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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the "I-novel," an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's personal life thinly veiled as fiction. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731621
ISBN
9780804731621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses key approaches to narrative fiction, from New Criticism to Phenomenology, but also offers views on and modifications to these theories. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415280228
ISBN
9780415280228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.78

Hardcover. In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's "L'Astree" and Charles Sorel's "Le Berger extravagant", the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations24 cm. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557532350
ISBN
9781557532350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.34

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801497704
ISBN
9780801497704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.60

Paperback. Series: The Basics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415832656
ISBN
9780415832656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.80

hardcover. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253024015
ISBN
9780253024015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

Hardback. Tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of 'downturn' and 'break', and narration as 'recounting' in the senses suggested by the French term recit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 491.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230488
ISBN
9780823230488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.21

Paperback. Translator(s): Larkin, Edward T. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411388
ISBN
9781572411388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.12

Hardback. Approximately 2600 entries, including reviews, news reports, a selection of obituaries, and reviews of all 19th-century book-length studies of Hawthorne's life and literary career. Series: The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810821842
ISBN
9780810821842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.77

Hardcover. The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. This book traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of works by writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804613
ISBN
9780875804613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.79

Paperback. Examines the role of literature in building states and citizens. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253215543
ISBN
9780253215543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.81

Hardback. Breitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755818
ISBN
9780804755818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816618637
ISBN
9780816618637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199944521
ISBN
9780199944521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Hardcover. This is the first study in English of French-language fiction by Lebanese women writers and therefore brings a relatively unknown literary tradition to light. Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 2ADF; 2CSR; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633563
ISBN
9780815633563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.14

Paperback. A collection of post-Zionist reading of poets Esther Raab, Haim Gouri, and Moshe Dor. Series: The B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815681809
ISBN
9780815681809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443138
ISBN
9780801443138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.47

Hardback. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 30. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723916
ISBN
9780804723916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.93

paperback. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804725200
ISBN
9780804725200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 40.51

Paperback. Presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Enlarged
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314226
ISBN
9780822314226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.35

Hardback. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; AFC; AFK; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; JHMC; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074948
ISBN
9780691074948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.20
€ 67.97

Hardback. Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics-what used to be known as "natural philosophy"-and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248654
ISBN
9780812248654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.66

Hardback. This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. The depth of these original perspectives on the literature, art, politics, science, and philosophy of transatlantic nineteenth-century culture will foster future conversations. Editor(s): Almeida, Hermione de. Num Pages: 374 pages, 31 black & white halftones, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611495409
ISBN
9781611495409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.03

Hardback. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture-nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire. Num Pages: 416 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420967
ISBN
9781421420967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.57
€ 55.46

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