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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174404
ISBN
9780231174404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 51.27

Paperback. Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. This book examines the work of various writers to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926391
ISBN
9780813926391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99

Hardback. Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. This book examines the work of various writers to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926384
ISBN
9780813926384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.74

Hardcover. Editor(s): Salih, Sarah. Series: Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784376
ISBN
9780933784376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781496808646
ISBN
9781496808646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.62

Hardback. Series: Liber Primus. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781618114433
ISBN
9781618114433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.12

Paperback. Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, this book analyzes the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself. It also analyzes the ways authors and publishers carved up the field of literary production into a multitude of distinct submarkets. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558495418
ISBN
9781558495418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Hardcover. An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472118779
ISBN
9780472118779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.34

Hardback. Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843311140
ISBN
9781843311140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.27

Paperback. A leader of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools recounts the Little Rock integration crisis and Gov. Orval Fabus's closing of the local schools. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557285157
ISBN
9781557285157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.78

Hardcover. The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. This book reveals that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923130
ISBN
9780226923130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935898
ISBN
9780813935898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.86

paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 b&w photos, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816650262
ISBN
9780816650262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Paperback. Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal to anyone who wants to explore theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective. Editor(s): Bru, Sascha; De Bruyn, Ben; Delville, Michel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748699254
ISBN
9780748699254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; AN; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172264
ISBN
9780231172264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 51.30

Hardback. Satoru Saito examines the similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that interactions between the genres were critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided a framework through which to examine and critique Japan's literary formations and its modernizing society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674065864
ISBN
9780674065864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.21

Paperback. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the 'mainstream' canon and other 'minority' literatures? This book explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015415
ISBN
9780691015415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 42.55

Paperback. This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; 3JJ; BM; DSBH; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610755
ISBN
9780815610755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.64

Paperback. A collection which makes available to specialists and nonspecialists important work on the Odyssey. The ten essays in this work address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; and others. Editor(s): Schein, Seth L. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691044392
ISBN
9780691044392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 51.43

Paperback. This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1, b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 824.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623969
ISBN
9780748623969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.90

Hardback. The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639175
ISBN
9780748639175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 103.36

Hardcover. The essays collected here explore the power and sensuality that food engenders within literature. The book permits the reader to sample food as a rhetorical structure, one that allows the individual writers to articulate the abstract concepts in a medium that is readily understandable. " Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879724436
ISBN
9780879724436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.58

Paperback. Editor(s): Scholder, Amy. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802136718
ISBN
9780802136718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801957
ISBN
9780875801957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 48.96

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