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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926704
ISBN
9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.25

Paperback. Series: Reading Hemingway. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606352397
ISBN
9781606352397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Hardback. Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45, 16 colour, 29 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842804
ISBN
9781843842804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.98

Paperback. Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. It also provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402354
ISBN
9781474402354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.19

Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748676293
ISBN
9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.28
€ 108.92

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931968
ISBN
9780813931968
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.10

hardcover. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730907
ISBN
9780804730907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Repeater
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910924389
ISBN
9781910924389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146708
ISBN
9780231146708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 31. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173290
ISBN
9780691173290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.63

Hardback. Here, Mark Knight offers an analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age. Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223091
ISBN
9780823223091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.95

Hardback. Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AN; DSBD; HBTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783272037
ISBN
9781783272037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.65

Hardback. The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century.The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Translator(s): Brougher, Valentina; Miller, Frank; Lipovetsky, Mark. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 800 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DQ; DSBH; FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1814.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
800
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235148
ISBN
9781936235148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.95

Paperback. Offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. Num Pages: 480 pages, 9 halftones, 13 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062092
ISBN
9780674062092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.84

Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759120945
ISBN
9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.13

Hardback. Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy in illustrated covers with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004414
ISBN
9780230574656
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853994883
ISBN
9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474405324
ISBN
9781474405324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Hardcover. A dissection of 20th century author W.G. Sebald's fiction and his acclaim. It investigates his universal appeal and explores themes, issues, and influences that dominate the writer's oeuvre. It also considers his career in the German speaking and English speaking worlds. Series: Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570035067
ISBN
9781570035067
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631455
ISBN
9780691631455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.76

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