Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new "mother tongue" - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; CFB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025540
- ISBN
- 9780268025540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Hardcover. Editor(s): Grund, Gary R. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 203 x 30. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017443
- ISBN
- 9780674017443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.11
€ 40.99
€ 34.11
Hardback. A study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. It examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ideological agendas of each writer. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759526
- ISBN
- 9780804759526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.23
€ 82.23
paperback. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- y First printing
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226541334
- ISBN
- 9780226541334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.98
€ 19.99
€ 16.98
Paperback. Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3488 x 32. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718226
- ISBN
- 9780804718226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
hardcover. In clear and witty writing, Morson offers first serious study of the many kinds of aphorisms, their relation to longer works, and the philosophical wisdom they offer. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804780513
- ISBN
- 9780804780513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.48
€ 119.48
Hardback. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices. Raised among luminaries such as Thoreau, Emerson, and the Beecher family, Julian became a promising novelist in his twenties, but his writing soon devolved into mediocrity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038341
- ISBN
- 9780252038341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.09
€ 40.09
Hardback. Approximately 2600 entries, including reviews, news reports, a selection of obituaries, and reviews of all 19th-century book-length studies of Hawthorne's life and literary career. Series: The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810821842
- ISBN
- 9780810821842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.31
€ 148.31
Hardcover. In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. This is Hannah Adam's biography, which focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adams's reading and her own literary work. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press Virginia
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922720
- ISBN
- 9780813922720
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Condition: New
€ 80.10
€ 80.10
Hardback. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 40. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403960719
- ISBN
- 9781403960719
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Condition: New
€ 152.50
€ 152.50
Hardback. This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology. This major work in attribution studies presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Egan, Gabriel. Num Pages: 776 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 182 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1618.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199591169
- ISBN
- 9780199591169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 318.41
€ 318.41
Hardcover. This is a collection of critical essays on Ramsey Campbell, author of several award-winning stories and novels in the fields of fantasy and horror, including To Wake the Dead, Incarnate, and Grin of the Dark. Editor(s): Crawford, Gary William. Series: Studies in Supernatural Literature. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810892972
- ISBN
- 9780810892972
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Condition: New
€ 163.45
€ 163.45
Paperback. Contains nine short stories painting an array of locals caught up in failed dreams of financial success and romantic fulfilment. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985275
- ISBN
- 9780295985275
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.76
€ 20.99
€ 20.76
Hardcover. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. Editor(s): Honings, Rick; Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 282 pages, 30 full color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089649638
- ISBN
- 9789089649638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.59
€ 148.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164542
- ISBN
- 9780231164542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 51.25
€ 64.77
€ 51.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 2BM; DSB; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164559
- ISBN
- 9780231164559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.76
€ 36.99
€ 27.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171694
- ISBN
- 9780231171694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.39
€ 36.99
€ 27.39
Hardback. This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Keulks, Gavin. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008304
- ISBN
- 9780230008304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. Includes George Puttenham's "Art of English Poesy", Samuel Daniel's "Defense of Rhyme", and passages by writers such as Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and George Gascoigne. Editor(s): Alexander, Gavin. Num Pages: 544 pages, glossary, chronology, bibliography, notes. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439389
- ISBN
- 9780141439389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Hardcover. This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238466
- ISBN
- 9780230238466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback. This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349315642
- ISBN
- 9781349315642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576-1642 looks at London theater at the time of Shakespeare and how it represented the New World, considering whether early modern drama was anti-American, as some contemporaries suggested. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734321
- ISBN
- 9780198734321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.64
€ 164.64
Paperback. Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143316
- ISBN
- 9780691143316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.85
€ 42.99
€ 30.85
Hardback. The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. Editor(s): Gavin, Dr. Adrienne. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348271
- ISBN
- 9780230348271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.98€ 67.65
€ 105.98
€ 67.65