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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Writing Images. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 298 pages, black & white illustrations. Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BOYE6
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134707
ISBN
9781571134707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 39.12

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

€ 114.57

Hardcover. Editor(s): Jasper, David; Youzhuang, Geng; Wang, Hai. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CFP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781481304184
ISBN
9781481304184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.57

Paperback. Presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. This book develops a perspective variously historical, philosophical, and cultural by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317395
ISBN
9780822317395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

Paperback. This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804721790
ISBN
9780804721790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Hardcover. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHB; DSBB; HRCG1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 198 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Zondervan United States
Edition
Subsequent
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310201755
ISBN
9780310201755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.10

Paperback. Presents the text of Chapman's translation of the "Odyssey" (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. This book also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the "Odyssey". Editor(s): Nicoll, Allardyce. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691048918
ISBN
9780691048918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.87

Hardback. The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231128964
ISBN
9780231128964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.20
€ 81.84

Paperback. "Book Of Stones" is very much made out of the things around the author - living in the new South Africa, being part of a continent and its life and history and processes. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
59
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857546408
ISBN
9781857546408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. This book presents her biography that pieces together the story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her poems. Num Pages: 602 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
602
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520203457
ISBN
9780520203457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.52

Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813118888
ISBN
9780813118888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.30

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
€ 27.29

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hamalian, Leo. Num Pages: 259 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633083
ISBN
9780838633083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.65

Hardback. Bale examines how anti-semitic images developed and came to endure far beyond the Middle Ages. Series Editor(s): Minnis, Alastair; Boyde, Patrick; Burrow, Professor John; Copeland, Rita; Deyermond, Alan; Dronke, Peter; Palmer, Nigel; Wetherbee, Winthrop. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 284 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600. Bale examines how anti-semitic images developed and came to endure far beyond the Middle Ages. Series Editor(s): Minnis, Alastair; Boyde, Patrick; Burrow, Professor John; Copeland, Rita; Deyermond, Alan; Dronke, Peter; Palmer, Nigel; Wetherbee, Winthrop. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 284 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. Inscription to previous owner on FFEP. DW has light nicks, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0017585
ISBN
9780521863544
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. Boycotts have a closely connected history to the growth of the British Empire and the birth of a consumer society. This volume examines the history of consumer protests in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in anticolonial struggles. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731034
ISBN
9780804731034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.43

Paperback. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. With new preface. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148153
ISBN
9780231148153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.06

Paperback. Part of the Casebooks Series Editor(s): Holdsworth, R.V. Series: Casebook S. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333383384
ISBN
9780333383384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.22

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135759
ISBN
9781571135759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823274017
ISBN
9780823274017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.60

Hardcover. The popular Poe - "The Raven", "Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Black Cat" - has inspired a generation of readers long disenchanted with the normative tradition of American literature. This title contends that the great myth of Edgar Allan Poe has damaged the popular reader's understanding of Poe's corpus and the historian's depiction of Poe's life. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602583221
ISBN
9781602583221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.29

Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730013
ISBN
9780804730013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.11

A four-volume set that features a copy of "Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memories of the Year 1793", "Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker", "Wieland: Or the Transformation", and "Ormond: Or the Secret Witness". Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 1478 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 105. Weight in Grams: 2786.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
1478
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841481
ISBN
9781603841481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.87
€ 134.64

Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Greek & English
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856681721
ISBN
9780856681721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.55

Hardback. Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127125
ISBN
9780691127125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.56
€ 54.48

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