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Literary studies: general

Paperback. What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. Editor(s): Young, Emma; Bailey, James. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474423175
ISBN
9781474423175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.67

hardcover. A survey of the literature of United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. Num Pages: 1263 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 69. Weight in Grams: 1970.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
1263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231058124
ISBN
9780231058124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.24
€ 133.27

Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349053
ISBN
9780820349053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Hardcover. Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137300492
ISBN
9781137300492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349051304
ISBN
9781349051304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.46

Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648869
ISBN
9781442648869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.79

Paperback. A compilation of Martinez Celaya's 2007-9 blog entries providing cultural commentary. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Whale & Star Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979975226
ISBN
9780979975226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.72

Hardcover. A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body of work as well as positioning Irish postcolonial criticism within the wider postcolonial field. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224063
ISBN
9780230224063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Paperback. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed. Editor(s): Costanzo, Angelo. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112626
ISBN
9781551112626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.86

Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530). Editor(s): Estes, James M. Translator(s): Fantazzi, Charles. Series: Collected Works of Erasmus. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 182 x 32. Weight in Grams: 930.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648784
ISBN
9781442648784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 185.36

paperback. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309863
ISBN
9781349309863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Hayot, Eric; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165211
ISBN
9780231165211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.63

Hardback. Editor(s): Hayot, Eric; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231165204
ISBN
9780231165204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.64
€ 80.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300043822
ISBN
9780300043822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.70

Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 352 pages, 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 271 x 2. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179768
ISBN
9780231179768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.77
€ 51.34

Hardcover. An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socratic education help Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the good, as a ruler? Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 354 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137333308
ISBN
9781137333308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Expanded
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216097
ISBN
9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Focuses on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. This work contains essays that consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on core themes of identity, sovereignty, and land. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231117647
ISBN
9780231117647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.93

Paperback. * Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how--to' guide to interpreting myth. * Introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteenth century to the present day. * Covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories of myth, structuralism, and ideological analysis. Series: Ancient Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631232483
ISBN
9780631232483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.02

Hardcover. Offers students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative. This title is both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth. It introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteenth century onwards. Series: Ancient Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631232476
ISBN
9780631232476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.72

Paperback. Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; AN; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118782880
ISBN
9781118782880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.43

Paperback. This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349346479
ISBN
9781349346479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228153
ISBN
9780230228153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. The Spiritual History of Ice explores the ecology of ice in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected context of the Romantic age but also the esoteric history and psychology of frozen phenomena. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619715
ISBN
9780230619715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.01

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