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Literary studies: general

Paperback. A study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For this second edition Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism. Num Pages: 204 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195112214
ISBN
9780195112214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.63

Hardback. .
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780791096178
ISBN
9780791096178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.79

Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674780286
ISBN
9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.30

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780791078808
ISBN
9780791078808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.69

Paperback. Cantor provides a close reading of 11 of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes common to each text. While granting emphasis to Odets' poetic style, Cantor gives due notice to Odets' achievements as both mythmaker and voice of the Jewish middle class. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810837324
ISBN
9780810837324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 89.94

Paperback. This collection of screenplays includes "The Servant", "The Pumpkin Eater", "The Quiller Memorandum", "Accident", "The Go-Between", "The Last Tycoon", "Langrishe, Go Down", and "The Proust Screenplay." Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; APFD; APTD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203192
ISBN
9780571203192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. These collected screenplays include "The Go-Between", "The Proust Screenplay", "Victory", "Turtle Diary", and "Reunion". Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFD; APTD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Edition
Main
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203246
ISBN
9780571203246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 21.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647586
ISBN
9780691647586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.86

Paperback. Offering insights into urban literacy and conceptions of reading, this text explores the controversy that ensued over the alleged discovery of St Augustine's bones in Pavia, Italy, in 1695. Re-examining the dispute over Augustine's bones illuminates aspects of Catholic spirituality at the time. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; HRCM; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558493889
ISBN
9781558493889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.08

paperback. The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. This book offers the study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DSB; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419229
ISBN
9780821419229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.74

Hardback. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441936
ISBN
9780801441936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486794822
ISBN
9780486794822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.14

hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804714846
ISBN
9780804714846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.18

Paperback. One of the film critics, a speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, and a producer on Broadway, Robert E Sherwood scripted some of the popular plays and films of his day. This biography traces his obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558496194
ISBN
9781558496194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Paperback. Recounts the author's life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation. This title documents the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. Editor(s): Painter, Nell Irvin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Trade Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437959
ISBN
9780140437959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

Hardback. Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 697.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804774437
ISBN
9780804774437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.09

Hardback. This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal who lived at the end of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of Russo-Jewish identity in the modern period and of larger questions of hybridity and performativity. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732901
ISBN
9780804732901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.30

Hardcover. Explores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472108794
ISBN
9780472108794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.06

paperback. This anthology of contemporary work by Indonesian poets presents a series of ongoing analyses detailing the political and social shifts that have influenced the work of particular poets. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 389 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2PGNA; 3JJP; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 661. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896802162
ISBN
9780896802162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.56

Paperback. Considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. This book explores the effect of this linguistic mischief on the representation of all the Henriad's major figures. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 18. .
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256631
ISBN
9780823256631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.76

Paperback. This is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two 16th-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del Cortegiano" (1528) and "Giovanni Della Casas Galateo" (1558). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; 3JB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ2; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739054
ISBN
9780804739054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Applies and brings up to date the methods of interpretation Berger has developed during the past half-century in his studies of literature, drama, philosophy, social and cultural studies, and the visual arts Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 148 x 14. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245178
ISBN
9780823245178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Hardback. Considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. This book explores the effect of this linguistic mischief on the representation of all the Henriad's major figures. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256624
ISBN
9780823256624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.22

hardcover. This is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two 16th-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del Cortegiano" (1528) and "Giovanni Della Casas Galateo" (1558). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; 3JB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ2; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804739047
ISBN
9780804739047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.43

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