Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works. Series: Quotable. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; GBCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 101 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Octopus Publishing Group
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849535847
- ISBN
- 9781849535847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.34
€ 9.99
€ 8.34
Paperback. R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780460878111
- ISBN
- 9780460878111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.79
€ 8.99
€ 7.79
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472998
- ISBN
- 9781611472998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.36€ 16.91
€ 104.36
€ 16.91
Paperback. Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316909
- ISBN
- 9780822316909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99
€ 27.99
Hardback. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017581
- ISBN
- 9780253017581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.05
€ 92.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448218
- ISBN
- 9780801448218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.63
€ 70.63
Paperback. Sheds light on contemporary "foodie" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814770030
- ISBN
- 9780814770030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Num Pages: 264 pages, 63 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226657349
- ISBN
- 9780226657349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474409421
- ISBN
- 9781474409421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.53€ 101.60
€ 105.53
€ 101.60
Hardback. This book provides a radical reading of Edmund Spenser and argues for a re-orientation in Renaissance criticism. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748621910
- ISBN
- 9780748621910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.67€ 95.56
€ 99.67
€ 95.56
Paperback. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. A New Translation with Commentary. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 286 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DC; DSC. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight: 458. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135438
- ISBN
- 9781571135438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.62
€ 36.99
€ 35.62
Hardcover. This is a collection of critical essays on Ramsey Campbell, author of several award-winning stories and novels in the fields of fantasy and horror, including To Wake the Dead, Incarnate, and Grin of the Dark. Editor(s): Crawford, Gary William. Series: Studies in Supernatural Literature. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810892972
- ISBN
- 9780810892972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.91
€ 152.91
Hardback. Editor(s): Silver, Brenda R. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 326 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JKV; LNAA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072663
- ISBN
- 9780231072663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26€ 88.27
€ 117.26
€ 88.27
Paperback. Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326168
- ISBN
- 9780822326168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.20
€ 32.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075873
- ISBN
- 9781906075873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.20
€ 21.99
€ 20.20
Paperback. Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? This title argues that although Shakespeare strikingly dramatizes various kinds of uncertainty and scepticism, including scepticism about what it is to be human, his work can still serve as as source of existential wisdom and guidance. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748691234
- ISBN
- 9780748691234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.86
€ 34.86
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754661542
- ISBN
- 9780754661542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.44€ 94.44
€ 152.44
€ 94.44
Paperback. Re-Figuring Hayden White is a reconsideration of the work of Hayden White by a group of internationally prominent scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies. Editor(s): Ankersmit, Frank; Domanska, Ewa; Kellner, Hans. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 400 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762755
- ISBN
- 9780804762755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.15
€ 42.99
€ 42.15
Hardcover. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748647156
- ISBN
- 9780748647156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.53€ 101.00
€ 105.53
€ 101.00
Hardcover. In this thoughtful study, Leilei Chen embraces travel writing as a means of understanding Chinese "otherness" and discovering one's self in a globalized world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889774407
- ISBN
- 9780889774407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49€ 58.45
€ 64.49
€ 58.45