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Literary studies: general

Paperback. By looking at Victorian poetry, prose, and the novel, these essays show how a particular religious discourse cuts across the literary, gendered, and the broader semiotic landscape of Victorian literature. Editor(s): Nixon, Jude V. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528820
ISBN
9781349528820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Hardcover. La Fontaine was a great French lyric poet of the 17th century. This study is almost as much about Louis XIV as about La Fontaine. It provides analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the King to enforce an official cultural style, and the plight of the artist under such a ruler. Translator(s): Todd, Jean Marie. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; BGH; BGR; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1025.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038779
ISBN
9780268038779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.12

Paperback. This work begins during a key transitional moment in aesthetic and economic theory, 1871, when both disciplines underwent a turn from production to consumption models. The author traces the shift in Western thought from models of production to consumption. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226278544
ISBN
9780226278544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. This volume brings together Melvin B. Tolson's three book of poetry - "Rendezvouz with America", "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia", and "Harlem Gallery" - as well as fugitive poems after 1944. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918655
ISBN
9780813918655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.79

paperback. The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an on-going review of his concern with the encoding of languages and the exigencies of their imaginative retrieval. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823216048
ISBN
9780823216048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Korte, Barbara; Lechner, Doris. Num Pages: 222 pages, 26 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625936
ISBN
9783837625936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.46

Hardback. Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762335
ISBN
9780804762335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.74

Paperback. This volume contains shorter prose works from throughout Patrick Kavanagh's career: the autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences and a selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843510109
ISBN
9781843510109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00
€ 13.70

Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734271
ISBN
9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Hardback. Editor(s): Davidson, Clifford; Broos, Ton J.; Walsh, Martin. Series: MIP Early Drama, Art, and Music. Num Pages: 186 pages, 13 full color. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580442213
ISBN
9781580442213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.44

Paperback. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421417028
ISBN
9781421417028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780816691586
ISBN
9780816691586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

hardcover. This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women talking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fictional representations. Num Pages: 196 pages, bibliog, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 403.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811547
ISBN
9781571811547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.54

Paperback. Groundbreaking collection of specially commissioned essays in which the ethnic literatures of North America are added to the developing postcolonial canon. Editor(s): Madsen, Deborah L. Series: Post-colonial Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780745315102
ISBN
9780745315102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.46

Paperback. Explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behaviour of these characters as we would the behaviour of real people Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814766569
ISBN
9780814766569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Explores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 b/w Illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267460
ISBN
9780823267460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover. Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the rise of the political novel to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s. Yeh explores in detail the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes, among them the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global. Num Pages: 441 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504356
ISBN
9780674504356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.36
€ 54.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, 38ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226269535
ISBN
9780226269535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199765096
ISBN
9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.29

Paperback. This study explores the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works, and the discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is an attempt to recover the subtext of their works. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761851219
ISBN
9780761851219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.31

Hardcover. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer." Series Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Richardson, Riche. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349053
ISBN
9780820349053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Paperback. A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. * An exceptionally broad-ranging Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Lamb, Robert Paul; Thompson, G. R. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 108 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405195539
ISBN
9781405195539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.70

Hardback. The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern, secular peace movement in Britain, and the impact of ideas about 'positive peace' on their artistic practice. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 244 pages, 40 colour images + 100 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; ACXD2; DSBH; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1124.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151954
ISBN
9780300151954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. Unfolding the medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula, this book takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances - from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again - with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the noble lovers. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 185 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468525
ISBN
9780226468525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

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