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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land . Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284399
ISBN
9781349284399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228508
ISBN
9780823228508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 588 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 999.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
588
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649580
ISBN
9780691649580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 284.69

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Random House USA Inc India
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385721981
ISBN
9780385721981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.39

hardcover. This volume of the Record of Early English Drama (REED) series combines the records of the counties of Dorset and Cornwall, both located in the southwest of England. Editor(s): Hays, Rosalind C.; Joyce, Sally; McGee, C.Edward; Newlyn, Evelyn S. Series: Records of Early English Drama. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802043795
ISBN
9780802043795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 209.41

Hardback. 'Between Genders' demonstrates how gender differentiation becomes a defining issue in early French Modernism. It also explores how border crossings among seemingly distinct terms of identification (heterosexuality, homosexualities, androgyny, etc.) put in question the idea of identity and provoke reconsideration of other important issues. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138450
ISBN
9780874138450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.17

Hardcover. Hypocrisy and prejudice compel a principled mulatto teacher to desert a steady job and a socially prominent fiance. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Edition
New ed of 1928 ed
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780837111278
ISBN
9780837111278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.74
€ 26.00

Hardcover. A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Editor(s): Van Zyl Smit, Betine. Series: HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118347751
ISBN
9781118347751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.72

Hardback. Editor(s): Stanivukovic, Goran V. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403975577
ISBN
9781403975577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.78

Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 144 x 31. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
East European Monographs
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880337038
ISBN
9780880337038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.82

Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724647
ISBN
9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631615
ISBN
9780691631615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.03

Hardcover. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295991320
ISBN
9780295991320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

Hardback. These essays on J.M. Coetzee adopt a variety of approaches to his work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's "oeuvre", as well as essays that analyze in more detail individual novels. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham; Watson, Stephen. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333569122
ISBN
9780333569122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.73

Hardback. Series: Index of American Periodical Verse. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810814806
ISBN
9780810814806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 212.86

Hardback. This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies through six distinct, individual pieces of rigorous and innovative new work. Editor(s): Jones, Clara; Hogg, Emily. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497499
ISBN
9781137497499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.94

Paperback. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153162
ISBN
9780691153162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Editor(s): Powell, Anna; Smith, Prof Andrew. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403949295
ISBN
9781403949295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardback. The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.' Num Pages: 257 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621466
ISBN
9780230621466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardback. Presents the history of German literature from the Reformation and Renaissance to the late twentieth century, in the context of Germanic culture, over the whole German-speaking area of Europe. This companion conveys the "feel" of a particular period and the preoccupations of the public to which writers addressed their plays, novels, and poems. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ACG; 3J; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 814.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631171225
ISBN
9780631171225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.23

Hardback. Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Editor(s): Cartlidge, Neil. Series: Studies in Medieval Romance. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843047
ISBN
9781843843047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Malory presents chivalry as a dynamic code shaped and reshaped by communities ranging from the nation to the province, from hermits to women. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530113
ISBN
9781349530113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Paperback. This text uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq wars to argue that when a society labels certain human traits 'feminine', that society can more easily manipulate men to war. It also looks at the ways Western cultural attitudes toward sex fuel wars. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623033
ISBN
9780230623033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.88

Hardcover. Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230215597
ISBN
9780230215597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

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