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Literary studies: general

Paperback. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this title offers a definitive account by an American in Paris. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185361
ISBN
9780141185361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and cultural context. Translator(s): Garfield, Evelyn Picon. Series: Latin American Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, 1 facsim. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; BGA; DSBD; HBTS; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wayne State University Press United States
Edition
Bilingual Ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814325384
ISBN
9780814325384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.13

Paperback. * This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of the book, the roles played by the printer and the typesetter were just as important as the role played by the author: they were often invisible but they were crucial. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745656021
ISBN
9780745656021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.08

Hardcover. * This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of the book, the roles played by the printer and the typesetter were just as important as the role played by the author: they were often invisible but they were crucial. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745656014
ISBN
9780745656014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.24

Hardcover. In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead. Translator(s): Cooperson, Michael. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21 cm. BIC Classification: 1HB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629368
ISBN
9780815629368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.01

Paperback. In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead. Translator(s): Cooperson, Michael. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21 cm. BIC Classification: 1HB; 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 195.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629313
ISBN
9780815629313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.48

Hardback. Series: Asian American History & Culture. Num Pages: 222 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781439912263
ISBN
9781439912263
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.62

Hardback. Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 211 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055575
ISBN
9780674055575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.12

hardcover. This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Editor(s): Fuller, David; Waugh, Patricia. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198186397
ISBN
9780198186397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.15

Paperback. In this study, Linda M. Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. She explores how black and white 19th-century women writers defined, expressed and dramatized anger. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228137
ISBN
9780807853481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. The Halletts' investigation differs from anything that has been written about the relationship between Thomas More and William Shakespeare in that it approaches the subject from a dramaturgical point of view. This book defines, in specific terms, what Shakespeare learned from his study of More's History and how he learned it. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113671
ISBN
9780230113671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349057177
ISBN
9781349057177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.00

Paperback. Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121071
ISBN
9781405121071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.71

Hardcover. Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121064
ISBN
9781405121064
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.50

Paperback. Addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the post-dictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neo-liberal market-driven economies. This work is suitable for Latin Americanists, literary and political theorists and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalisation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; 3JJP; A; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JHM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822328186
ISBN
9780822328186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555974893
ISBN
9781555974893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.27

Hardback. The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442631915
ISBN
9781442631915
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.97

Paperback. This text aims to provide a guide to the sonnets of Shakespeare. Commentaries, presented alongside the original text and a modernized version, offer perspectives on individual poems, stylistic features and ironic capacity. Num Pages: 696 pages, 154 facsimiles, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 994.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
696
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674637122
ISBN
9780674637122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.07

Paperback. The Art of Reading is the first-long overdue-collection of essays by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be published in English. As the scope of the collection shows, Bollack felt equally at home thinking in depth about both the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy and modern, including contemporary, poetry. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660199
ISBN
9780674660199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. .
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911344186
ISBN
9781911344186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

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