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Paperback. Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered in unexamined ways in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere. Editor(s): Davidson, Cathy N.; Hatcher, Jessamyn. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328933
- ISBN
- 9780822328933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. Argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motion is no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures of travel, he posits, must be rethought in this more static light. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803229914
- ISBN
- 9780803229914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Hardback. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California has produced, but a major poet of the 20th century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This text is the final volume in the complete edition of his work. Editor(s): Hunt, Tim. Series: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Num Pages: 1152 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 203 x 66. Weight in Grams: 2381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 1152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738170
- ISBN
- 9780804738170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardback. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture. This title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the 'hybrid Slavonic' of the late seventeenth century through the debates between 'archaists and innovators' of the early 19th century. Translator(s): Levitt, Marcus. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 534 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 534
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843123
- ISBN
- 9781934843123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.10
€ 173.10
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633640
- ISBN
- 9780691633640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.58
€ 144.58
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
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Translator(s): Katz, Vincent. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 520 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115825
- ISBN
- 9780691115825
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 4 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252039621
- ISBN
- 9780252039621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.12
€ 52.12
Hardback. Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857289766
- ISBN
- 9780857289766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.69
€ 133.69
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472085408
- ISBN
- 9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.97
€ 34.99
€ 31.97
Hardback. Examining both why and how Emerson evades the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy, this book entirely rethinks the nature of Emerson's radical individualism and its relation to the possibility of an ethics and a politics. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730150
- ISBN
- 9780804730150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.04
€ 83.04
Hardback. Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This title shows how they attempted to reconstruct the 'bodily integrity' of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press Berkeley
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520219953
- ISBN
- 9780520219953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.03€ 45.84
€ 58.03
€ 45.84
paperback. Offers a perspective on J R R Tolkien's Medievalism. This book explores how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. Editor(s): Chance, Jane. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415473484
- ISBN
- 9780415473484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.90
€ 79.90
Paperback. This text explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. The author challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized worlds of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; HRCC2; HRCC7; HRCC9; HRCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789699
- ISBN
- 9780226789699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has produced in the second part of the twentieth century. This collection of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of Brodsky's friends, publishers, editors, translators, and fellow poets. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana; Jones, Chris; Weissbort, Daniel. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 604 pages, 71. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 604
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843161
- ISBN
- 9781934843161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.10
€ 132.10
Paperback. Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226424156
- ISBN
- 9780226424156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.02
€ 31.99
€ 25.02
Paperback. This second edition of Colin MacCabe's critical text on James Joyce adds new material that places it in its political and historical context. The argument links politics and literature, sex and language, providing an account of Joyce that places him continually in both Irish and European history. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333531532
- ISBN
- 9780333531532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.10
€ 132.10
Paperback. This edition of the letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson has been expanded and revised to include 59 letters discovered after the book's original publication in 1979. The additional letters and new annotations clarify the correspondence and illuminate the writers' friendship. Editor(s): Karlinsky, Simon. Num Pages: 398 pages, 26 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220805
- ISBN
- 9780520220805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.56
€ 35.99
€ 26.56
paperback. An illustrated work that explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to the more modern Angela Carter and, of course, Walt Disney. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, map, portraits (some colour). BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 656. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022769
- ISBN
- 9780099479512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Simon Weinberg is dead. On a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - siblings, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571221912
- ISBN
- 9780571221912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.82
€ 21.99
€ 17.82
Hardcover. Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Editor(s): Osborne, Dora. Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook. Num Pages: 218 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CF; DSB; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139238
- ISBN
- 9781571139238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. Conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. This work focuses on relations between Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", including the role of the narrator. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228478
- ISBN
- 9780823228478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.21
€ 108.21
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€ 33.61
€ 46.99
€ 33.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, notes, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 249 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850365535
- ISBN
- 9780850365535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.52
€ 23.99
€ 20.52