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Literary studies: general

Hardback. This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries. Editor(s): Ferris, Ina; Keen, Paul. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230222311
ISBN
9780230222311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. Examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. This work includes essays that draw on an array of documentary evidence - such as library catalogs and prefaces - to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Editor(s): Andersen, Jennifer; Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217940
ISBN
9780812217940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; DQ; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271064055
ISBN
9780271064055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 40.39

hardcover. Editor(s): Bellingradt, Daniel; Nelles, Paul; Salman, Jeroen. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319533650
ISBN
9783319533650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.42

Paperback. Series: MIP Richard Rawlinson Center Series. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; 2ADL; 2AF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 252 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580441827
ISBN
9781580441827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033231
ISBN
9780268033231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Hardcover. Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world. Num Pages: 225 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210295
ISBN
9780230210295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Hardcover. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Fraser, Robert; Hammond, Mary. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210332
ISBN
9780230210332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Digital (delivered electronically). Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. Editor(s): Burry, Alexander (Ohio State University); White, Frederick (Utah Valley University). BIC Classification: 1DVU; APFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474425919
ISBN
9781474425919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. Locates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 298 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSB; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206823
ISBN
9780520206823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639588
ISBN
9780816639588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation. Num Pages: 456 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761055
ISBN
9780804761055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. This text, using examples ranging from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, examines the influence that the concept of "boredom" exerts on the literary imagination. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768540
ISBN
9780226768540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137451293
ISBN
9781137451293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349053
ISBN
9780820349053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.30

Paperback. Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Peurto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. The story of an American community of colour, "Boricua Literature" is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780814731475
ISBN
9780814731475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165945
ISBN
9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.77

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135568
ISBN
9781571135568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781781380307
ISBN
9781781380307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Davis, Dick. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Mage Publishers United States
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934211383
ISBN
9780934211383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.05

Hardback. Series: Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies S. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AJKR; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
National Association for Armenian Studies & Research United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780935411225
ISBN
9780935411225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AV; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780967967523
ISBN
9780967967523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349056309
ISBN
9781349056309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.40

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088452
ISBN
9780719088452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.86

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