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Literary studies: general

Paperback. A comprehensive study of African American war literature, this title analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the US military in 1948. It argues that the very ambivalence over the use of violence as a political instrument defines African American war writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807858073
ISBN
9780807858073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.04
€ 46.67

Paperback. "ReCalling Early Canada" is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. Editor(s): Blair, Jennifer; Coleman, Daniel; Higginson, Kate; York, Lorraine M. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644435
ISBN
9780888644435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Irish Academic Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780716532903
ISBN
9780716532903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.29

Hardback. Drawing on the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the spelling system of Older and Modern Scots, illustrating how this orthographic system has developed partly in response to historical shifts in pronunciation, and partly as a result of social and political change. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 black and white line art. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; CFF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643059
ISBN
9780748643059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.86
€ 100.72

Hardback. Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758246
ISBN
9780804758246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.71

Hardback. In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223602
ISBN
9780823223602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.91

Paperback. Including Heidegger's nationalist valorization of the German language and sense of nationhood, or Heimat, the author argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in Hlderlin's poetics, such as a Kantian understanding of aesthetic subjectivity and a commitment to Enlightenment ideals. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223619
ISBN
9780823223619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.90

Hardback. This book is a genre history that traces the second life, in the nineteenth century, of a poetic form that had enjoyed its original heyday three hundred years earlier. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838636305
ISBN
9780838636305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.89

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570709
ISBN
9780813570709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.13

Paperback. Examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. This work includes essays that draw on an array of documentary evidence - such as library catalogs and prefaces - to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Editor(s): Andersen, Jennifer; Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217940
ISBN
9780812217940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.63

Hardcover. Editor(s): Palmgren, Jennifer A.; Holloway, Lorretta M. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967350
ISBN
9781403967350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Paperback / so. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813562971
ISBN
9780813562971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.36

Hardcover. Offers a study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. This title provides the study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. It challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from English Renaissance literature. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748655908
ISBN
9780748655908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.84

Hardcover. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403948472
ISBN
9781403948472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.44

Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays that collectively seek to re-vision the Beats from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293796
ISBN
9780312293796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Paperback. A scene-by-scene reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 354. A Reader's Guide. 216 pages. A scene-by-scene reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight: 354.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521138765
ISBN
9780521138765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.19

Paperback. A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349327478
ISBN
9781349327478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Adams, Jenni; Vice, Sue. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853039594
ISBN
9780853039594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.32

Hardcover. A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties of Holocaust fiction. Exploring texts by such writers as D.M. Thomas and Markus Zusak it will appeal to scholars and students of Holocaust literature, magic realism, and contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230280298
ISBN
9780230280298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.82

Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644097
ISBN
9780691644097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.48

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