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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Paperback. JG Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. This guide includes critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Editor(s): Baxter, Jeannette. Series: Continuum Critical Perspectives. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826497260
ISBN
9780826497260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223170
ISBN
9780812223170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.45

Paperback. Traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. This book assigns Wilde a place of honor in a company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and more. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113807
ISBN
9780691113807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the fortune a man can count on to last. This work studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. It addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114675
ISBN
9780691114675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696826
ISBN
9780816696826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900621359
ISBN
9781900621359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.51
€ 46.06

Hardback. Editor(s): Yarbrough, Robert; Stein, Robert. Series: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801026850
ISBN
9780801026850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.28
€ 40.67

Hardback. Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229857
ISBN
9780823229857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816669707
ISBN
9780816669707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231167680
ISBN
9780231167680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.79

Hardback. The first analysis in any language of China's recent epic novels about official corruption, this book explores how Chinese authors treat the theme of official malfeasance in mass-market thrillers, how those works reflect modern life, and how they approach the taboo subject of regime change. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754859
ISBN
9780804754859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.13

Paperback. A sweeping new work revealing Islam's influence on literary Romanticism, mapping the impact of Muslim sources on the West's most seminal authors, from J.W. Goethe to R.W. Emerson Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780745664
ISBN
9781780745664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.85

Paperback. The phenomenon of 'literary Chinatown' - the ghettoization of Chinese American literature - was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. This book examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987064
ISBN
9780295987064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DD; DSBH; DSG; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874134421
ISBN
9780874134421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.65

hardcover. This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey H. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 255 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1068.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PR United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199731497
ISBN
9780199731497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 232.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415871310
ISBN
9780415871310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.66

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134882
ISBN
9781571134882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.28

Paperback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 235 pages, 5 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ABA; 2ABC; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816632176
ISBN
9780816632176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816628551
ISBN
9780816628551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.36

Paperback. A study of death, via author comments, as it appears in the works of contemporary poets providing a Christian appreciation of it within a context of tradition and circumstances. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cowley Publications
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9781561012510
ISBN
9781561012510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.76

Paperback. The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology". This text provides a detailed study and an annotated translation of the anthology. Translator(s): Broughton, Jeffrey L. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318. The Earliest Records of Zen. 198 pages. The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology". This text provides a detailed study and an annotated translation of the anthology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; HREZ. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight: 284. Translator(s): Broughton, Jeffrey L.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219724
ISBN
9780520219724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.88

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134967
ISBN
9781571134967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 39.62

Hardback. Identifying sacramentalism as the key to the poetry and spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, this study suggests that Hopkins most dominantly emphasized the sacramental Mystical Body of the Church and that his poems aspire to see past the outscape of nature and humanity to revelations of spiritual inscape. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DCF; DSBF; DSC; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838751381
ISBN
9780838751381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.41

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Clairview Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905570799
ISBN
9781905570799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

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