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Literary studies: general

Hardback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756624
ISBN
9780804756624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.23

hardcover. Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, this book shows how African-American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
169
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239213
ISBN
9780312239213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Hardback. Series: New Studies in Modern Japan. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739138755
ISBN
9780739138755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.98

Hardcover. Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244854
ISBN
9780812244854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Hardback. Takes the reader on an exploration of this genre, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1993. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1035.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
784
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810832602
ISBN
9780810832602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 211.30

Paperback. This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them. Num Pages: 212 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075860
ISBN
9780226075860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.94

Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822323150
ISBN
9780822323150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second collection of adaptations written by Lavirey. Editor(s): Cameron, Keith; Wright, Paul. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 106 pages, 1 facsim. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2ADT; DD; DQ; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895392
ISBN
9780859895392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.42

paperback. Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712697903
ISBN
9780712697903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.46

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393927559
ISBN
9780393927559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Hardcover. The Trivium are the three Liberal Arts pertaining to language: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of perfecting a speaker and their speech. Also included in this compendium of seven Wooden Books are studies of Euphonics, Poetic Meter and Form, Ethics, and Proverbs. Series: Wooden Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907155185
ISBN
9781907155185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.51

Paperback. Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. This biography is based on numerous interviews with people who knew Barea. It revisits Barea's writing qualities and deficiencies in the context of stimulating intersections of literature and politics, and of Spain and England. Num Pages: 243 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BGL; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194697
ISBN
9781845194697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdos' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siecle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues associated with late-romantic thought. Editor(s): Valdivia, Pablo. Series Editor(s): Davies, Catherine. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719099212
ISBN
9780719099212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.07

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271313
ISBN
9780823271313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271306
ISBN
9780823271306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

Hardback. An English translation of Cervantes' final novel, an exotic romance, and the novel he considered to be his finest. Translator(s): Weller, Celia Richmond; Colahan, Clark A. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209718
ISBN
9780872209718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.22
€ 45.61

Hardback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251711
ISBN
9780823251711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857388391
ISBN
9780857388391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Num Pages: 256 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRAC; HRAX; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199948611
ISBN
9780199948611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 95.15

Hardcover. Presents the first English translation of two important texts, with a new critical edition based on several original manuscripts Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814729144
ISBN
9780814729144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.70

Paperback. Translator(s): Qutbuddin, Tahera. Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9781479896530
ISBN
9781479896530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.49

Hardback. A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. Editor(s): Katz, Wendy Roberta. Series: The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748608379
ISBN
9780748608379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.37

Paperback. Series: Popular Patristics. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 184 x 2. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
St Vladimir´s Seminary Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881414219
ISBN
9780881414219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474491
ISBN
9780801474491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

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