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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Nusser, Tanja. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139016
ISBN
9781571139016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604742
ISBN
9780230604742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.83

Paperback. Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557534798
ISBN
9781557534798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.13

Paperback. The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary feminists, that George Eliot was more radical and more feminist than commonly thought. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487844
ISBN
9781349487844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.57

Hardcover. Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109407
ISBN
9780230109407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 76 x 107 x 6. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585101245
ISBN
9781585101245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; HBJD; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349388271
ISBN
9781349388271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.56

Hardback. Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. This title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789965
ISBN
9780226789965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.82
€ 78.49

Paperback. Series: Focus Classical Library. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585102815
ISBN
9781585102815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Gale, Monica R. Num Pages: 200 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688898
ISBN
9780856688898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.05

Hardback. The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Howe, Anthony. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 733 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
733
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199558360
ISBN
9780199558360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 244.44

paperback. The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. This book offers the study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DSB; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419229
ISBN
9780821419229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.96

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
405
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935096559
ISBN
9781935096559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.59

Paperback. A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349319794
ISBN
9781349319794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.27

hardcover. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802090317
ISBN
9780802090317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.93

paperback. An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison s move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348290
ISBN
9780822348290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. Shares with a number of recent studies an interest in the historical development of English in the United States, in how it became a central discipline in the humanities, and in what the ideological affiliations of literature and literary study might be. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804716918
ISBN
9780804716918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349184460
ISBN
9781349184460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Hardback. John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739137932
ISBN
9780739137932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.95

Hardback. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403987785
ISBN
9781403987785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.89
€ 80.28

Hardcover. A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process. Editor(s): Caughie, Pamela L. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235083
ISBN
9780230235083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.39

Hardback. IN Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423009
ISBN
9780857423009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.54

Hardcover. This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Num Pages: 516 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804715614
ISBN
9780804715614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.52

Hardback. A study of the nurse in Greek literature from Homer to Euripides. Depicted as a central figure of authority, the author focuses on the verbal manifestations of the nurse's authority - advice, approval, diasapproval, directions and orders. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822630661
ISBN
9780822630661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.72

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