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Paperback. Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1, 1 black and white. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. 208 pages, 1, 1 black and white. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant. Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 2AB; DSBH5. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 15. Weight: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010629
ISBN
9781847010629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.36

Hardback. This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical terrain of Couto's literary thought. Editor(s): Hamilton, Grant; Huddart, David. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 2ADP; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011459
ISBN
9781847011459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.50

Hardback. From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this book presents the literature and culture of the American South. It includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region. It explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Huston. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; DSB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 186 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631224044
ISBN
9780631224044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.44

Paperback. From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163699
ISBN
9781405163699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.73

paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGA; DSA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816626076
ISBN
9780816626076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.45

Hardback. Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sought to dominate the ideological contours of that history through the patronage or exile of writers. Editor(s): Green, Nile; Arbabzadah, Nushin. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 2BXL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849042048
ISBN
9781849042048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.44

Paperback. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764541865
ISBN
9780764541865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.80

paperback. Written by some of the best-known and distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative text provides the most up-to-date scholarship on his writings available today. Read together, the chapters of this Companion map the direction of contemporary James studies. Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 792.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Publication date
2014
SKU
V9781118492345
ISBN
9781118492345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.61

Paperback. This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide readers with a sense of the breadth and depth of dramatic activity in Britain in these years. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
648
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217275
ISBN
9780631217275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.78

Paperback. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 1544 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 179 x 81. Weight in Grams: 2652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
1544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470674864
ISBN
9780470674864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.63

Hardback. This anthology of drama in English contains plays from the late 14th century to the onset of the Renaissance. It brings together selections from all the major dramatic genres to provide readers with a sense of the breadth and depth of dramatic activity in Britain in these years. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DQ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 189 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217268
ISBN
9780631217268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172469
ISBN
9781590172469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.00

Hardback. This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124607
ISBN
9780231124607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.97
€ 61.03

Paperback. Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries. This critical edition of the Cuculain legend offers a concise, abridged version of the central story in History of Ireland. Editor(s): Castle, Gregory; Bixby, Patrick. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSRC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815634775
ISBN
9780815634775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Claeys, Gregory; Sargent, Lyman Tower. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 816.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479837076
ISBN
9781479837076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.10

Hardcover. Editor(s): Claeys, Gregory; Sargent, Lyman Tower. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 957.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479864652
ISBN
9781479864652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.88

Paperback. Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. This book weaves an argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. It will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; AVGJ; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226218212
ISBN
9780226218212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.56

Hardcover. This study of the construction of intellectual authority examines the impact of Thucydides's "History". It argues that Thucydides's work succeeded for two main reasons: he refined the language of administration, and drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric that arose in the 5th century. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780847681297
ISBN
9780847681297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.17

Hardcover. A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels. 358 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609803490
ISBN
9781609803490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.50

Paperback. American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes. This book argues that such novels are in fact psychologically complex and sophisticated works which demand that readers take responsibility for the images of masculinity that they project on to these works. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726914
ISBN
9780814726914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.63

Hardback. The displacement in science of positivist notions of observation by a realist model of knowledge provided inspiration for Japanese writers. This work looks at the ideological incarnations of scientific realism in modernist works. It focuses on the struggle of science and art to reclaim the invisible as an object of representation and belief. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027947
ISBN
9780674027947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.43

Paperback. Considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book draws on social theorists such as Kant, Weber, Simmel, and Elias to explore the connection between social and literary form. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268031060
ISBN
9780268031060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.95

hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780761820130
ISBN
9780761820130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.75

Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768764
ISBN
9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.93

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