Literary studies: general
Results 1921 - 1944 of 10311
Literary studies: general
Hardback. A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. Num Pages: 260 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844020
- ISBN
- 9781843844020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
hardcover. Lists references to critical and interpretive studies os the literary output of 169 major and minor Hispanic South American women writers active from the turn of the twentieth century to 1989. Num Pages: 156 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810822634
- ISBN
- 9780810822634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.55
€ 91.55
Paperback. The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials. Translator(s): Edwards, Cyril. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3H; AVGC; AVH; DCF; DSBB; FQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199238545
- ISBN
- 9780199238545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.68
€ 16.99
€ 15.68
Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326694
- ISBN
- 9780822326694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. A survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Num Pages: 570 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 570
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520044777
- ISBN
- 9780520044777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Hardback. First modern critical edition of one of the most important and popular texts on the Crusades to survive. Editor(s): Kempf, D.; Bull, M. G. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 1 black and white, 1 lin. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; HBJF1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838081
- ISBN
- 9781843838081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.69
€ 97.69
Paperback. This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Editor(s): Russell, D. A.; Winterbottom, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549818
- ISBN
- 9780199549818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. George Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Including interviews with friends and people who knew him in his years of obscurity, this book offers a human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPR; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 40. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283461
- ISBN
- 9780099283461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and more, this book explores the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 261 x 2. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099556077
- ISBN
- 9780099556077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jasper, David; Youzhuang, Geng; Wang, Hai. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CFP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781481304184
- ISBN
- 9781481304184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.91
€ 98.91
Hardcover. Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation - convergence and divergence - with ideas of the Archaic Period. Editor(s): Cairns, D. L. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125579
- ISBN
- 9781905125579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.96
€ 79.96
Hardback. A volume that gathers critical perspectives on Shaw's feminism and the contradictions therein. Editor(s): Hadfield, D. A.; Reynolds, Jean. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813042435
- ISBN
- 9780813042435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.42
€ 119.42
Paperback. The Austen heroine must suppress her wit to become the one and not the other, to become, that is, a person fit to be tied in a conjugal knot. But for herself, Austen refuses personhood, with all its constraints and needs, and disappears into the sourceless anonymity of her style. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123875
- ISBN
- 9780691123875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Hardcover. In this study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740354
- ISBN
- 9780333740354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.71€ 81.13
€ 130.71
€ 81.13
Hardback. It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences. Editor(s): Coleman, Deirdre; Fraser, Hilary. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284678
- ISBN
- 9780230284678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44
Paperback. Ovid's Metamorphosis is a work which displays his mature genius and is a treasure house of mythology. This volume continues in the same style as books I-IV, V-VIII; with a line by line translation and notes which trace Ovid's sources and his influence on literature and art. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, text, translation, commentary. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856686467
- ISBN
- 9780856686467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.94
€ 34.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. In these impressions of the Italian countryside: "Twilight in Italy", "Sea and Sardina", and "Etruscan Places", the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Editor(s): Squires, Michael. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441559
- ISBN
- 9780141441559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.91
€ 19.99
€ 14.91
Paperback. Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. This title includes essays that exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140183771
- ISBN
- 9780140183771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780769653
- ISBN
- 9781780769653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.57
€ 15.99
€ 12.57
Paperback. This 1989 edition of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow gives the composition history and collates the surviving states of the text. Editor(s): Kinkead-Weekes, Mark. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. Num Pages: 750 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 51. Weight in Grams: 974.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 750
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107561489
- ISBN
- 9781107561489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.07
€ 42.07
Paperback. The fourteen stories collected in this volume were written between 1913 and 1921. Editor(s): Steele, Bruce. Series Editor(s): Boulton, James T.; Black, Michael; Vasey, Lindeth; Worthen, John. Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 43.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521358149
- ISBN
- 9780521358149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.33
€ 70.33
hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226329659
- ISBN
- 9780226329659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 79.17
€ 95.07
€ 79.17
Hardcover. Although often embroiled in controversy and public debate, Spender's all consuming passion was literature. This is a serious literary biography which quotes extensively from Spender's writing and shows its relationship to the major political and social events with which Spender became involved. Num Pages: 350 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 644. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016490
- ISBN
- 9780715629482
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Addresses the political aspects of fifth-century Athenian tragedies, setting them in their immediate historical context. This book sets out to elucidate to a student and general audience how and why Athenian tragedy should be read as a political art form. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. Num Pages: 136 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675501
- ISBN
- 9781904675501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.96
€ 188.96