
9781408129593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.69

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408129265
ISBN
9781408129265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.78

Paperback. 'Modern Criticism and Theory' has long been regarded as a necessary collection. This third edition provides students and the general reader with a wide-ranging survey of the landscape of modern theory and a critical assessment of the way we think - and live - in the world today. Num Pages: 866 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1472.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
864
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582784543
ISBN
9780582784543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.88

Paperback. This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama "modern". Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199658770
ISBN
9780199658770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. This volume offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 870.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624492
ISBN
9780748624492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Hardback. Editor(s): Keeley, Edmund; Bien, Peter. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646589
ISBN
9780691646589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.37

Paperback. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609898
ISBN
9780691609898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 51.53

Hardcover. Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic Jews Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253356727
ISBN
9780253356727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.08

Paperback. Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work; putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Series: Film and Literature Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 4KLR; CJB; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Bilingual, Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471890109
ISBN
9781471890109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.14

Paperback. Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work; putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology. Series: Film and Literature Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 4KLR; CJB; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Bilingual, Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471890161
ISBN
9781471890161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.20

Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 10 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199754915
ISBN
9780199754915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents with helpful introductory commentary. It includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir. Editor(s): Waugh, Patricia; Rice, Philip. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340761915
ISBN
9780340761915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.31

Hardback. This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748636730
ISBN
9780748636730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.99

Paperback. This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624515
ISBN
9780748624515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. A satirical attack on what William Beckford perceived as characteristically feminine novel-writing. Editor(s): Gemmett, Robert J. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Nonsuch Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845886080
ISBN
9781845886080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.29

Hardcover. Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. It offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and suffering, and new interpretation of "ethics" and "evil". Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692415
ISBN
9780748692415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.99

Paperback. Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192804419
ISBN
9780192804419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

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