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Literary studies: general

paperback. Editor(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226750521
ISBN
9780226750521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.41

Paperback. Provides a representation of French poet Paul Verlaine's oeuvre. This selection includes a number of Verlaine's early works; poems from his middle period, which reflect his on-again, off-again conversion to Catholicism; and poems from his late period, when he fell prey to poverty and disease. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Num Pages: 292 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226853451
ISBN
9780226853451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.95

hardcover. Through innovative readings of Sophocles, the Marquis de Sade and Mario Vargas Llosa, Binding Violence examines literary visions of the constitution of autonomous polities in the context of historical emergences of democracy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804763301
ISBN
9780804763301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.17

paperback. Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors. While Festus' aggressive pursuit deters the young woman from considering him as a husband, the indecisive Anne wavers between light-hearted Bob and gentle, steadfast John. This is a tale of love and desire. Num Pages: 416 pages, facsim., map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435405
ISBN
9780140435405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.29

Hardback. A study of the representation of astrology and celestial portents in the medieval and later literature of Ireland and Wales, Fiery Shapes examines the mysterious figure of the druid, who was allegedly able to read the future from rainclouds; Taliesin and Merlin; and the Welsh gentleman poet of the later Middle Ages and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, Six black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; DSBB; DSBD; HBLC1; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780199571840
ISBN
9780199571840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.40

Hardback. Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780748636839
ISBN
9780748636839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 90.66

Hardback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780748641352
ISBN
9780748641352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.32
€ 79.72

Hardback. Centred on the relationship between the personal lives of the writers John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence and the works they produced this intriguing study develops a portrait of a circle of writers who significantly influenced the development of modernism in Britain. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780748641482
ISBN
9780748641482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 107.06

Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32. BIC Classification: ACXD7; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 799.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780801446740
ISBN
9780801446740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.89

Hardback. This study of four major poets - Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin - examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be "about" its own process of saying. Translator(s): Whobrey, William. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780804724692
ISBN
9780804724692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.61

Hardback. Critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions Series: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Num Pages: 230 pages, 2 maps, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1QDA; 3D; DSBB; HBJH; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780814760666
ISBN
9780814760666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.92

hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804769549
ISBN
9780804769549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.85

Hardback. This volume examines Tolstoys unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the text, including historical fiction, war drama, romance and realism. Editor(s): Cooke, Brett. Series: Critical Insights. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Grey House Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9781619253933
ISBN
9781619253933
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.80

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826488848
ISBN
9780826488848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.00

hardcover. Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415994675
ISBN
9780415994675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.68

Paperback. Investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the fortune a man can count on to last. This work studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. It addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114675
ISBN
9780691114675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1171.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646657
ISBN
9780691646657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 299.89
€ 220.95

hardcover. The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. Editor(s): Humm, Maggie. Num Pages: 512 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1210. 512 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Humm, Maggie. The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 33. Weight: 1210.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748635528
ISBN
9780748635528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.81
€ 194.57

hardcover. This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638451
ISBN
9780748638451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 90.12

paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816683840
ISBN
9780816683840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571133717
ISBN
9781571133717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.58

paperback. This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748640034
ISBN
9780748640034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.49

hardcover. This book examines the ways in which the literary genre of hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology together entered into the construction of "the Renaissance" as a canon and period. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726436
ISBN
9780804726436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.40

hardcover. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726665
ISBN
9780804726665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.04

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