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Paperback. Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. Drama is a particularly rich and rewarding field for studying the complex ways in which such expectations are created. This book explores these expectations through the lens of twentieth-century Russian drama. Series: Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986470
- ISBN
- 9780295986470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.54
€ 37.54
Hardback. The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions. Editor(s): Aidoo, Lamonte; Silva, Daniel F. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543431
- ISBN
- 9781137543431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.97
€ 128.97
Hardcover. With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). Editor(s): Balfour, Robert J. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFC; KCS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378. 240 pages, 7, 6 black & white halftones, 1 maps. Editor(s): Balfour, Robert J. With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFC; KCS. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246454
- ISBN
- 9780230246454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Editor(s): Lovell, Ernest J. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780691650739
- ISBN
- 9780691650739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.91
€ 158.91
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649177
- ISBN
- 9780691649177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.30
€ 146.30
Hardback. This title is a study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British 18th century and of the influence of such writers as Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Johnson on his work. It demonstrates how Becket was not only influenced by them but how he interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333925393
- ISBN
- 9780333925393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420. Western Europe 1970-2005. 272 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DSBH; JFC. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403975706
- ISBN
- 9781403975706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. "A brilliant study of legal events and of literary texts concerned with the Scottish Highlands in the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, which then provides a structure for exploring the decay of and nostalgia for experience in subsequent culture."-Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239713
- ISBN
- 9780812239713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 129 pages, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 303.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 129
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562128
- ISBN
- 9781137562128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
Hardback. Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hagglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPCF7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Sew
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066328
- ISBN
- 9780674066328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.97€ 59.18
€ 62.97
€ 59.18
Paperback. Argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226101699
- ISBN
- 9780226101699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.46
€ 36.99
€ 29.46
Hardback. This deals with the "doppelganger" as a dominant theme in the fiction of the Romantic period, and its relation to evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony and declined when they began to grow apart. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333490242
- ISBN
- 9780333490242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. This book reveals fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel in the early modern period. Through fresh interpretations of music, literature, and history it argues that the expulsion of the Muslim population created a historic and artistic aperture that was addressed in new literary forms. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299925
- ISBN
- 9781137299925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. "Performing the Body in Irish Theatre" charts a performance tradition that lives alongside a literary legacy and offers a highly original and contemporary analysis of Irish theater. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349546077
- ISBN
- 9781349546077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. Instead of seeing wartime experience as a site of fellowship and emotional resilience, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Roy Fuller and others depict shadowy figures on the margin of the nation. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577534
- ISBN
- 9780230577534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349482856
- ISBN
- 9781349482856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. A collection of late 20th-century scholarship devoted to Thomas Jefferson as a politician, writer, philosopher, Christian and economist. Editor(s): Engeman, Thomas. Series: Loyola topics in political philosophy. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DSBD; HBJK; HPCD; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042110
- ISBN
- 9780268042110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
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
€ 56.67
€ 56.67
Paperback. Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. Through analysis of the aesthetics of Schiller, Rousseau and works by Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others, Hamilton adds greater clarity to our understanding of romanticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314808
- ISBN
- 9780226314808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.73
€ 42.99
€ 33.73
Hardcover. Signifying 'others' or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; APF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104020
- ISBN
- 9780230104020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.36
€ 53.40
€ 47.36
Hardback. Translator(s): Svarlien, Diane Arnson. Num Pages: 368 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 273 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664816
- ISBN
- 9781624664816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.45
€ 52.99
€ 38.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349384617
- ISBN
- 9781349384617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
hardcover. This work aims to show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of the 20th century. It addresses themes of sexual and racial identity, reconceptualizations of and transcendence of Christianity, and analyzes African American folk and cultural traditions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; 2ABM; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820324333
- ISBN
- 9780820324333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584656999
- ISBN
- 9781584656999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.97
€ 47.99
€ 36.97