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Literary studies: general
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451135
- ISBN
- 9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's biography and other studies of her, the author's own account of her early life should hold fascination for its unexpected detail and clear-sighted judgement of Victorian values. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712646185
- ISBN
- 9780712646185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Hardback. This book is a genre history that traces the second life, in the nineteenth century, of a poetic form that had enjoyed its original heyday three hundred years earlier. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838636305
- ISBN
- 9780838636305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.50
€ 123.50
Paperback. Born to a petty thief in Newgate prison, Nell Flanders recounts her turbulent life in this classic novel. Appendices include related writings, and eighteenth-century documents on crime, prisons and the Virginia colony. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551114514
- ISBN
- 9781551114514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.64
€ 25.99
€ 19.64
Paperback. Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. Editor(s): Rivero, Albert J. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393978629
- ISBN
- 9780393978629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.44
€ 18.44
Hardcover. Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. Num Pages: 222 pages, 46+ illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857284426
- ISBN
- 9780857284426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.10
€ 140.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226241180
- ISBN
- 9780226241180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardcover. Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friels Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives to create between readers, and script, actors and audience. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633310
- ISBN
- 9780815633310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.39
€ 53.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480467
- ISBN
- 9781611480467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Hardback. The 1949 birth of the People's Republic of China divided the nation into many political entities, displacing millions. Examining a body of understudied literary and cultural output in mainland China and elsewhere after World War II, the author investigates how writers responded to these shifts to shape a new Chinese subjectivity in their works. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726727
- ISBN
- 9780674726727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
€ 44.99
€ 38.32
Hardback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600447
- ISBN
- 9780230600447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardback. This study of urban identity and community looks at selected 20th century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker proposes a "reflexive modernism" which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333801680
- ISBN
- 9780333801680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardback. Editor(s): Kochis, Matthew J.; Lusty, Heather L. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813060477
- ISBN
- 9780813060477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.70
€ 120.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Chernaik, Warren; Gould, Warwick; Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349245536
- ISBN
- 9781349245536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.72
€ 127.72
Hardcover. This text concerns a particular area in the history of the book. It demonstrates developments in the sociology of texts, the practice of literary biography, and textual criticism relating to 19th-century literature. Editor(s): Willison, Ian. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333606599
- ISBN
- 9780333606599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.68
€ 128.68
Hardback. Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278998
- ISBN
- 9780230278998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. "Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War"-- Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326723
- ISBN
- 9781349326723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as well as to the 'return of religion' in modernist studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035509
- ISBN
- 9781137035509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349442294
- ISBN
- 9781349442294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardback. Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444318
- ISBN
- 9781137444318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213079
- ISBN
- 9780631213079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748627646
- ISBN
- 9780748627646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.02
€ 34.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania; The Open University/BBC; University of Pennsylvania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639939
- ISBN
- 9780748639939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
* Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213062
- ISBN
- 9780631213062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61