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Paperback. This study of "The Newcomes" explores the cultural density found within the novel and reveals how Thackeray exploited allusion in order to present an archetypal and cyclical vision of life, questioning the status and value of fictions and blurring distinctions between history and fiction. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349120277
- ISBN
- 9781349120277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.27
€ 71.27
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643267
- ISBN
- 9780691643267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.58€ 136.59
€ 181.58
€ 136.59
Paperback. Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; 1DBKEWC; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895125
- ISBN
- 9780859895125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.87
€ 35.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Fischer, Peter; Hubig, Christoph; Koslowski, Peter. Series: Ethische Okonomie. Beitrage zur Wirtschaftsethik und Wirtschaftskultur. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 697.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Physica-Verlag HD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783790815481
- ISBN
- 9783790815481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.78
€ 75.78
Hardback. This is a study of the way in which the changes in human perception created by urbanization are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content. Starting with the metropolitan explosion in the 19th century, it then goes on to more recent representations of the city in Europe and the US. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333696286
- ISBN
- 9780333696286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M. Coetzee, Achmat Dangor, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Antjie Krog. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453426
- ISBN
- 9781137453426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403960184
- ISBN
- 9781403960184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Hardback. As the first book-length study of the Yongming poets, this book focuses on unraveling the complexity and hybridity of the poetic voices beneath their seemingly "technical" pursuit of prosodic innovation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768597
- ISBN
- 9780804768597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.77
€ 70.77
Hardback. Focuses on the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032842
- ISBN
- 9780674032842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.42
€ 44.99
€ 38.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; DSBD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488368
- ISBN
- 9780801488368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardcover. In contrast to many 20th-century Swift studies, this text looks at Jonathan Swift as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image, and thus provides a view of print culture, the commodification of the author and the history of popular culture. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239596
- ISBN
- 9780312239596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardback. This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of Medieval Britain. Editor(s): Kennedy, Ruth; Meecham-Jones, Simon. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602953
- ISBN
- 9780230602953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. A study of writings about love in the English Middle Ages. Editor(s): Cooney, Helen. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349530694
- ISBN
- 9781349530694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296688
- ISBN
- 9780230296688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism". Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922171
- ISBN
- 9780813922171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBJD; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452972
- ISBN
- 9781349452972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Jeanette Beer's work bridges the divide between the study of vernacular and Latin writing, providing new evidence that the linguistic cultures were not isolated from each other. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647541
- ISBN
- 9781442647541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.28
€ 55.28
Hardcover. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036010
- ISBN
- 9780268036010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.08
€ 107.08
Paperback. Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical theory to provide a reading of the poem, focusing on Dante's address to the reader. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC; HPCB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226259987
- ISBN
- 9780226259987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
paperback. In readings attuned to the textual, sexual and historical specificities of John Ashbery's poetry, from "Some Trees" to "Flow Chart", this text introduces readers to the poet's processes of production, demonstrating his source materials and ideas for inspiration. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674636132
- ISBN
- 9780674636132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 44.02
€ 51.99
€ 44.02
paperback. This is a collection of critical essays by renowned scholars dealing with various aspects of literature, both poetry and prose, written in English in Wales during the 20th and 21st century. Editor(s): Gramich, Katie. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBH; GBCY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998431
- ISBN
- 9781906998431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSY; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355754
- ISBN
- 9781349355754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140444438
- ISBN
- 9780140444438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. Editor(s): Coates, Donna; Melnyk, George. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- AU Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897425305
- ISBN
- 9781897425305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.00
€ 40.99
€ 36.00