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Literary studies: general

Hardback. This book presents a selection of the writings of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), one of the leading bibliographers of the 20th century and, along with R. B. McKerrow and A. W. Pollard, the founder of the New Bibliography that dominated 20th-century textual studies. Series: Great Bibliographers S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810833999
ISBN
9780810833999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.27

Paperback. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion. Editor(s): Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894619
ISBN
9780801894619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.57

Hardcover. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488. Clean copy in clean dustwrapper.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Arizona Press Arizona
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
148
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0212303
ISBN
9780816512706
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. "An excellent consideration of the religious dimension of symbol in Coleridge's thought and its relation to English Romanticism."-Library Journal Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780823221134
ISBN
9780823221134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.25

Paperback. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject of reading. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892424
ISBN
9780801892424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.28

Hardcover. The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 701.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804719353
ISBN
9780804719353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Hardcover. Begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th Century. This book examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021464
ISBN
9780674021464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.93

Hardcover. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. This work explores the rich historical and literary backgrounds of this distinctly Irish phenomenon. It discusses the major works of both authors. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 illustrations, notes, bibiography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631231
ISBN
9780815631231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268027759
ISBN
9780268027759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.30

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.96

Hardcover. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936055
ISBN
9780813936055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.08

Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184616
ISBN
9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.69

Paperback. "A Map of the Island" is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken from the distance of the Canadian prairies. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
70
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643711
ISBN
9780888643711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Rashundari Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last when she was forty-one - ruminates on her very individual understanding of bhakti beliefs as well as the new times that were unfolding around her. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Zubaan India
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017906
ISBN
9789381017906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.76

Hardback. Editor(s): Kaufman, Alexander; Armstrong, Dorsey; Hughes, Shaun. F. D. Series: MIP Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures. Num Pages: 370 pages, 49 full color. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ABC; 2ACSX; CF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580442190
ISBN
9781580442190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.86

hardcover. This book examines the ways in which the literary genre of hagiography and the hermeneutical paradigm of Biblical typology together entered into the construction of "the Renaissance" as a canon and period. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726436
ISBN
9780804726436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.40

Hardback. A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Editor(s): Levander, Caroline Field; Levine, Robert S. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 183 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1216.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405198813
ISBN
9781405198813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.16

Hardback. Designed as an aid for librarians and teachers who are interested in exposing students to the cultures of Latino people, this reference provides grades K-12 with an understanding of the people, history, and art, as well as the political and social problems of Latin America and Spain. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSB; GBC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810846692
ISBN
9780810846692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.22

Hardback. Explores the construction and emergence of 'Bohemia' in American literature and culture. This title presents a study that follows la vie boheme from its earliest expressions in the US until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760836
ISBN
9780804760836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.29

Paperback. * First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka. Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated: 16, int b/w. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Time Warner Books Uk
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349115931
ISBN
9780349115931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271306
ISBN
9780823271306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.92

"At Zero Point" presents a new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the 18th century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the 17th century. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813120393
ISBN
9780813120393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.33

Hardback. This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-12th century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks questions including what were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728102
ISBN
9780804728102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.23

Hardback. "The Law Code of Visnu" ("Vaisnava-dharmasastra") is one of the of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in Kashmir. This title contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on fifteen manuscripts, an annotated English translation, and an introduction evaluating its textual history. Editor(s): Olivelle, Patrick. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2B; 2BM; CJB; DSBB; HBJF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051393
ISBN
9780674051393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.76

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