Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 20 Anv
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305592
- ISBN
- 9780226305592
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Hardcover. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, this work reveals that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. It shows how through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926100
- ISBN
- 9780813926100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.04
€ 60.04
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 676 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 676
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691646886
- ISBN
- 9780691646886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 322.65
€ 322.65
paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069611
- ISBN
- 9780252069611
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.34
€ 43.99
€ 38.34
Paperback. Editor(s): Arias, Martin; Hadis, Martin. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780811222747
- ISBN
- 9780811222747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Hardback. In 1969, Dr Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field. The result was a collection of videos, "Profiles in Literature". This text summarizes and quotes from the interviews in the video series and also expands/updates guest's background data. Num Pages: 416 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810837874
- ISBN
- 9780810837874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.17
€ 141.17
hardcover. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812238259
- ISBN
- 9780812238259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.52
€ 89.52
Paperback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608761
- ISBN
- 9780691608761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.41
€ 54.99
€ 39.41
Hardback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3JF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637167
- ISBN
- 9780691637167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.06
€ 139.06
Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019079
- ISBN
- 9780691019079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687303
- ISBN
- 9780856687303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.94
€ 34.99
€ 30.94
Paperback. Editor(s): Nikkanen, Anita. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474266147
- ISBN
- 9781474266147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.75
€ 25.99
€ 22.75
Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274017
- ISBN
- 9780823274017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.43
€ 131.43
Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231539
- ISBN
- 9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.89
€ 104.89
Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823231546
- ISBN
- 9780823231546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Hardback. A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844471
- ISBN
- 9781843844471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.69
€ 97.69
Paperback. Series: Opuscula Graecolatina S. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788788073133
- ISBN
- 9788788073133
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.68
€ 15.99
€ 12.68
Hardcover. A magisterial survey of the Prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 350 years that presents a cross-cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based the close examination of original published manuscripts. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSB; HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364. 1650 to the Present. 320 pages. A magisterial survey of the Prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 350 years that presents a cross-cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based the close examination of original published manuscripts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSB; HRH. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Islamic Foundation
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860374787
- ISBN
- 9780860374787
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.46
€ 47.99
€ 37.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936550
- ISBN
- 9780813936550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.28
€ 79.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936567
- ISBN
- 9780813936567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.30
€ 35.30