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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Alan Sillitoe, is this subject of this work. It is an analysis of his early life and literary influences, and the author looks at four dominant themes in his work: new existentialism; identity of "love"; madness and freedom; and the characterization of women. Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature. Num Pages: 197 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570032196
ISBN
9781570032196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.50

Hardback. The study of the full career of an award-winning writer that evolved from traditional to radical Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611176995
ISBN
9781611176995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Along with a fresh translation of Azuela's classic novel, this volume offers an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and political contexts. Related texts include contemporary reviews of Azuela's work, excerpts from John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico", and selections from Azuela's correspondence. Translator(s): Pellon, Gustavo. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208353
ISBN
9780872208353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Along with a fresh translation of Azuela's classic novel, this volume offers an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and political contexts. Related texts include contemporary reviews of Azuela's work, excerpts from John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico", and selections from Azuela's correspondence. Translator(s): Pellon, Gustavo. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
174
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208346
ISBN
9780872208346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.52

Paperback. Around 1705, an African boy from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was taken to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. He was to become the great-grandfather of the poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology. Editor(s): Nepomnyashchy, Catharine; Trigos, Ludmilla A.; Svobodny, Nicole. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 520 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810119710
ISBN
9780810119710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of 3 men - a local farmer, a church musician and Maybold. Editor(s): Dolin, Tim. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
KKD0002193
ISBN
9780140435535
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005089
ISBN
9780753807095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857543612
ISBN
9781857543612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.26

Hardback. In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803245037
ISBN
9780803245037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149907
ISBN
9780231149907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.99
€ 64.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Managing Language in the Digital Age. 272 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 13. Weight: 312.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149914
ISBN
9780231149914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.69

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648149
ISBN
9780691648149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.91

Paperback. Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the 'closet drama' - plays written largely for private reading - as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities. Series: Yale Studies in English. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352. American Modernism and Queer Performance. Series: Yale Studies in English. 240 pages. Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the 'closet drama' - plays written largely for private reading - as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300155396
ISBN
9780300155396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.11

Paperback. Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13fig. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820327372
ISBN
9780820327372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.46

Paperback. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
20th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421650
ISBN
9781421421650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.35

Hardcover. Presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; DSBD; HPCD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226136936
ISBN
9780226136936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.36

Hardback. Includes sixteen essays that represent how challenging, stimulating, and far-ranging are the efforts to read Milton critically and deeply. This collection deals with the issue of evil, world of Milton's masque and the many worlds of his epic "Paradise Lost". Editor(s): Durham, Charles W.; Pruitt, Kristin A. Num Pages: 343 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911168
ISBN
9781575911168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.70

Hardcover. Marking Roy Foster's retirement from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and recognising his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual, this essay collection charts Foster's career while reflecting on developments in the field of Irish history writing, teaching, and research. Editor(s): Paseta, Senia. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198748274
ISBN
9780198748274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.99

Paperback. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK; JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131866
ISBN
9780810131866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

Paperback. Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves either actual Europeans or Westernized natives.

" Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 images. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC; JHBT; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810132092
ISBN
9780810132092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.72

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