Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405861793
- ISBN
- 9781405861793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.94
€ 11.94
Paperback. This book provides commentary notes alongside the play text of Wilde's first successful society comedy of late Victorian society and is an account of the play's historical, social and theatrical context. Editor(s): Small, Ian. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 144 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713666670
- ISBN
- 9780713666670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.61
€ 16.61
Hardcover. Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell s life in his own words." Editor(s): Davison, Peter. Num Pages: 560 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871404626
- ISBN
- 9780871404626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.34
€ 36.99
€ 35.34
Hardback. Explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400662
- ISBN
- 9781421400662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.12€ 71.97
€ 78.12
€ 71.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155073
- ISBN
- 9781903155073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.26
€ 21.99
€ 19.26
Paperback. What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? This book takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Translator(s): Dikbas, Nazim. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571326136
- ISBN
- 9780571326136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148663
- ISBN
- 9780691148663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.80
€ 46.99
€ 33.80
Paperback. What did it mean to be a 'half caste' in early twentieth-century North America? This collection of short works ranges from magazine romance to story melodrama and provides an introduction to a unique literary personality - Onoto Watanna. It includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the versatility of her writing. Editor(s): Moser, Linda Trinh; Rooney, Elizabeth. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252070945
- ISBN
- 9780252070945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.07
€ 22.07
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century...
Olson, S. Douglas; Sens, Alexander
Paperback. Sens and Olson offer a new text of the 144 surviving lines of the parodies of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a translation; a detailed philological, historical, and gastronomic commentary; and a lively introduction to the poet and his times. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780788506154
- ISBN
- 9780788506154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.94
€ 64.94
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century...
Olson, S. Douglas; Sens, Alexander
hardcover. Sens and Olson offer a new text of the 144 surviving lines of the parodies of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a translation; a detailed philological, historical, and gastronomic commentary; and a lively introduction to the poet and his times. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- OUP USA United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780788506147
- ISBN
- 9780788506147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.82
€ 125.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 284 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBG; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 174 x 30. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772893570
- ISBN
- 9788772893570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.20€ 44.26
€ 55.20
€ 44.26
Paperback. Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. Opening with his impoverished childhood in Algiers, this biography presents the historical context, focusing on Camus' later agonising conflict between sympathy for the working class Algerians and for the French colonials with a stake in their adopted land. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099749110
- ISBN
- 9780099749110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.69
€ 21.99
€ 17.69
Hardback. Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Editor(s): Harrison, Olivia. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794213
- ISBN
- 9780804794213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.13
€ 75.13
Hardcover. Widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235179
- ISBN
- 9781936235179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.89
€ 154.89
Paperback. This is a survey of medieval Welsh literary references to Arthur, studying the figure behind the legend. The character of the references is examined with emphasis on understanding the nature of the text in which the allusions occur. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFW; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Updated Edition
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708326251
- ISBN
- 9780708326251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.84
€ 24.84
Hardcover. Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734802
- ISBN
- 9780198734802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.92
€ 176.92
Paperback. "Naked Lunch" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier, from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and cultures, this book helps understands this most influential but elusive of texts. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809329168
- ISBN
- 9780809329168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.31
€ 28.31
Paperback. This drama text is one of a series of important English plays. It includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of date and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of She Stoops to Conquer"." Editor(s): Ogden, James. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 144 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713667943
- ISBN
- 9780713667943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.32
€ 14.32
Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691645261
- ISBN
- 9780691645261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.70
€ 110.70
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.80
€ 27.99
€ 24.80