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Hardcover. Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes's Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes's experiences in South Yorkshire - in town and country, educationally, in literature and love - were decisive in forming him as the poet of his subsequent fame. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499349
- ISBN
- 9781137499349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.01
€ 65.01
Hardback. In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239473
- ISBN
- 9780312239473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Ebbesen, Sten. Num Pages: 263 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 171 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772898575
- ISBN
- 9788772898575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Hardcover. In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations. Editor(s): DePastino, Todd. Series: Subterranean Lives Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- None ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813538068
- ISBN
- 9780813538068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.65
€ 160.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; VXFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 261 x 37. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ibis Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892542161
- ISBN
- 9780892542161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.82
€ 32.99
€ 30.82
Paperback. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 208. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0005994
- ISBN
- 9780099302230
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Border Lines S. Num Pages: 171 pages, Illustrationsports. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; BG; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854112606
- ISBN
- 9781854112606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.21
€ 26.21
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135315
- ISBN
- 9781571135315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.17
€ 98.17
Paperback. After first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- SKU
- V9780822329169
- ISBN
- 9780822329169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631912
- ISBN
- 9780691631912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.78
€ 191.78
Hardback. In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Series: Studies in Antisemitism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803245037
- ISBN
- 9780803245037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823250974
- ISBN
- 9780823250974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
The Classical Moment. Views from Seven Literatures.
. Ed(S): Holst-Warhaft, Gail; McCann, David R...
Hardback. The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such "moments" have in common, how they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary creation. Editor(s): Holst-Warhaft, Gail; McCann, David R. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847694198
- ISBN
- 9780847694198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.29
€ 148.29
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117669
- ISBN
- 9780691117669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.82€ 68.12
€ 88.82
€ 68.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040573
- ISBN
- 9780252040573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.34
€ 118.34
paperback. A collection of poems that find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. It comments on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 203. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071201
- ISBN
- 9780252071201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.22
€ 27.99
€ 26.22
Hardback. Scholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900. Editor(s): Widmer, Ellen; Chang, Kang-i Sun. Num Pages: 560 pages, 41 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728713
- ISBN
- 9780804728713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 232.54
€ 232.54
paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140081954
- ISBN
- 9780140081954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. An account of Chinese literary modernism, written from the perspective of Republican China. Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time and analyzes pivotal issues, such as decadence and Orientalism. Series: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220645
- ISBN
- 9780520220645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903039694
- ISBN
- 9781903039694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.89
€ 20.99
€ 17.89
Paperback. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, this title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789972
- ISBN
- 9780226789972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.88
€ 35.99
€ 28.88
By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557530752
- ISBN
- 9781557530752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.93
€ 30.93
Paperback. Part of a series, this collection contains essays delivered as papers, which focus on 18th-century British culture. Other titles in the series, by various authors, include "The Crisis in Historical Materialism", "The Freudian Subject" and "Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema". Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333482889
- ISBN
- 9780333482889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.35
€ 69.35
paperback. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2BXK; DSB; HBJF1; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138883871
- ISBN
- 9781138883871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.65
€ 63.65