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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Victorian sensation novels, with their plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyzes the novels and the magazines in which they were serialized, highlighting how novels and magazines worked together to engage in cultural and social debates of the period. Num Pages: 202 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333776667
ISBN
9780333776667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639588
ISBN
9780816639588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631131
ISBN
9780816631131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486357
ISBN
9780801486357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.95

Hardcover. This study traces the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilized the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBH; DSK; FL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Publishers, Limited
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333741580
ISBN
9780333741580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.21

Hardcover. Editor(s): Andrist, Debra D. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198367
ISBN
9781845198367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.03

paperback. Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; AC; DSBH; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343103
ISBN
9780822343103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Bringing together a wealth of material with clear critical commentary, Debra J. Rosenthal offers the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to study this crucial American novel. Editor(s): Rosenthal, Debra J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415234740
ISBN
9780415234740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.85

Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135940
ISBN
9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926810
ISBN
9780813926810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.37

Hardback. The position of what can be known, or, what cannot be known is foundational to one of the pivotal readings of modernism. Saying that these narratives - the thinking of what constitutes truth and the rethinking of gender - are intertwined, this book suggests that where there is a crisis in knowing, there is also a crisis in gender. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911069
ISBN
9781575911069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.35

Paperback. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; DSBH; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349494316
ISBN
9781349494316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571242559
ISBN
9780571242559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. A critical history of modern Irish literature. Kiberd develops his story through subtle readings of such writers as Joyce, O'Casey, Beckett and Bowen. Giving a controversial interpretation of post-colonial Ireland, he then surveys more recent works, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2CSJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 48. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099582212
ISBN
9780099582212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781786693228
ISBN
9781786693228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333383537
ISBN
9780333383537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.29

Paperback. Shows that J.M. Synge's command of Irish was extensive, and that this knowledge proved invaluable in the writing of his major plays. This reappraisal of Synge's achievement draws on his unpublished papers in the Irish language. The author reveals Synge's indebtedness to the Gaelic tradition. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604823
ISBN
9780333604823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardcover. This work includes an analysis of Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation and considers Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312240141
ISBN
9780312240141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349387199
ISBN
9781349387199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSB; HPDF; HRE; HRG; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231133999
ISBN
9780231133999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.39

Hardcover. Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase "the love of literature" as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
y First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226183701
ISBN
9780226183701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.22
€ 78.69

Hardcover. This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous relationship with Dylan Thomas, to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C. P. Snow. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198729617
ISBN
9780198729617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.67

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198704492
ISBN
9780198704492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781316504802
ISBN
9781316504802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.65

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