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Literary studies: general

paperback. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332. An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Series: Canto Classics. 242 pages. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight: 344.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
238
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107604704
ISBN
9781107604704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00

Paperback. Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252069109
ISBN
9780252069109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. 18 July 1898. World-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 250 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571312016
ISBN
9780571312016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HRQM; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Mandrake
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906958657
ISBN
9781906958657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477850
ISBN
9780801477850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; 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
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635590
ISBN
9780691635590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.58

paperback. Examining novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Sherley Anne Williams, Octavia Butler, John Edgar Wideman, Phyllis Perry, Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips, and others, this book presents an insightful approach to canonical and noncanonical contemporary fictional slave narratives. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927404
ISBN
9780813927404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.36

Hardback. At age 36, acclaimed poet Marya Zaturenska's work reached its full potential even as she battled emotional and physical illness. Recently rediscovered diaries, published here, reflect that crucial period in the poet's life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 photographs, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815607144
ISBN
9780815607144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.64

Hardcover. Margaret Scott's two-volume edition of the Notebooks published in 1997 is a remarkable achievement. This edition remaps all the entries in the Notebooks not used in the Collected Fiction volumes, and presents the material in chronological order. This edition provides a fascinating, chronological account of Mansfield's life, as she wrote it. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Davison, Claire. Series: Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748685059
ISBN
9780748685059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.67
€ 207.17

hardcover. Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910222
ISBN
9781575910222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.01

Hardback. This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231066426
ISBN
9780231066426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.48

Paperback. Entering the debate on American literary history, this study offers a perspective on what constitutes not only the canon of American literature, but also the notion of America itself. The author argues for a conception of American culture which is more responsive to trans-national ideologies. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3658 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311690
ISBN
9780822311690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardback. Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year in 2009, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger. Spending more than three years in the French capital where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals and with visiting German celebrities. Num Pages: 140 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
140
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451149
ISBN
9780857451149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.28

Paperback. Traces the growth of ancient biography from the 5th century to the 1st century BC and includes the essay "Second Thoughts on Greek Biography". Momigliano clarifies the social and intellectual implications of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CJCW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674200418
ISBN
9780674200418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.82

Hardback. Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416. Certain in Uncertainty. 240 pages. Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPK. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight: 416.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
242
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2010 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230231511
ISBN
9780230231511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.03

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783483983
ISBN
9781783483983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.28
€ 20.96

Paperback. .
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232440
ISBN
9781909232440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517666
ISBN
9781903517666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. By uncovering residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English, Mareike Neuhaus shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as" literatures" in their own right. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of Regina Press Canada
Number of pages
295
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889773905
ISBN
9780889773905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.20

Hardcover. Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. The author shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HPN; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226717777
ISBN
9780226717777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.71

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