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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719066337
ISBN
9780719066337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488320
ISBN
9780801488320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.02

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441219
ISBN
9780801441219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.70

Hardback. A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454683
ISBN
9781137454683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.17

In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and colonial adventure stories competed for the sympathies of their readers. While one form questions a system that proclaims male superiority and the right to dominate others, the second celebrates British male victories over ""savage"" landscapes, animals, and people. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, works cited, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813029443
ISBN
9780813029443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.94
€ 63.94

Hardcover. With sections on "England at the Margins," "Researching the Renaissance," "The Human Figure on the Stage," and "Artificial Persons," this collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary criticism. Editor(s): Orlin, Lena Cowen. Num Pages: 318 pages, 17 black-&-whites, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910987
ISBN
9781575910987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.44

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480614
ISBN
9780801480614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.11

Hardcover. Num Pages: 456 pages, 3 photos. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472098712
ISBN
9780472098712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.75
€ 81.16

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Num Pages: 314 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137584854
ISBN
9781137584854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.00

Paperback. Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349447213
ISBN
9781349447213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.61

Hardcover. Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137277558
ISBN
9781137277558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Hardback. Examines the role of familial relationships in nineteenth-century English literature Num Pages: 276 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754597
ISBN
9780838754597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.01

Hardcover. In this thoughtful study, Leilei Chen embraces travel writing as a means of understanding Chinese "otherness" and discovering one's self in a globalized world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889774407
ISBN
9780889774407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11
€ 58.52

Hardcover. Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future." Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504851
ISBN
9780674504851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.34

Hardback. Offering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721745
ISBN
9780804721745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.30

Hardback. Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, the author examines Henry James' subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237252
ISBN
9780812237252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.63

Hardcover. Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit. Series: Asian Cities. Num Pages: 282 pages, 11 black and white; 0 full color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089645876
ISBN
9789089645876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.84

Hardcover. This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230575332
ISBN
9780230575332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

Paperback. A unique and original reading of the American imaginary Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611680003
ISBN
9781611680003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.18

Paperback. Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1F; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631644
ISBN
9780815631644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.48

Hardback. This book breaks the assumption that the racial tension the in 9/11 novels lies solely in the dynamic between Americans and terrorists. It also interrogates post-9/11 constructions of whiteness and the treatment of African-American characters." Num Pages: 129 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319508436
ISBN
9783319508436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.79

Hardcover. These essays, in honour of Andre Crepin, reflect the wide range of his interests in Old and Middle English, from "Beowulf" to Malory. The theme is heroism, as abstract and reality, and the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Chaucer's Knight to Sir Lancelot. Editor(s): Carruthers, Leo. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 174 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859914154
ISBN
9780859914154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.28

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

€ 125.83

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691626864
ISBN
9780691626864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.74

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