Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Taboo words are the subject of this text, which traces the psychic origins of dirty words to early infancy and childhood, and their place and value in life and analytic therapy. It refers to "dirty" words used by Rabelais, Quevado, Mozart, Voltaire, the Marquis de Sade, Joyce and Lawrence. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: CFD; CFF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1st softcover ed
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568217994
- ISBN
- 9781568217994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.11
€ 99.11
Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802091536
- ISBN
- 9780802091536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.45
€ 105.45
Hardback. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442645011
- ISBN
- 9781442645011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.08
€ 61.08
Paperback. In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. This book builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015972
- ISBN
- 9780691015972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.31€ 60.02
€ 77.31
€ 60.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 431 pages. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSB; HRKT; JFHF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 431
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826310439
- ISBN
- 9780826310439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.82
€ 34.82
Hardback. Spiegel explores how in one of his best known novels the 19th-century Russian author used laughter not only to flesh out characters but also to foreshadow and intensify events, highlight thematic and compositional parallels, influence the plot, and shape the novel's symbolic structure. As background Num Pages: 168 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910376
- ISBN
- 9781575910376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.32
€ 121.32
Paperback. Examines E. M. Forster's irrepressible interest in music, providing plentiful examples of how the eminent British author's fiction resonates with music. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black and white photographs, 18 musical examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252079023
- ISBN
- 9780252079023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardcover. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936055
- ISBN
- 9780813936055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.40
€ 83.40
Paperback. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. However from the 15th to the 17th centuries print culture led to many disputes over modes of literacy, as the transition from Latin to more vernacular forms of speech and writing escalated. Num Pages: 350 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226243122
- ISBN
- 9780226243122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.69
€ 43.99
€ 33.69
Hardback. Translator(s): Carlson, Mona; Hedges, Jane T. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231052429
- ISBN
- 9780231052429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.91€ 109.08
€ 143.91
€ 109.08
Paperback. Considers Goethe as the undead core of German literary and theoretical production, the basis of a poignant code of symptoms that the author tracks and traces. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073496
- ISBN
- 9780252073496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.64
€ 30.99
€ 27.64
Hardback. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, logic, and sociology about the grammar of conversations, the author considers the rhetoric of conversation in Dicken's novels. Series: AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- AMS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780404644703
- ISBN
- 9780404644703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.30
€ 150.30
Hardcover. This book presents fully edited texts of dramatizations of Dickens's early novels-especially his Christmas books, which were staged in London simultaneously with publication. The edition makes available, for the first time, this exciting body of translations to the stage made by the first generation of Dickensian adaptors. Editor(s): Bratton, Jacky. Num Pages: 480 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780198787952
- ISBN
- 9780198787952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.68
€ 235.68
The author argues that in "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens updated "David Copperfield" and rewrote novels by various contemporaries. He parodically revised his competitor's themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic and imbued with Cinderella motifs. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122281
- ISBN
- 9780813122281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.83
€ 49.83
Paperback. The ambiguous struggle between convention and dissent in the language he uses for representing women charges Dickens? novels with their uneasy excitement and power. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 190. Paperback, in very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0011726
- ISBN
- 9780802077608
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The ambiguous struggle between convention and dissent in the language he uses for representing women charges Dickens? novels with their uneasy excitement and power. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 190. Paperback, in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- KRF0011711
- ISBN
- 9780802077608
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857284181
- ISBN
- 9780857284181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.37
€ 141.37
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644738
- ISBN
- 9780691644738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.53€ 74.89
€ 97.53
€ 74.89
Paperback. Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child must have been astonished at his rise from being, in his own words, 'a little labouring hind' to becoming one of the most famous and adored men in the world. Series: NPG Companions. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- National Portrait Gallery Publications United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855145962
- ISBN
- 9781855145962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.51
€ 9.51
Paperback. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. This title takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099437093
- ISBN
- 9780099437093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29