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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Mahmoud Baroud here conducts a detailed comparative textual analysis of 'Hayy Bin Yaqzan' and 'Robinson Crusoe', and concludes that Daniel Defoe was likely to have been deeply influenced by Ibn Tufayl's Arabic text. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848855526
ISBN
9781848855526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.89
€ 135.20

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138677258
ISBN
9781138677258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.94

Hardback. Analyzes the stories in James Joyce's "Dubliners". This work examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237399
ISBN
9780812237399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.16

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474413848
ISBN
9781474413848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.60

Hardback. Looks at a number of authors who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing. This monograph on Iraqi fiction focuses on Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman (1927-1990), Mahdi Isa al-Saqr (1927-2006) and Fu'ad al-Takarli (1927-2008), and a selection of works by Dhu al-Nun Ayyub and Abd al-Malik Nuri. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2CSR; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748641413
ISBN
9780748641413
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 94.57

Hardback. This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625994
ISBN
9780748625994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.60

Paperback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSA; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785839
ISBN
9780804785839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.49

Paperback. Newly available in paperback, this study places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642847
ISBN
9780748642847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.49

Paperback. The one empire he most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primary home, was the empire of art."-from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius Num Pages: 672 pages, 76, 76 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 928.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801862717
ISBN
9780801862717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.33

Hardcover. Provides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748698554
ISBN
9780748698554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.00

Paperback. Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Series: Duckworth Classical Essays. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715632796
ISBN
9780715632796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.54

Paperback. A history of literary Buckinghamshire Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESU; 2AB; DSB; WQH; WQN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750949590
ISBN
9780750949590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.38

Paperback. This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624515
ISBN
9780748624515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.07

Paperback. Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial studies and medieval studies. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748637188
ISBN
9780748637188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Hardback. Contemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism. Num Pages: 272 pages, glossary, index, bibliographies. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748613809
ISBN
9780748613809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.01
€ 139.88

Hardcover.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125043
ISBN
9781905125043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.45

Paperback. The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play. First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617463
ISBN
9780748617463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.

Translator(s): Gilbert, Creighton. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
319
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691003245
ISBN
9780691003245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.65

Hardcover. The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings dragged on for seven years from 1788 to 1795. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 25. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784539221
ISBN
9781784539221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 42.32

Hardback. Both comical and horrific, 'The Three Perils of Woman' is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution and venereal disease. Editor(s): Groves, Colin; Mack, Douglas S.; Hasler, Antony J. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 42. Weight in Grams: 820.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748604777
ISBN
9780748604777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 105.90

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