Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the densely layered stories. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451224
- ISBN
- 9781137451224
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€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Hardback. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, the essays in this book focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood and popular religion. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023932
- ISBN
- 9780674023932
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€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
Paperback. The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198323
- ISBN
- 9780141198323
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€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
paperback. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism. Translator(s): Parks, Tim; McLaughlin, Martin; Creagh, Patrick; Weaver, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189703
- ISBN
- 9780141189703
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€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 142 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772898384
- ISBN
- 9788772898384
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Promise, Ogochukwu. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956930798
- ISBN
- 9780956930798
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.23
€ 35.99
€ 29.23
Hardcover. The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento en la poesia espanola del siglo de oro Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662841
- ISBN
- 9781855662841
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Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. Here, Bjorklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the assumption that Sweden's progressive laws reflect progressive attitudes toward homosexuality." Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473625
- ISBN
- 9781349473625
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€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardback. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This work talks about this Ciceronian controversy. Editor(s): DellaNeva, JoAnn. Translator(s): Duvick, Brian. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025202
- ISBN
- 9780674025202
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.12
€ 40.99
€ 35.12
Paperback. Ireland's history of contested language systems has always been linked to its political realities; Language, Identity and Liberation attends to a movement of contemporary Irish writing that considers the significance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political history in portrayals of contemporary Ireland's everyday life and speech. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH; HBJD1; HBL; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349314898
- ISBN
- 9781349314898
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry. Editor(s): Martin, Joanna M. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 540 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 46. Weight in Grams: 828.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Scottish Text Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897976401
- ISBN
- 9781897976401
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 50.94
€ 52.99
€ 50.94
Hardback. First ever English translation of an important medieval German Arthurian romance, with facing original text. Editor(s): Sullivan, Joseph M. Translator(s): Sullivan, Joseph M. Series: Arthurian Archives. Num Pages: 376 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 37. Weight in Grams: 796.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844181
- ISBN
- 9781843844181
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Condition: New
€ 158.42
€ 158.42
Paperback. Focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, this is a collection of essays considering various forms the dissenters used for their critique. Editor(s): Walker, Julia M. Num Pages: 312 pages, 7. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822320746
- ISBN
- 9780822320746
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
"Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial." Christopher Howse, DAILY TELEGRAPH Editor(s): Ross, Jan. Series: Works of Thomas Traherne. Num Pages: 373 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 696.
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- New
- SKU
- V9781843843825
- ISBN
- 9781843843825
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Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JPFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845402372
- ISBN
- 9781845402372
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€ 25.98
€ 25.98
Paperback. The peculiar struggles of Canadian authors are writ large in the letters of Sinclair Ross. Editor(s): Stouck, Jordan, PhD; Stouck, David. Num Pages: 344 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888645210
- ISBN
- 9780888645210
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.43
€ 40.99
€ 29.43
Paperback. This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 311 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349440290
- ISBN
- 9781349440290
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land . Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349284399
- ISBN
- 9781349284399
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on J. G. Ballard by leading international academics, which includes a short biography, timeline and comprehensive guided further reading. Editor(s): Baxter, J. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325955
- ISBN
- 9781349325955
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methodsentailed in theidea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events.Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works." Editor(s): Davis, J. Num Pages: 271 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349294473
- ISBN
- 9781349294473
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. One of the most neglected areas of study in nineteenth-century theatre is pantomime: this book provides a comprehensive overview of pantomime in the Victorian period, ranging from the ideological positions perpetrated by pantomime to discussions of practitioners and enthusiastic spectators, such as E.L. Blanchard, Lewis Carroll and John Ruskin. Editor(s): Davis, J. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349307111
- ISBN
- 9781349307111
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
paperback. Editor(s): Dowson, J. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2003
- SKU
- V9781349724406
- ISBN
- 9781349724406
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Friedman, J. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289615
- ISBN
- 9781349289615
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism"-- Editor(s): Kelly, J. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324507
- ISBN
- 9781349324507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02