Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Spanning a full century, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 35, 14 black & white illustrations, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; DS; HBJF; HBJK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422510
- ISBN
- 9781421422510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.67
€ 81.67
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474275019
- ISBN
- 9781474275019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.20€ 82.24
€ 129.20
€ 82.24
Hardback. This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology. This major work in attribution studies presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Egan, Gabriel. Num Pages: 776 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 182 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1618.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199591169
- ISBN
- 9780199591169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 318.41
€ 318.41
Hardback. A completely new modern-spelling edition of all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited afresh from the original texts. With extensive introductions and on-page notes, it gives students and theatre-lovers the very best resources to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's works. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John; Bourus, Terri; Egan, Gabriel. Series: New Oxford Shakespeare. Num Pages: 3392 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DDS; DSG; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 262 x 187 x 75. Weight in Grams: 2772.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Har/Psc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199591152
- ISBN
- 9780199591152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.59
€ 171.59
Paperback. Editor(s): May, Charles E. Num Pages: 364 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 1. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821410875
- ISBN
- 9780821410875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.91
€ 24.99
€ 22.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Keefer, Kyle. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 108 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195300208
- ISBN
- 9780195300208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials. Translator(s): Edwards, Cyril. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3H; AVGC; AVH; DCF; DSBB; FQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199238545
- ISBN
- 9780199238545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.33
€ 16.99
€ 13.33
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138020740
- ISBN
- 9781138020740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.07€ 85.58
€ 135.07
€ 85.58
Paperback. What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available in paperback, ranges over hundreds of novels from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218864
- ISBN
- 9780230218864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502865
- ISBN
- 9781137502865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157438
- ISBN
- 9780231157438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.73
€ 33.99
€ 24.73
Paperback. A quirky popular reference book for literature lovers weary in brain and body and in need of a novel cure .. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857864215
- ISBN
- 9780857864215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1996th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333614518
- ISBN
- 9780333614518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Hardcover. The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity. Num Pages: 1180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 257 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1874.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724730
- ISBN
- 9780674724730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.35
€ 44.99
€ 41.35
Paperback. The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the business of writing and reading. Series: The Literary Agenda. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 238 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739593
- ISBN
- 9780198739593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.35
€ 42.35
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bruhn, Jorgen; Lundquist, Jan. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896014
- ISBN
- 9788772896014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Bose, Sarika. Series: Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812110
- ISBN
- 9781554812110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.06
€ 25.99
€ 24.06
Paperback. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099509349
- ISBN
- 9780099509349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674630765
- ISBN
- 9780674630765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.18
€ 43.99
€ 37.18
Paperback. A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 560 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC; FC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140268867
- ISBN
- 9780140268867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.65
€ 21.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow. Translator(s): Shewring, Walter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536788
- ISBN
- 9780199536788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472532480
- ISBN
- 9781472532480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.69
€ 21.99
€ 20.69
Hardback. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192444
- ISBN
- 9780141192444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Translator(s): Rieu, E. V. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582431515
- ISBN
- 9780582431515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.44
€ 11.44