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hardcover. Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across three tumultuous centuries, from Wales' union with England in 1536, to its industrialisation in the early nineteenth-century. Uniquely. Editor(s): Mottram, Stewart; Prescott, Sarah. Num Pages: 248 pages, Includes 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AFW; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781409445098
- ISBN
- 9781409445098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.91
€ 185.91
Hardback. Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead - this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Num Pages: 211 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190309
- ISBN
- 9781845190309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.51
€ 129.51
Hardcover. Aims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust's mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer's son to her lifelong worries about her son's sexuality, health problems, and talent. It explores the culture of fin de siecle France. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056425
- ISBN
- 9780226056425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.96
€ 32.99
€ 25.96
Paperback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816637751
- ISBN
- 9780816637751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Paperback. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 396 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Donahue, Neil H. New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134554
- ISBN
- 9781571134554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 42.34
€ 44.99
€ 42.34
Paperback. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. This work gives us a portrait of the whole man. Num Pages: 684 pages, 26 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBF; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 684
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206892
- ISBN
- 9780520206892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.42
€ 38.99
€ 28.42
Num Pages: 195 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813119397
- ISBN
- 9780813119397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.09
€ 46.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572411791
- ISBN
- 9781572411791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.40
€ 37.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325994
- ISBN
- 9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems from the "haiku" to rap music and trace their history" Editor(s): Finch, Annie; Varnes, Katherine. Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067251
- ISBN
- 9780472067251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.55
€ 44.55
Num Pages: 260 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493917
- ISBN
- 9781611493917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 142.49
€ 142.49
Paperback. Editor(s): DeGregorio, Scott. Series: Medieval European Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933202099
- ISBN
- 9781933202099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
paperback. A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781584657040
- ISBN
- 9781584657040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.40
€ 20.99
€ 18.40
Focuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237436
- ISBN
- 9780812237436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.23
€ 76.23
Paperback. A survey of the roots and origins of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's works. Biletzky also explores the relationship between Singer and Shalom Aleichem and I.L. Peretz, offering an analysis which synthesizes the Jewish and the Yiddish in Singer's thought and writing. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819198297
- ISBN
- 9780819198297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.63
€ 80.63
Hardback. Less Rightly Said is a detailed study of polemical literature in sixteenth-century France that explores the role of offense ("scandal") in a religious and a rhetorical sense and traces the emergence of a new political genre through both canonical polemical works and popular satires and invectives. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804762922
- ISBN
- 9780804762922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.65
€ 92.65
Paperback. Analyzing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of fiction from the English-speaking world, this text includes: the influence of early psychological writings on fiction; fiction from the rich post-war period; post-structuralist theory; postmodernism and magic realism; and feminist theory. Editor(s): Wheeler, Kathleen. Num Pages: 456 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631212119
- ISBN
- 9780631212119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.32
€ 61.32
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691604657
- ISBN
- 9780691604657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416873
- ISBN
- 9780900416873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.03
€ 131.03
Hardback. A collection of lectures from leading writers and critics, including Nadine Gordimer ("Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics"), Cynthia Ozick ("What Henry James Knew"), George Steiner ("The Uncommon Reader") and Seamus Heaney ("Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas"). Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215157
- ISBN
- 9780823215157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Paperback. Obscure Invitations argues that the apparent instances of "the death of the Author" in twentieth-century literature are in fact carefully staged performances that ultimately affirm authorial vitality and control of both text and reader. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773232
- ISBN
- 9780804773232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Hardback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631217114
- ISBN
- 9780631217114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.11
€ 165.11
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691607238
- ISBN
- 9780691607238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820345994
- ISBN
- 9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.53
€ 44.53