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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125314
ISBN
9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478900
ISBN
9781137478900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843931
ISBN
9781843843931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Negotiations of National Identity. 338 pages, black & white illustrations. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight: 680.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9781843842880
ISBN
9781843842880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Hardcover. Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504387
ISBN
9780674504387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Hardback. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857284433
ISBN
9780857284433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226457802
ISBN
9780226457802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325994
ISBN
9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.87

Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530561
ISBN
9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271064871
ISBN
9780271064871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.80
€ 68.09

Hardcover. Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472105878
ISBN
9780472105878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.92

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638720
ISBN
9780691638720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.65

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164412
ISBN
9780231164412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164405
ISBN
9780231164405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Paperback. Allegories, rhetoric, imagery, commonplaces, cliches and archetypes are discussed in connection with the literary work of authors such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Emile Zola and James Joyce. Editor(s): Hunter, Lynette. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349115044
ISBN
9781349115044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Hardcover. This book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137549570
ISBN
9781137549570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184616
ISBN
9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.21

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947020
ISBN
9781933947020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691634234
ISBN
9780691634234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.54

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730983
ISBN
9780804730983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.96

Paperback. This book examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730990
ISBN
9780804730990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Translator(s): Molino, Anthony. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Open Letter
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940953144
ISBN
9781940953144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.90

Hardcover. This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces. Editor(s): Ramsey, Neil; Russell, Gillian. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137474308
ISBN
9781137474308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardback. Editor(s): Collett, Anne; McDougall, Russell; Thomas, Susan. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319415154
ISBN
9783319415154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.08

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