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Literary studies: general

Paperback. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200. Series: Reader's Guides. 176 pages. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Continuum
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826490117
ISBN
9780826490117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.49

paperback. Designed to meet the instructional needs of advanced German courses, this volume combines a number of pedagogically proven foreign language teaching and learning strategies, primarily the communicative approach and the three-stage reading strategy. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: AB; CJ; DSBH; DSBH5; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 273 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781433126390
ISBN
9781433126390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.67

Paperback. From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. > Num Pages: 192 pages, 45. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441189684
ISBN
9781441189684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256. 210 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Africa World Pr
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592210565
ISBN
9781592210565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.97

paperback. Presents a personal chronicle of Fanny, a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. This novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069468
ISBN
9780252069468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069611
ISBN
9780252069611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

paperback. A collection of poems that find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. It comments on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 203. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071201
ISBN
9780252071201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

paperback. The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. It explores the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071294
ISBN
9780252071294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

paperback. The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075919
ISBN
9780252075919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st
SKU
V9780312400378
ISBN
9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.70

Paperback. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712666350
ISBN
9780712666350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 1088 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB; HBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 280 x 45. Weight in Grams: 2972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cengage Learning
Edition
9th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781337296724
ISBN
9781337296724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 379.76

paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780940322127
ISBN
9780940322127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.29

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604734201
ISBN
9781604734201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.02

Hardcover. Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pearson
Edition
5th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780205175482
ISBN
9780205175482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.42

Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press ELT
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472085408
ISBN
9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.10

paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
9780872208933
ISBN
9780872208933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.35

Paperback. From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and often transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017566
ISBN
9780674017566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1097.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199539918
ISBN
9780199539918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.12

paperback. Hopkins is now recognized as a major nineteenth-century poet. His poetry reveals his sense of vocation as both priest and poet, his love of beauty, and his search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. This selection includes many of his best-known poems, including 'The Windhover' and 'Felix Randall'. Editor(s): Phillips, Catherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780199537297
ISBN
9780199537297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.12

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