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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers. Editor(s): McIntire, Gabrielle. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107672574
ISBN
9781107672574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.73

Paperback. Translator(s): Ahl, Frederick. Series: Masters of Latin Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 8. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801494321
ISBN
9780801494321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.40

Paperback. These poems perform an archaeology on lives lived. In this his fourth collection, Adam Thorpe continues his engagement with history, the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224063852
ISBN
9780224063852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. This book tells his story. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846143304
ISBN
9781846143304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Features Gothic narratives, stories of the macabre and supernatural tales which demonstrate the author's instinct for weaving terror and suspense into scenes of ordinary everyday life. Editor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FF; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897334419
ISBN
9780897334419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.38

Hardback. In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing Series: Contemporary Irish Writers. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782050841
ISBN
9781782050841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.00
€ 38.37

Paperback. A series featuring various poets selecting and introducing poets of the past. It, by choice of poems and the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature. Editor(s): Oswald, Alice. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 74.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571232291
ISBN
9780571232291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138859647
ISBN
9781138859647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Hardcover. Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. This study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; AV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748684618
ISBN
9780748684618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

Paperback. Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719043574
ISBN
9780719043574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.29

Paperback. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. 294 pages. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight: 406.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224902
ISBN
9780520224902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 291.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Edition
1st ed. 1974
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349020003
ISBN
9781349020003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Hardback. Num Pages: 27 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319544502
ISBN
9783319544502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.72

Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Eup. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402316
ISBN
9781474402316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.85
€ 120.22

Paperback. Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435849
ISBN
9780140435849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. Brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. This volume contains self-narratives that propel themselves and their authors to the centre of critical debates concerning the status of the subject, the nature of self-representation, the globalisation of the regional, and more. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778387110
ISBN
9788778387110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.24

Paperback. Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, this book maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716694
ISBN
9780814716694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Li Mengyang (1473 1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li's quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; BGH; DSBD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674970595
ISBN
9780674970595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582772281
ISBN
9780582772281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Paperback. A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393931686
ISBN
9780393931686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical novel and her most topical one. The introduction to this new edition considers its autobiographical overtones as well as its social context, and includes revised notes and bibliography. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540808
ISBN
9780199540808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405147248
ISBN
9781405147248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.77

Hardback. Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in Hard Times and Dickens's sentimentality. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137558701
ISBN
9781137558701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137581112
ISBN
9781137581112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.37

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