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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist. He was fascinated with the potential of glass as a medium for expressionist architecture. This title describes Scheerbart's life, and explains the ways in which 'The Light Club of Batavia' inspired him to produce art of uncommon breadth. Num Pages: 104 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226514574
ISBN
9780226514574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. This book surveys Gunn's career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks. Editor(s): Weiner, Joshua. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226890449
ISBN
9780226890449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Series: Literature in History. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691090283
ISBN
9780691090283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.23
€ 105.41

Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319723
ISBN
9781846319723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.12

Hardback. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Editor(s): Mostow, Joshua S. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2G; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113144
ISBN
9780231113144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.79
€ 108.23

paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816647866
ISBN
9780816647866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816647859
ISBN
9780816647859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Hardcover. Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139108
ISBN
9781571139108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardback. Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HRKT; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240344
ISBN
9780812240344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.74

Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159232
ISBN
9780691159232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176369
ISBN
9780691176369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415239
ISBN
9781421415239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.45
€ 51.80

Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221277
ISBN
9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.93

Paperback. * An inspiring guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period. * Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more. Editor(s): Hendin, Josephine. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121804
ISBN
9781405121804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.09

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820311524
ISBN
9780820311524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.20

For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122342
ISBN
9780813122342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Guernica Editions,Canada Canada
Number of pages
350
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550716276
ISBN
9781550716276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.27

Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490046
ISBN
9781611490046
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 73 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; DSB; JFD; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784994150
ISBN
9781784994150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.08

Hardback. Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the 1970s, movements in literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist: scholars have developed techniques for analyzing culture but have retreated from attempts to transform it. For Joseph North, a genuinely interventionist criticism is a central task facing scholars on the Left today. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674967731
ISBN
9780674967731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.32

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