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Literary studies: general

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843672
ISBN
9781843843672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340355
ISBN
9780822340355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. Num Pages: 309 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FB; 1FMV; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206137
ISBN
9780520206137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

Hardcover. Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504325
ISBN
9780674504325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Presents studies of authors who can be visualized as the islands that constitute an unknown, fragile and trembling literary and cultural Francophone archipelago. This book argues that they repair trauma through writing. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846312212
ISBN
9781846312212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.64

Hardcover. Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical art, but rather one that demonstrates an engagement with the politics of literary influence, of gender relations, and of American culture more broadly. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219564
ISBN
9780230219564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. .
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625226
ISBN
9783837625226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 37.31

Paperback. Translator(s): Kang, Minsoo. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2GK; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 251 x 17. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107699
ISBN
9780143107699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837628548
ISBN
9783837628548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.90

Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354383
ISBN
9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270627
ISBN
9781137270627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.00

Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224933
ISBN
9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Editor(s): Miller, R. Baxter. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813114361
ISBN
9780813114361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Paperback. Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349442348
ISBN
9781349442348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

Hardback. Michael Butor was thematically concerned with changes in space and time and the artist's dilemma in recreating reality. This title is a study of Michael Butor's collaboration with three visual artists, specifically those in which the artwork preceded the text and thus provided Butor with inspiration for his texts. Num Pages: 239 pages, 74ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838639191
ISBN
9780838639191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.70

Translator(s): Miller, Andrew M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DC; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872202924
ISBN
9780872202924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.16
€ 43.45

Paperback. A masterclass in attentive reading offering brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748647286
ISBN
9780748647286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. Considers three distinct stages of travelogue - the pre-Revolution travelogue focused on first encounters with American democracy, the post-Revolution travelogue concerned with incorporating conceptions of America into the fashioning of the new Soviet state, and the more documentary-minded travelogues of the post-1930's. Num Pages: 389 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804705
ISBN
9780875804705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.88

Hardback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230297906
ISBN
9780230297906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.51

Paperback. Introduces Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. This title is about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and within the space of a year and a half. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FC; FJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803297418
ISBN
9780803297418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Hardback. Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual abuse, the autobiography is widely read in high schools and colleges across the country. This title includes discussions of Maya Angelou's novel. Series: Critical Insights. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Salem Press Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587656248
ISBN
9781587656248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.01

hardcover. The "angel of the house" is a critical commonplace in studies of the 19th-century woman. Through readings of Victorian gothic and "sensation" fiction, this book interrogates current feminist assumptions about the relation of women to the private sphere. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Edition
1992nd Edition
SKU
V9780333566152
ISBN
9780333566152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.02

Paperback. Written like a novel, i this book same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with his little nation; and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists. In the light of their wisdom this book examines situations of our time. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571173372
ISBN
9780571173372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372. Discourses & Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. 254 pages, black & white illustrations. New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ1. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight: 362.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135162
ISBN
9781571135162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.90

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