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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. This book questions established terms such as 'Modernism' or 'the Angry Young Men' and explores new terms such as 'critical realism' and literary developments such as 'the Scottish New Wave'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643356
ISBN
9780748643356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.31

Paperback. 'Oxford Student Texts' provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Up-to-date to meet today's curriculum requirements for post-16 study, this series is designed to motivate and encourage students working on these challenging writers for the first time. Editor(s): Moore, Jackie. Series Editor(s): Croft, Steven. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map, facsim., photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XS) Student text. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
FIRST EDITION
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198325741
ISBN
9780198325741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.65

Hardcover. Features witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This title covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and lost plays and less well-known works of poetry. Series: Big Ideas. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1162.
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241182611
ISBN
9780241182611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. In his introduction to this now classic anthology, Karl Beckson traces the development of the Decadent or Aesthetic movement, illuminating the selected work of artists such as Wilde, Yeats, Symons, and Beerbohm that follows. Editor(s): Beckson, Karl. Num Pages: 382 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897330442
ISBN
9780897330442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.36

Paperback. Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Translator(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJC; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022225
ISBN
9780674022225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901619
ISBN
9780226901619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.18

Paperback. In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its comedy. Editor(s): Blake, Prof. Ann. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 192 pages, approx 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713662900
ISBN
9780713662900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination', humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. This book explores the social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Bourgois, Philippe I. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223498
ISBN
9780631223498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 48.24

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621848
ISBN
9781909621848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. .
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783039113613
ISBN
9783039113613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.46

Hardback. Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend. Editor(s): Brandsma, Frank; Larrington, Carolyne; Saunders, Corinne. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 245 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844211
ISBN
9781843844211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.42

Hardcover. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0211754
ISBN
9780754602835
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. An illuminating examination of writer and lay theologian Dorothy L. Sayers' Trinitarian understanding of human creativity, and how it offers a theologically authentic basis for a socially-committed Christian life. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718893347
ISBN
9780718893347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.92

Paperback. Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures. Editor(s): Giffney, Noreen; Sauer, Michelle M.; Watt, Diane. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349380183
ISBN
9781349380183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Sturrock, John. Num Pages: 544 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322899
ISBN
9780940322899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.87

Paperback. An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447250708
ISBN
9781447250708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.28

Paperback. A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306599
ISBN
9780226306599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. Editor(s): Clarke, Nana Ayebia; Currey, James. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956930767
ISBN
9780956930767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26, 18 black & white halftones, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 266 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420943
ISBN
9781421420943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.23

Hardback. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world. Series: Robson Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442650176
ISBN
9781442650176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 50.87

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