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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895385
ISBN
9780859895385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.73

Paperback. Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; DSB; DSK; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 157.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190614546
ISBN
9780190614546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.87

Paperback. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442627079
ISBN
9781442627079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.50

hardcover. Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649743
ISBN
9781442649743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

Hardcover. Through well-documented case studies this volume showcases the multifaceted relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective in Eastern Europe. Editor(s): Mitroiu, Simona. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137485519
ISBN
9781137485519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816649969
ISBN
9780816649969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Translator(s): Kirkup, James. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185330
ISBN
9780141185330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. The publication of de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre caused a storm of controversy in Paris in 1990. Frank and uncensored, they show her experimenting with her freedom within her love for Sartre, and trace the emotional and triangular complications of her life with him. Editor(s): Hoare, Quintin. Translator(s): Hoare, Quintin. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099914907
ISBN
9780099914907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
TRA
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590171455
ISBN
9781590171455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.86

Hardcover. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137541321
ISBN
9781137541321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.79

Paperback. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFF; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297078
ISBN
9781349297078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115934
ISBN
9780230115934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.45

paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st
SKU
V9780312400378
ISBN
9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Hardcover. Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place of religion and spirituality in the world. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135490
ISBN
9781571135490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.02

This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990's in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. Series Editor(s): Monteith, Sharon; Yousaf, Nahem. Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719082290
ISBN
9780719082290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.99

Paperback. It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices. Editor(s): Singer, Alan; Dunn, Allen. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631208693
ISBN
9780631208693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.98

Paperback. This guide provides a detailed introduction to each of the major Renaissance literary genres and key Renaissance texts and authors. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625840
ISBN
9780748625840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSK; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319342030
ISBN
9783319342030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback. A portrait of the bond between a mother and her son, and the capturing of a moment in time before the loss of childhood innocence. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571228041
ISBN
9780571228041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859). Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236657
ISBN
9780571236657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Hardback. A dedication to Stephen Spender, who in 1932 wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. It provides a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in a autobiographical form. Editor(s): Feigel, Lara; Sutherland, John. Num Pages: 816 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1050. T
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571237579
ISBN
9780571237579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.59
€ 6.75

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 272 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; APFA; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231181921
ISBN
9780231181921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.93

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393974645
ISBN
9780393974645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.69

Hardback. The most haunting and Shakespearean of Scott's novels, The Bride of Lammermoor is a fast-paced tragedy set on the eve of the 1707 Union. Editor(s): Alexander, J.H. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 560 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605712
ISBN
9780748605712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.71

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