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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Shows what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Num Pages: 293 pages, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226270050
ISBN
9780226270050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403986412
ISBN
9781403986412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

paperback. This book explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, but simultaneously closeted them within a form of writing that often encompassed genre, style, rhetoric and theme. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2007
SKU
V9781349540853
ISBN
9781349540853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1996
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349244553
ISBN
9781349244553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.88

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, profusely illustrated in colour throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; AGB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 245 x 18. Weight in Grams: 924.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Halstar
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906690571
ISBN
9781906690571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.96

Hardcover. A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. Editor(s): Turner, Marion. Series: Critical Theory Handbooks. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470655382
ISBN
9780470655382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.45

Paperback. Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349449996
ISBN
9781349449996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

hardcover. Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of "romanticism" emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847683932
ISBN
9780847683932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.76

Hardback. Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497277
ISBN
9781137497277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

Hardback. This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750462
ISBN
9780804750462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Hardback. Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. This work helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131115
ISBN
9780691131115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Paperback. The celebrated Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa, gives an account of his ultimately unsuccessful attempt to run his country, and of his childhood and career. Translator(s): Lane, Helen R. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; BGHA; DSBH; DSK; FA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 128 x 198 x 43. Weight in Grams: 369.
Publisher
FABER AND FABER
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571175123
ISBN
9780571175123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585100439
ISBN
9781585100439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788377845950
ISBN
9788377845950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.04

Hardcover. The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137426918
ISBN
9781137426918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099739814
ISBN
9780099739814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8pp color plates, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ; HRQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 742.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199239238
ISBN
9780199239238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.76

Paperback. Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays, she has been one of the most challenging and profound commentators on the culture. This collection draws together essays, offering a retrospective of her changing ideas on literature and culture - on fiction, drama, religion, language and fairy tale. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437727
ISBN
9780099437727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.57

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198779858
ISBN
9780198779858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489860
ISBN
9780801489860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. 228 pages. An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Dimension: 224 x 154 x 13. Weight: 372.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
228
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521713344
ISBN
9780521713344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.10

Paperback. A study of the early years of the Field Day Theatre Company, which has been a vital presence on the Irish cultural and intellectual scene since its inception in 1980. Drawing on reviews, pre-production publicity and personal interviews, it discusses Field Day's evolving aims and achievements. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JJPN; AN; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813210759
ISBN
9780813210759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.93

Paperback. Series: Mediaeval Cultures S. Num Pages: 296 pages, with 17 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816622474
ISBN
9780816622474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

paperback. A study of the life and work of the lesbian writer, Jane Rule. Incorporating Rule's early work, including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan-mail, the book also draws on interviews and conversations with the author. Series: Passionate Communities. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814781333
ISBN
9780814781333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

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