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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. Editor(s): Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB; HPK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 308. An Essay on Free Will. 264 pages. Editor(s): Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen. Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB; HPK; HPL. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight: 308.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151573
- ISBN
- 9780231151573
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.90
€ 21.99
€ 17.90
Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237542
- ISBN
- 9780812237542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.95
€ 76.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932589351
- ISBN
- 9781932589351
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Condition: New
€ 37.37
€ 37.37
hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 591. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033943
- ISBN
- 9780195327328
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Paperback. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897122
- ISBN
- 9780801897122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.27
€ 43.99
€ 37.27
Hardback. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. Num Pages: 424 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897115
- ISBN
- 9780801897115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.50
€ 90.50
Hardback. Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AVGJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123578
- ISBN
- 9780691123578
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Condition: New
€ 64.61€ 51.27
€ 64.61
€ 51.27
Paperback. Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered in unexamined ways in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere. Editor(s): Davidson, Cathy N.; Hatcher, Jessamyn. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328933
- ISBN
- 9780822328933
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
Paperback. Series: Focus on. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 50
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075293
- ISBN
- 9781906075293
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Contemporary American Poetry: A Checklist-Second Series, 1973-1983
Davis, Lloyd. Ed(S): Irwin, Robert
hardcover. Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983. Editor(s): Irwin, Robert. Num Pages: 301 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780810818293
- ISBN
- 9780810818293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.70
€ 118.70
Paperback. Staging a dialogue between Maryse Conde's novels and the field of postcolonial studies, this work argues that Conde enacts a strategy of "critical incorporations" in her fiction, imitating and transforming many of the prevailing narratives of postcolonial theory so as to explore their theoretical and conceptual limits. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927152
- ISBN
- 9780813927152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.60
€ 40.60
Paperback. In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton blossomed into a world-famous poet. Orne audiotaped her last years of therapy and it is these tapes which are the focus of this book. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; MMJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415887472
- ISBN
- 9780415887472
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 53.67
€ 53.99
€ 53.67
Paperback. Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 illustrations, 2 charts, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855317
- ISBN
- 9780807855317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.72
€ 49.72
Hardcover. Dealing with both adult and child aspects of Hans Christian Andersen's texts, this volume, consisting of papers read at the Odense Conference in 2005, endeavours to do justice to the whole of Andersen, whose immortal genius has a message for young and old all over the world. Editor(s): Mylius, Johan De; Jorgensen, Aage; Pedersen, Viggo Hjornager. Num Pages: 639 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 181 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 639
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776742560
- ISBN
- 9788776742560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.27
€ 41.99
€ 30.27
Paperback. The Epic Hero provides a comprehensive and provocative guide to epic heroes, and to the richly imaginative tales they inhabit. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870941
- ISBN
- 9780801870941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.79
€ 53.79
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801450877
- ISBN
- 9780801450877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.05
€ 68.05
Paperback. This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political events that shaped the period, and detailed explanations of the scientific, medical, and biblical references that appear in the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Num Pages: 512 pages, 62 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780805066159
- ISBN
- 9780805066159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.09
€ 26.99
€ 23.09
Paperback. This guide to navigating Patrick O'Brian's well loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with chapters devoted to the final books in the series. It contains maps created exclusively for each of the novels in this world-renowned series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43 b&w illustrations, 56 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780805066142
- ISBN
- 9780805066142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.98
€ 27.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. An investigation of English writing in seventeenth-century Ireland, and its connections to Shakespeare, Sidney and Milton. Num Pages: 310 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635. Fine in fine dust wrapper, showing light shelf and reading wear. Remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0024930
- ISBN
- 9780521843027
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 30.00
€ 30.00
Paperback. Combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed light on the stories, and folk roots. This book examines ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories that arose from these beliefs. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292725089
- ISBN
- 9780292725089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.96
€ 20.99
€ 20.96