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Literary studies: general

Hardback. A study that investigates the poetics and thematics of the Silla sequence, uncovering what is known about the actual historical event and the assumptions and concerns that guided its re-creation as a literary artifact and then helped shape its reception among contemporary readers. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; CJB; DCF; DSB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053304
ISBN
9780674053304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.71
€ 54.76

Hardcover. This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and neglected texts from a range of later historical periods. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137411303
ISBN
9781137411303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.00

Paperback. Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349344772
ISBN
9781349344772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Offering a challenge to the Blake establishment, this text places some of Blake's early prophetic works in new historical contexts. The book shows what can be achieved when feminist historicism is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1997th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333640364
ISBN
9780333640364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJM; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485109
ISBN
9781349485109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613). Previous criticism focused concentrated on this and The History of Edward II, this volume incorporates critical and historical analyses of other genres too. Editor(s): Wolfe, H. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531752
ISBN
9781349531752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

Paperback. Characterizes Fielding's personality and details ways in which Fielding's attitudes contribute to the subject matter of his plays and novels and to the rhetorical strategies that control their shape as well. The book shows that his work as lawyer, magistrate, and essayist was similarly informed. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633236
ISBN
9780333633236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.88

Hardcover. Contains readings of nineteenth-century Irish women's prose works by various international scholars. This book looks at writers who have been ignored in Irish Studies and they draw attention to women's contributions to literary genres commonly associated with male writers. It examines prose writing that does not fit the usual categories. Editor(s): Hansson, Heidi. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184165
ISBN
9781859184165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945. Editor(s): Finch, Helen; Wolff, Lynn L. Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 332 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135896
ISBN
9781571135896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349430468
ISBN
9781349430468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.97

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719089381
ISBN
9780719089381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.17

paperback. Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1987
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349085521
ISBN
9781349085521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.48

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907975578
ISBN
9781907975578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.15
€ 56.91

Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 900.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646032
ISBN
9781442646032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Hardcover. Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War presents a new cultural history of Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, examining the often-neglected period before the onset of the Troubles and exploring work by the generation of artists and writers that preceded Seamus Heaney and his contemporaries. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198716853
ISBN
9780198716853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.55

Hardcover. Drawing on a range of material from archives in the US and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. It explores "progressivism", "primitivism" and "Americanization" in such novels as "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers!". Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634516
ISBN
9780333634516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

Paperback. Takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante's underworld circle by circle - from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell - in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed in their infernal descent. Each chapter of this book begins with a summary of the action, followed by entries, significant verses, and useful study questions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 212 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226702681
ISBN
9780226702681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. A guide to the "Divine Comedy" that provides readers with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise. It charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 177 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
35878th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226702704
ISBN
9780226702704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.84

Hardcover. Queer Commodities is the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340497
ISBN
9780230340497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Amirthanayagam, Guy. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349049455
ISBN
9781349049455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.40

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