Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Drawing on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, this book reveals that the style of Kepler's magnum opus, "Astronomia nova" (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 halftone, 15 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; PGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691007380
- ISBN
- 9780691007380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.33€ 88.23
€ 122.33
€ 88.23
Hardback. Series: Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies S. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AJKR; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Association for Armenian Studies & Research United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780935411225
- ISBN
- 9780935411225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.34
€ 44.99
€ 37.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470666
- ISBN
- 9781611470666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.36
€ 121.36
Paperback. Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035229
- ISBN
- 9780472035229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.37
€ 45.37
Paperback. Reveals a new dimension of Dickinson's writing and thinking, one indicating that she was thoroughly familiar with the legal community's idiomatic language, actively engaged with contemporary political and ethical questions, and skilled at deploying a poetic register ranging from high romanticism to low humor. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625341136
- ISBN
- 9781625341136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.41
€ 30.99
€ 26.41
In this contribution to Emily Dickinson biography and criticism, the author demonstrates how the poet's optical disease - strabismus, a deviation of the cornea - directly affected her subject matter, her poetic method, and indeed her sense of her own identity. Num Pages: 211 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813015491
- ISBN
- 9780813015491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.91€ 64.13
€ 69.91
€ 64.13
Hardcover. A study of violence in eight contemporary American urban novels, including William Kennedy's "Quinn's Book". James R. Giles shows how these works, published between 1968 and 1994, convey a sense of violence as an epidemic, threatening to extinguish the aspirations of American citizens. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570033285
- ISBN
- 9781570033285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Hardcover. In examining the four novels and one collection of short stories by Hubert Selby Jr, this author argues that the full complexity of his fiction has not previously been understood. It contends that Selby's writings, represent an innovative merger of two narrative modes. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570031762
- ISBN
- 9781570031762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.69
€ 46.99
€ 39.69
Paperback. Explores the venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period. Extending from central London to the outskirts of Glasgow, the book pursues a "devolving" landscape, to consider what an analysis of "dwelling" might contribute to the theories of diaspora discourse. Num Pages: 234 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719060540
- ISBN
- 9780719060540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.62
€ 38.62
Hardcover. This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230670
- ISBN
- 9780631230670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.26
€ 90.26
Hardcover. The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. * Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field * Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Editor(s): Phelan, James; Rabinowitz, Peter J. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 592 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 186 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405114769
- ISBN
- 9781405114769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 209.75
€ 209.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342. A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. 256 pages. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight: 342.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489280
- ISBN
- 9780801489280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.69
€ 36.99
€ 33.69
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754511
- ISBN
- 9780838754511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.19
€ 126.19
Paperback. A cultural history of macho criticism Num Pages: 318 pages, 11 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222510
- ISBN
- 9780253222510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.16
€ 31.99
€ 29.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739101520
- ISBN
- 9780739101520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.52
€ 117.52
Hardback. This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526101105
- ISBN
- 9781526101105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.86
€ 57.86
Hardcover. These essays treat the use of Ovidian themes, texts and tropes in medieval Latin, Old French and in the writings of Boccaccio and Chaucer. They address the social and rhetorical construction of desire in amatory literature while they investigate the usage and value of contemporary critical theory. Editor(s): Paxson, James J.; Gravlee, Cynthia A. Num Pages: 239 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910130
- ISBN
- 9781575910130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.89
€ 117.89
Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621107
- ISBN
- 9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.54
€ 64.54
Hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572333185
- ISBN
- 9781572333185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.57
€ 45.99
€ 38.57
Paperback. Examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analysing four novels by German, British, and American writers. James P. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Compartive Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537317
- ISBN
- 9781557537317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.58
€ 50.99
€ 42.58