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Paperback. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329475
- ISBN
- 9780820329475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.36
€ 47.36
Paperback. A biography of Ellison that focuses on the author's early life. Containing photographs, it draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison's relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the writer's path from poverty in dust bowl Oklahoma to his rise among the literary elite. Num Pages: 544 pages, 21 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329932
- ISBN
- 9780820329932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.95
€ 50.95
Hardcover. Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330051
- ISBN
- 9780820330051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.58
€ 63.58
Paperback. For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330594
- ISBN
- 9780820330594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.95
€ 37.95
Paperback. Reveals affinities between antebellum southern and modern American capitalist psychology. This book identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820331126
- ISBN
- 9780820331126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.28
€ 46.28
Paperback. Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist. This work selects the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. Editor(s): Greenspan, Ezra. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332246
- ISBN
- 9780820332246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.37
€ 50.37
Paperback. Drawing on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including aesthetics, anthropology, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, "Shades of Green" demonstrates the agility with which human thought about the natural and the racial leapt across formal epistemological, professional, and artistic boundaries. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820337807
- ISBN
- 9780820337807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.05
€ 47.05
Hardcover. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820343167
- ISBN
- 9780820343167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345000
- ISBN
- 9780820345000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345994
- ISBN
- 9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.75
€ 46.75
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lawler, Traugott; Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Chaucer Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 40. Weight in Grams: 970.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346106
- ISBN
- 9780820346106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.37
€ 165.37
Hardcover. The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. Editor(s): Geltner, Ted. Num Pages: 456 pages, 39 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349237
- ISBN
- 9780820349237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.27
€ 38.99
€ 37.27
Paperback. A collection of poems, artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable; about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession - how what we want redeems and isolates us. This book believes the exploration of the physical and mental selves - fears and desires - is the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822958888
- ISBN
- 9780822958888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.28
€ 18.99
€ 18.28
Paperback. "Keeper" is a book of lyric poems concerned with relationships of different sorts with the natural world, with people and animals, and with the unseen and unknown." Series: Pitt Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822962564
- ISBN
- 9780822962564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.00
€ 18.99
€ 18.00
Paperback. An analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. Editor(s): Whited, Lana A. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826215499
- ISBN
- 9780826215499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.51
€ 48.51
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Pathfinder Books Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 83
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873487290
- ISBN
- 9780873487290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.47
€ 9.47
Hardcover. In the first two essays in this volume - "The Age of Dobie" and "The Age of McMurtry" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652887
- ISBN
- 9780875652887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.20
€ 26.99
€ 26.20
Hardcover. Talks about Birkelbach who writes of the Texas landscape and its people. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. Series: TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653402
- ISBN
- 9780875653402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.37
€ 17.37
Hardcover. Red Steagall brings the cowboy way of life to the public through many different media, including poetry. His poetry speaks in its own right, possessing a musical, songlike quality. His lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall's poems chart the changing of the land and the passing of generations. Series: TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653419
- ISBN
- 9780875653419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.72
€ 19.99
€ 19.72
Hardcover. A collection of songs and poems which tell of a life that began with "bikes and trikes and kites and trees" and has progressed through fatherhood and many days and nights spent on the road. Editor(s): Hill, Billy Bob. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653594
- ISBN
- 9780875653594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.33
€ 17.33
Hardcover. Explores the natural world of Texas - its animal icons like the Hereford or hawk or rattlesnake, the larger-than-life geography, which is the stuff out of which legends are made. Editor(s): Hill, Billy Bob. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653600
- ISBN
- 9780875653600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.37
€ 17.37
Paperback. Features a lyrical writing style and insights into the traumas and triumphs of the human spirit that can make you feel. Published in the "Star-Telegram" from 1991 through 2007, it contains stories that looks at a variety of Texans (a few famous, and all unforgettable) and includes a half-dozen essays from the author about her own colorful life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 b&w photos, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; DN; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653747
- ISBN
- 9780875653747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.89
€ 20.89
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875653952
- ISBN
- 9780875653952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.33
€ 17.33
Paperback. Editor(s): Alter, Judy; Lee, James Ward. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875654263
- ISBN
- 9780875654263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.81
€ 20.99
€ 19.81