Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The story of Lawrence Durrell and his enigmatic first wife, Nancy: love, betrayal and literary endeavour set among the glittering intellectuals of 1930s London, Paris and Corfu Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087945
- ISBN
- 9781844087945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Hardback. Arabic novelists are increasingly finding a source of literary innovation and political transgression in the language and ideas of mediaeval Sufi thinkers and writers. This book presents close readings of the work of the Egyptian Gamal Al-Ghitany, the Algerian Taher Ouettar and the Touareg Libyan Ibrahim Al-Koni, all of whom have turned to Sufism. Series Editor(s): El-Enany, Rasheed. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641406
- ISBN
- 9780748641406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.95€ 102.41
€ 106.95
€ 102.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Imprint unknown
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781292186320
- ISBN
- 9781292186320
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Condition: New
€ 9.82
€ 9.82
Paperback. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 291 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447948834
- ISBN
- 9781447948834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Hardcover. This book introduces new research about the history of attention--in politics, medicine, science, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war--to reframe British Romantic poetry as proposing and eliciting alternative modes of watchfulness, attention, and neglect. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796958
- ISBN
- 9780804796958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Hardcover. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516. Rethinking Historicism. 256 pages. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight: 520.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646135
- ISBN
- 9780748646135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.71
€ 138.71
Hardcover. New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; HBTW; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139269
- ISBN
- 9781571139269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.99
€ 97.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SparkNotes
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781411469860
- ISBN
- 9781411469860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.27
€ 8.99
€ 8.27
Hardcover. Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book brings together the sensation, realist, and modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analyzing women's trajectories within and beyond the city but also the nation, as urban passengers, and more. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748676941
- ISBN
- 9780748676941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.95€ 102.99
€ 106.95
€ 102.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; DS; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253202727
- ISBN
- 9780253202727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardcover. Polybius' overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history describes the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite its incomplete state; all but the first five of its original forty books survive. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996595
- ISBN
- 9780674996595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.91
€ 33.99
€ 28.91
Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319409962
- ISBN
- 9783319409962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.94
€ 123.94
Paperback. Black Roads traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carlton's The Black Prophet (from which the title is taken) to more contemporary work by authors Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 231 x 5. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Quinnipiac University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780990468646
- ISBN
- 9780990468646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.02
€ 13.99
€ 12.02
Hardcover. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248579
- ISBN
- 9780812248579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.56€ 31.52
€ 85.56
€ 31.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 135 x 4. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Publisher
- Thimble Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780903355230
- ISBN
- 9780903355230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.14
€ 9.14
Paperback. Cross-gender casting was an ongoing phenomenon in the French theatre during the reign of Louis XIV. This book explores the trend and related gender issues in different performance contexts and fills an important gap in the history of French theatre, providing a new insight into wider theoretical questions of gender and theatricality. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; AS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320810
- ISBN
- 9781137320810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.55
€ 63.55
Paperback. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period constitute some of the most remarkable 20th century analyses of the emergence of modern society. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire and Brecht to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022294
- ISBN
- 9780674022294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.97
€ 36.99
€ 30.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Strassle, Thomas; Unser, Margit. Translator(s): Hoban, Wieland. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424334
- ISBN
- 9780857424334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.14
€ 23.99
€ 19.14
Hardback. This book is an ethnographic journey into the literary-political field of Palestinian poetry in a secular age. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 2CSR; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776462
- ISBN
- 9780804776462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.95
€ 70.95
Paperback. Irish writers who were considered Irish by the English, and English by the Irish are discussed here - including Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sheridan le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen and James Joyce. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530 Paperback, white spine. Keywords: 20th Century Ireland. 280pp
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KON0819945
- ISBN
- 9781900621076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 28.00€ 22.00
€ 28.00
€ 22.00
Hardback. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins' theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10, 7 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420769
- ISBN
- 9781421420769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.46€ 51.62
€ 56.46
€ 51.62
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409438199
- ISBN
- 9781409438199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.76
€ 112.76
Paperback. This volume demonstrates the importance of Slavoj Zizek's work to literary criticism and theory by showing how his practice of reading theory and literature can be used in numerous theoretical frameworks and applied to literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres, creating new interpretations of familiar works. Editor(s): Sbriglia, Russell. Series: [SIC] Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363187
- ISBN
- 9780822363187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Series: Critical conditions: Field Day essays & monographs. Num Pages: 315 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 315
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859182512
- ISBN
- 9781859182512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.00€ 24.15
€ 29.00
€ 24.15