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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846315008
- ISBN
- 9781846315008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.57
€ 52.57
Paperback. Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195136128
- ISBN
- 9780195136128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.07
€ 24.07
Hardcover. Victorian sensation novels, with their plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyzes the novels and the magazines in which they were serialized, highlighting how novels and magazines worked together to engage in cultural and social debates of the period. Num Pages: 202 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333776667
- ISBN
- 9780333776667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104471
- ISBN
- 9780230104471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; GTE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289028
- ISBN
- 9781349289028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 161 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231047821
- ISBN
- 9780231047821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.54
€ 131.54
Paperback. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced, but a major poet of the 20th century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This is a selection of his work. Editor(s): Hunt, Tim. Num Pages: 776 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 776
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741088
- ISBN
- 9780804741088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.30
€ 46.99
€ 42.30
Paperback. This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of 19th century poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring the themes of loss and unattainable hope across subjects ranging from love to the divine. Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853264290
- ISBN
- 9781853264290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Paperback. Edith Somerville and Violet Martin Ross were cousins who entered a literary partnership that produced the 19th century Irish novel, "The Real Charlotte" and a series of comic stories, "Some Experiences of an Irish RM". This book looks at a selection of their letters. Editor(s): Lewis, Gifford. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KKD0005338
- ISBN
- 9780571153497
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. The author is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, he imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. This title deals with his works. Editor(s): Smith, Rod; Baker, Peter; Harris, Kaplan. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 545
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241602
- ISBN
- 9780520241602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.65€ 51.34
€ 64.65
€ 51.34
Paperback. The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company. Editor(s): Hartley, Jenny. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199686834
- ISBN
- 9780199686834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. Editor(s): Briggs, Ward W. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: CJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 533.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555408077
- ISBN
- 9781555408077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.19
€ 104.19
Paperback. This book examines the early development of the fantastic tale through the works of of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738606
- ISBN
- 9780804738606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
The Secrets of Generation. Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century...
. Ed(S): Stephanson, Raymond; Wagner, Darren
Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century. Num Pages: 544 pages. .
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646964
- ISBN
- 9781442646964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.18
€ 96.18
Hardback. This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750462
- ISBN
- 9780804750462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811200455
- ISBN
- 9780811200455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.42
€ 11.42
Paperback. In this work, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground and firmly displaced wonder and awe with the forces of reason, materialism and science. Num Pages: 368 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012448
- ISBN
- 9780674012448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.86
€ 56.86
Hardcover. The three essays in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947129
- ISBN
- 9781933947129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages of B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pegasus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605986173
- ISBN
- 9781605986173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.10
€ 18.99
€ 18.10
Paperback. F. Fraser Darling provides a beautifully written account of the interaction between humanity and life underwater accompanied with illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe. Illustrator(s): Tunnicliffe, C. F. Num Pages: 84 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; PSVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 116 x 6. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521175944
- ISBN
- 9780521175944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.91
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. * Highly entertaining account of four journeys into the Himalayas and Tibet * Includes a ground-breaking survey of the history of early Tibet Num Pages: 320 pages, Section: 16, colour. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 1KBB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349111421
- ISBN
- 9780349111421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.10
€ 17.10
Hardcover. This text explores the strategies adopted by such authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity-strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism. It also offers new insights into their work. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333763346
- ISBN
- 9780333763346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015064
- ISBN
- 9780691015064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.65€ 51.34
€ 64.65
€ 51.34
Hardcover. The second volume of a major two-volume study of the fortunes of Michel de Montaigne's Essais in both the early-modern (1580-1725) and the modern period (1900-2000). Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works. Num Pages: 576 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; 3J; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739661
- ISBN
- 9780198739661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.48
€ 210.48