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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Reading iconic postwar novels such as Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye together with the rational decision-making of game theory, Wainwright demonstrates the contribution of mathematical models to literary interpretation. The interdisciplinary approach of this book elucidates our understanding of postwar American literature. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137590541
ISBN
9781137590541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.80

Hardback. This pioneering study applies game theory to a selection of minoritarian texts from the American canon. Concentrating on rational decision making, the discussion introduces the most common social dilemmas such as the Stag Hunt and the Prisoner's Dilemma as a means of interpreting works by writers such as Douglass, Hurston, and Morrison. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137590558
ISBN
9781137590558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH; DSY; FQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199738700
ISBN
9780199738700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.88

paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1979
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349039050
ISBN
9781349039050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.64

Hardcover. Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain in the years leading to the Revolution. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604681
ISBN
9780230604681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of William Wordsworth's poetry and prose, combining literature, sociology, and geography, in which the author seeks to demonstrate Wordsworth's participation in the major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333718902
ISBN
9780333718902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349182879
ISBN
9781349182879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.01

Hardback. This work chronicles the narrative transformation of accident from a philosophical dead end to an astonishing occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735568
ISBN
9780804735568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

hardcover. Editor(s): Witzel, Michael. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 330 pages, 38 colour plates, 39 halftones & 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 186 x 24. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Edition
Critical
SKU
V9780674018068
ISBN
9780674018068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.70

Hardback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 114. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691163765
ISBN
9780691163765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.37

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746307953
ISBN
9780746307953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.74

Paperback. A series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time - from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King. The text explores such issues as the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, and the lure of horror. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231050494
ISBN
9780231050494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.49

Paperback. As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts. Editor(s): Bennett, Michael Y. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349568277
ISBN
9781349568277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

Hardback. As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts. Editor(s): Bennett, Michael Y. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410924
ISBN
9781137410924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision"-- Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343942
ISBN
9781349343942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. In detailed readings of ten novels (by Balzac, Stendhal, Austen, Dickens, and James), the author shows how novelists, in their practice of novelistic representation, deal with certain cultural issues, social values, and ideological purposes through the particular combination and manipulation of a set of formal possibilities. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726115
ISBN
9780804726115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.56

Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646671
ISBN
9780691646671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746308677
ISBN
9780746308677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.95

Paperback. Explores the African American writer's literary odyssey and struggle for freedom from racism and materialism. Translator(s): Barzun, Isabel. Num Pages: 680 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
680
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252062643
ISBN
9780252062643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.72

Hardback. Editor(s): Artieres, Philippe; Bert, Jean-Francois; Potte-Bonneville, Mathieu; Revel, Judith. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816693238
ISBN
9780816693238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.20

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