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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Matthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (1837-1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 263 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674425224
ISBN
9780674425224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.32
€ 59.21

Hardback. Editor(s): Kochis, Matthew J.; Lusty, Heather L. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813060477
ISBN
9780813060477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Matthew J.; Duncan, Randy. Num Pages: 328 pages, 65 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AKLC1; DSB; FZG; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415885553
ISBN
9780415885553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; PSAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490220
ISBN
9781611490220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; HBTB; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Non Basic Stock Line
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904955757
ISBN
9781904955757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.69

The World in Play tells the story of how certain Victorian literary misfits--working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Bronte, free-spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde, among others--struggled to find their bearings in a modern world trapped, like Alice, in play, in a ludic microcosm of itself. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776080
ISBN
9780804776080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.97

Hardback. An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and the way he treats politics. Series: Publications of the John Gower Society. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843399
ISBN
9781843843399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.37

Paperback. John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature. Three classic works published by Newbery (the authors unknown) are now available for a new generation of readers. Edited by M. O. Grenby, with an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading. Editor(s): Grenby, Matthew O. Series: Classics of Children's Literature. Num Pages: 280 pages, 100 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSY; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274274
ISBN
9781137274274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.68

Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240153
ISBN
9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.56

Paperback. The term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original. A multidisciplinary study of a term returning to the forefront of contemporary theory, this is a guide for readers in such fields as literature, performance and cultural studies. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415700306
ISBN
9780415700306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

Hardcover. Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Matthew Rubery uncovers this story, from Edison to today's billion-dollar audiobook industry, and breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctive art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read. Num Pages: 360 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 253 x 34. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674545441
ISBN
9780674545441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.81

Surveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801884344
ISBN
9780801884344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.33

Hardback. "A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."-Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239713
ISBN
9780812239713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. While the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces are again at work in today's fracturing literary market. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420875
ISBN
9781421420875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.28

Hardback. This is the first book-length biography of Tudor writer, soldier, and courtier Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604), a figure well-known yet long neglected in early modern studies, who lived, wrote, and fought under five different monarchs and enjoyed an unrivalled fifty-year literary career. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 black-and-white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3JB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 704.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199684304
ISBN
9780199684304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472567758
ISBN
9781472567758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.01

Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 980.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784352
ISBN
9780933784352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134615
ISBN
9781571134615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 42.03

Hardback. This work explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312223502
ISBN
9780312223502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.75

Paperback. Examines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691296
ISBN
9780748691296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.19

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