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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Montaigne is known for his exploration of the subject or the self. This work discusses these and other aspects of Montaigne's work "Essais" as features in the mapping of a mental landscape. Taking passages from different chapters of the "Essais", it guides readers through Montaigne's investigation of the subtle shades and stirrings of the mind. Series: How to Read. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; HPCB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781862079441
ISBN
9781862079441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.89

Paperback. After spending time in the Soviet gulag and pursuing the life of an underground writer, the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was catapulted to international fame with the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962". This reader provides a representative selection of Solzhenitsyn's voluminous works. Editor(s): Ericson, Edward E.; Mahoney, Daniel J. Num Pages: 679 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; DQ; DSBH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1078.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935191551
ISBN
9781935191551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.77

Hardback. Gore Vidal has been entertaining - and occasionally outraging - the American public for 50 years. This study examines Vidal's recent and early novels, and considers the recurring theme of the decline of the United States. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313295799
ISBN
9780313295799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.11

Hardback. Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008946
ISBN
9780230008946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.84

Hardcover. Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya. Editor(s): Nicholson, Reynold A. Num Pages: 529 pages, notes, translation, commentary. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRH; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 758. English Translation. 529 pages, notes, translation, commentary. Editor(s): Nicholson, Reynold A. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRH; HRLK2. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 32. Weight: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust
Edition
2Rev Ed
Number of pages
529
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094105
ISBN
9780906094105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Monica Ali and Meera Syal. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719078330
ISBN
9780719078330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.77

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Random House USA Inc India
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385721981
ISBN
9780385721981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.35

Hardback. Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of the popular genre of crime fiction, from its origins right up to the present day. This expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of new developments and recent research, and also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580732
ISBN
9780230580732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.70
€ 98.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSBH; JFD; UT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349517640
ISBN
9781349517640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Paperback. First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 38. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753825778
ISBN
9780753825778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.38

Hardback. Editor(s): Portillo, Isabel Jaen; Simon, Julien Jacques. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSA; DSBD; HPM; JMR; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415785471
ISBN
9780415785471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.31
€ 140.44

Paperback. This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoirs, letters, trauma accounts, prison narratives, coming out stories, coming of age stories and spiritual autobiographies. Editor(s): Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia. Series: Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography. Num Pages: 880 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 889.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
880
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299158446
ISBN
9780299158446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.54

Hardcover. This text explores musical reference in George Eliot's work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in scientific theory and the ambivalent status of female musicality. Num Pages: 265 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; AV; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2003rd Edition
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333997574
ISBN
9780333997574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.84

Paperback. Includes essays that explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Num Pages: 348 pages, 9 music exx., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012555
ISBN
9780253012555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press U.S.A.
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822312246
ISBN
9780822312246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.04

Hardback. This text examines the ways in which the modern reception to Keats's major odes reveals the investments made in these poems by successive generations of critical schools, particularly New Criticism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and New Historicism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813015903
ISBN
9780813015903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.91
€ 63.94

Hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Rocet Arwel. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFW; BG; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708315613
ISBN
9780708315613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.05

Paperback. Editor(s): Stevick, Robert D. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252063794
ISBN
9780252063794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. This approachable guide explores the secondary criticism surrounding Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, from their publication in 1818 through to today. Enit Karafili Steiner explores the key themes and concerns that have stimulated debate over the years, as well as providing an overview of the critical responses to screen adaptations. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137432162
ISBN
9781137432162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.30

Paperback. First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819573230
ISBN
9780819573230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.93

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