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Literary studies: general

Hardback. A comprehensive bibliography of the Argentine novel from its beginnings in 1788, the year Miguel Learte wrote Las aventuras de Learte, until 1990, when such authors as Osvaldo Soriano and Luisa Valenzuela published their popular novels. Num Pages: 1136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
1136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810832428
ISBN
9780810832428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 288.05

paperback. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, this title concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566395403
ISBN
9781566395403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226396019
ISBN
9780226396019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.91

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136127
ISBN
9780691136127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198149781
ISBN
9780198149781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.86

Paperback. This book looks at the careers of Tillie Olsen, Henry Roth, J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison and suggests that an unproductive author could command critical attention by offering volumes of silence. Consuming Silences injects energy into debates about the nature of literary production and the cultural place of authors who do not publish. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820326993
ISBN
9780820326993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.40

Hardback. Collects essays by contemporary North American romance authors, each with her own 'take' on the romance novel today. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810836044
ISBN
9780810836044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.77

Hardcover. James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBA; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235533
ISBN
9780230235533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; AMA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349139880
ISBN
9781349139880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardback. In Narrative Strategies Roston focuses upon the Greene's texts themselves and their manipulation of reader response, highlighting the innovative strategies that Greene developed to cope with the mid-century invalidation of the traditional hero. The result is a stimulating new reading of the major novels. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003453
ISBN
9780230003453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 253 x 24. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691602981
ISBN
9780691602981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.77
€ 50.75

Hardcover. Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader's guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British Romanticism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 220 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230341395
ISBN
9780230341395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

Paperback. This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638468
ISBN
9780748638468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Argues that men must interrogate their own sexuality in dialogue with women in order to revise phallocentric discourse. Drawing on a range of genres, cultures and theoretical perspectives, this examination questions the assumptions behind the representations of manhood in modern literature. Editor(s): Murphy, Peter F. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press New York
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814754986
ISBN
9780814754986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

An abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209008
ISBN
9780872209008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 32.06

Translator(s): Ruden, Sarah. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207264
ISBN
9780872207264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.56

Paperback. First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847772466
ISBN
9781847772466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.38

hardcover. This work contributes importantly to several fields: literature, cultural history, history of medical science, the semiotics of medieval Russian, and Dostoevsky studies. Editor(s): Murav, Harriet. Num Pages: 228 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720595
ISBN
9780804720595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.62

paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816627035
ISBN
9780816627035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763538992
ISBN
9788763538992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.77

Paperback. This book discusses political change in the view of Confucian thought. This study focuses on the Book of Change, which is one of the nine basic books of Confucius School, and has dominated oriental thought in this field for more than three thousand years. Num Pages: 164 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761851257
ISBN
9780761851257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.43

Paperback. Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers animportant trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres." Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD1; HBL; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349361113
ISBN
9781349361113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

Hardcover. Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230546707
ISBN
9780230546707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Represents one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law, one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814769980
ISBN
9780814769980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.65

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