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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Paperback. "Fieldworks" offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817357320
ISBN
9780817357320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.55

Hardcover. This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of "carnivalisation" to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasises the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626657
ISBN
9780815626657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.11

Paperback. A unique A-Z reference work of over 3,100 entries spanning the length and breadth of classical literature. It ranges from detailed biographies of authors, overviews of myths and legends, and explanations of literary styles, to topical entries on the wider aspects of classical society, and on the literary works that shed light on them. Editor(s): Howatson, M. C. Series: Oxford Quick Reference. Num Pages: 640 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; DSRC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 127 x 38. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199548552
ISBN
9780199548552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.24

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662568
ISBN
9781855662568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.54

Hardback. Editor(s): Hirsch, Marianne; Miller, Nancy K. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150903
ISBN
9780231150903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776746469
ISBN
9788776746469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146746
ISBN
9780231146746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.06

Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism. It provides an overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveys their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. It considers a range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud's views on civilization. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
848
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631232001
ISBN
9780631232001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 301.37

Paperback. Includes an introduction providing historical, literary and cultural contexts for the poems. This book incorporates a revised and updated bibliography, minor changes to the text and glossary, and significant revision and updating of the explanatory notes. Editor(s): Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 383 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
383
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
5th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897914
ISBN
9780859897914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.15

Hardcover. Throughout, the work takes full account of developments in stage history which have altered thinking about Shakespeare's stage. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Weight in Grams: 47. Fine in fine cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing age and shelfwear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0029147
ISBN
9780521212557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as sensation fiction. Series: Broadview Literary Texts. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551111230
ISBN
9781551111230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 28.62

Hardcover. Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality. Editor(s): Edwards, M. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685279
ISBN
9780856685279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.97

paperback. "The first modern study of the Romantic achievement, its origins and evolution both in theory and practice."-Stuart M. Sperry, Jr., Indiana Unviersity Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0035952
ISBN
9780393006094
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

Hardcover. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. Fine in fine dustjacket
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
AIAA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
SKU
KTJ0049487
ISBN
9780333918845
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 25.00

Hardback. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198140597
ISBN
9780198140597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.46

Hardcover. This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. Editor(s): Dien, Mawal Izzi. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094334
ISBN
9780906094334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.48
€ 107.41

Paperback. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816612284
ISBN
9780816612284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.95

Hardcover. Editor(s): Lipovetsky, Mark; Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235407
ISBN
9781936235407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.85

Paperback. Offers insights into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels. Series Editor(s): Butler, Marilyn; Chandler, James. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HBJD; HBLL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521021265
ISBN
9780521021265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Halleran, Michael R. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682414
ISBN
9780856682414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.39

Hardcover. Text with translation and commentary. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856684678
ISBN
9780856684678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.97

Hardback. This analysis aims to show how the greatest romance stories of medieval Europe contain the seeds of later versions of tragedy, and the stress this put upon the literary form and ideological function of the romance. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722902
ISBN
9780804722902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.73

Paperback. The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 Colour and 8 Black and white. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708326138
ISBN
9780708326138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.37

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSB; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636771
ISBN
9780691636771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.02

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