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Literary studies: general

For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122342
ISBN
9780813122342
Condition: New

€ 42.63

Paperback. Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism. Editor(s): Garrard, Greg. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349313709
ISBN
9781349313709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 94.59

Paperback. Editor(s): Mathews, Marthiel; Mathews, Jackson. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DC; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811211178
ISBN
9780811211178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.49

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643540
ISBN
9780691643540
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.46

Paperback. A study of the Irish modernist poet, Brian Coffey (1905-95), whose work has always been regarded as difficult. This text aims to explain how the poems release their meaning and guide the reader in understanding the poet's work. Num Pages: 160 pages, 4 photographs, 2 line illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 249. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004240
ISBN
9781900621441
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Shirane and Suzuki examine how the Japanese canon of "classics" (The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho) was constructed as part of the creation of Japan as a modern nation-state and as a result of Western influence. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo; Suzuki, Tomi. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739900
ISBN
9780804739900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.99

Paperback. Series: Physica-Lehrbuch. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Physica-Verlag HD
Condition
New
SKU
V9783790810004
ISBN
9783790810004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.95

Hardcover. Drawing on a range of material from archives in the US and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. It explores "progressivism", "primitivism" and "Americanization" in such novels as "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers!". Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634516
ISBN
9780333634516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

Paperback. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349180400
ISBN
9781349180400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.08

Hardback. Series: Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Num Pages: 247 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HBAH; HBJD; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 159. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136173
ISBN
9780874136173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.62

Hardcover. This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays incorporate recent theoretical inquiries into new readings of early modern texts. Editor(s): Aston, E.; Cefalu, Paul; Reynolds, Bryan. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235496
ISBN
9780230235496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.21

Hardback. Editor(s): Armstrong, Isobel; Blain, Virginia. Num Pages: 426 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 691.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312215361
ISBN
9780312215361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.64

Hardback. The State of the Novel offers a lively yet rigorous investigation into the present state of the contemporary novel--in Britain and beyond--and some speculation about its future. Against the backdrop of globalization, Dominic Head establishes the interests shared by contemporary theorists, cultural commentators, and consumers of novels. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405170116
ISBN
9781405170116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.75

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; GBC; HP; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Deutscher Universitatsverlag United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824443413
ISBN
9783824443413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.03

Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403983862
ISBN
9781403983862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Editor(s): Schaumann, Caroline; Sullivan, Heather. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 333 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559852
ISBN
9781137559852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.92

Hardcover. This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it highlights the problematic nature of this 'new' genre and its relationship to re-interpretative critical perspectives on the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241138
ISBN
9780230241138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.54

Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270442
ISBN
9780803270442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.41

Hardcover. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137295446
ISBN
9781137295446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Thormahlen, Marianne. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349724031
ISBN
9781349724031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

paperback. The pseudo-Virgilian Aetna poem has fascinated textual critics for centuries on account of its badly corrupted state. But it is fascinating for its content as well. A vigorous and enthusiastic poem, this title repays further study within the didactic tradition. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 388 pages, 2-colour cover. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675389
ISBN
9781904675389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

Hardback. By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. It analyses discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022676
ISBN
9780674022676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.98

Paperback. Editor(s): Smyth, A.; Dubino, Jeanne. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349491513
ISBN
9781349491513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Paperback. Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves. Num Pages: 464 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226448169
ISBN
9780226448169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

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