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Literary studies: general

Paperback. The once and future history of sex and gender Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073793
ISBN
9780252073793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.02

Paperback. From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the Paris Review has elicited many of the most arresting, illuminating, and revealing discussions of life and craft from the greatest writers of our age. Series: The Paris Review. Num Pages: 524 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 35. Weight in Grams: 562. 448 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Gourevitch, Philip. For more than half a century, the "Paris Review" magazine has spoken with most of the leading novelists, poets and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as an essential record of the writing life. This book contains an original selection of sixteen of these most celebrated interviews. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 35. Weight: 562.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
524
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841959252
ISBN
9781841959252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.50

Hardcover. Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Num Pages: 380 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125364
ISBN
9781905125364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.07

Paperback. This Guide addresses the key concerns of postcolonial literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639397
ISBN
9780748639397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. Examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan "Brahman" (d c1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 394 pages, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FKA; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286467
ISBN
9780520286467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Watson, Nicola J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555710
ISBN
9780199555710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions examines the interactions of rival-and incompatible-concepts of the mind in a highly original way. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487522285
ISBN
9781487522285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 43.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Paulin, Roger. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 10. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472577184
ISBN
9781472577184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.97

Paperback. Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? This title argues that although Shakespeare strikingly dramatizes various kinds of uncertainty and scepticism, including scepticism about what it is to be human, his work can still serve as as source of existential wisdom and guidance. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691234
ISBN
9780748691234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.11

Paperback. Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. This book surveys Barthes' work in prose. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 13 halftones and 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB; GTE; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 115 x 9. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192801593
ISBN
9780192801593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Series: Cambridge Contexts in Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 216. Series: Cambridge Contexts in Literature. 128 pages. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 7. Weight: 218.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521729826
ISBN
9780521729826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.19

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KLN0018242
ISBN
9781860499593
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290. The Biography of Joe Orton. 320 pages, illustrations. This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747560142
ISBN
9780747560142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Hardback. Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Editor(s): Perkins, Nicholas. Series: Studies in Medieval Romance. Num Pages: 311 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843900
ISBN
9781843843900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Paperback. Editor(s): Marshall, C. W.; Hawkins, Tom. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472588838
ISBN
9781472588838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AN; DSBD; HBTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783272037
ISBN
9781783272037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Presents a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), who as a poet, philosopher and critic, stands as one of the seminal figures of his time. His some of the many works include: "Lyrical Ballads" (1799), "Biographia Literaria" (1817), and "Poetical Works". Editor(s): Fenton, James. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
9780571209811
ISBN
9780571209811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.82

Hardback. Translator(s): Frisch, Shelley. Num Pages: 584 pages, 64 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 255 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1022.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151984
ISBN
9780691151984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. There are many interpretations of the word 'Gothic'. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can better interpret and understand society today. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, Approx 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199586790
ISBN
9780199586790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348. The Rise of Maori Literature. 288 pages, black & white illustrations. From Silence to Voice portrays the early 'silence' of Maori in New Zealand literature - characterised in caricature by colonial writers, then in increasingly sympathetic portraits from the likes of Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame and Noel Hilliard - through to the new and challenging works presented by Maori writers themselves. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1MBN; DSBH5. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 16. Weight: 346.
Publisher
Oratia Media
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781877514111
ISBN
9781877514111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 30.73

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