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Paperback. Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization. Editor(s): Nagai, K. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309498
- ISBN
- 9781349309498
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. A comprehensive critical analysis of 19 novels, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession as a professor of linguistics influences her writing for young adults. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810874466
- ISBN
- 9780810874466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.71
€ 101.71
Paperback. Analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive - one of the important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa's 'first people'. This book offers an analysis of the corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; DSB; HBJ; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Witwatersrand University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144709
- ISBN
- 9781868144709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393240030
- ISBN
- 9780393240030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.53
€ 29.99
€ 25.53
hardcover. Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity is a highly original and innovative interpretation of Deledda's narrative in philosophical perspective, which also includes the study of textual variations and considers cultural history in Italy during the early twentieth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098313
- ISBN
- 9780802098313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479889327
- ISBN
- 9781479889327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 285 x 24. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312185
- ISBN
- 9780822312185
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.56
€ 36.99
€ 26.56
Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754337
- ISBN
- 9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349170128
- ISBN
- 9781349170128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.93
€ 29.93
Hardcover. Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture, and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity. Editor(s): Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275546
- ISBN
- 9780230275546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801447693
- ISBN
- 9780801447693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.98
€ 85.98
Paperback. This is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, and unsettling provocations. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739100929
- ISBN
- 9780739100929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.86
€ 69.86
Paperback. This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others; animals, women, native subjects and machines and examines border creatures and border practices such as pornography. Editor(s): Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth; Wiseman, Susan. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 441.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333973844
- ISBN
- 9780333973844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JFSL9; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977977
- ISBN
- 9781403977977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816667550
- ISBN
- 9780816667550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
Hardback. Written for both specialist and non-specialist, this book examines T. S. Eliot's treatments of putting-in-other-words, including the necessity of putting ancient truth in 'new verse.' By means of fresh new readings of Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets, G. Douglas Atkins carries his exploration of Eliot's religious thinking into bold new territory. Num Pages: 100 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137590572
- ISBN
- 9781137590572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Studies in Biography, a volume in the series Harvard English Studies, contains eleven essays which point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken since the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Aaron, Daniel. Series: English Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674846524
- ISBN
- 9780674846524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.54
€ 25.99
€ 22.54
Paperback. This work presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women. Editor(s): Conley, John J. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226648330
- ISBN
- 9780226648330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.04
€ 32.99
€ 26.04
Paperback. A collection of 16 essays by international scholars which focus on Irish writing in English, from the 18th century to the present. All the essays follow the common themes of exile and subversion and take a multi-disciplinary approach to such topics as English, history and philosophy. Editor(s): Sammells, Neil. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333525425
- ISBN
- 9780333525425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320100
- ISBN
- 9781137320100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349665426
- ISBN
- 9781349665426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This study traces the conflict and co-operation that developed within and among literary families as they sought to leave their legacies in the English world of letters from 1760-1820. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604759
- ISBN
- 9780230604759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488933
- ISBN
- 9781349488933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Here is a new translation, remarkable for its accuracy and refreshing clarity of exposition, of the first major work of literary criticism. Editor(s): Hutton, James. Translator(s): Hutton, James. Num Pages: 128 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393952162
- ISBN
- 9780393952162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.88
€ 21.99
€ 21.88