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Hardback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108073
- ISBN
- 9780230108073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Hardcover. Working Girls offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198724841
- ISBN
- 9780198724841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.96
€ 154.96
Hardcover. Num Pages: 297 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776747053
- ISBN
- 9788776747053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27
Paperback. This dictionary, now available in paperback, provides readers with a convenient source of reliable and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. Topics include Chaucer's works, major characters, social and political contexts, influences on Chaucer and those influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231481
- ISBN
- 9780230231481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349429615
- ISBN
- 9781349429615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.79
€ 128.79
Hardcover. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 176 pages, 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632405
- ISBN
- 9780815632405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.69
€ 37.69
hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769549
- ISBN
- 9780804769549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.13
€ 71.13
Paperback. Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330782
- ISBN
- 9781349330782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611475050
- ISBN
- 9781611475050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.81
€ 145.81
Hardcover. This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316826
- ISBN
- 9780820316826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.96
€ 48.96
Hardback. Editor(s): Hartman, Joan E.; Seeff, Adele. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 26. Weight in Grams: 749.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492910
- ISBN
- 9781611492910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.99
€ 124.99
Hardback. Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 468 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056084
- ISBN
- 9780674056084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.64€ 50.15
€ 53.64
€ 50.15
Hardback. Perros, is best remembered for the autobiographical poems, vignettes, short prose narratives, occasional diary-like notations, critical remarks, and personal essays. This title presents a selection of short texts alongside numerous maxims, a genre in which Perros excelled. Translator(s): Taylor, John. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422293
- ISBN
- 9780857422293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349210565
- ISBN
- 9781349210565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.52
€ 49.52
Hardcover. Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964170
- ISBN
- 9780333964170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. This book is a new translation, in contemporary English, of Miguel de Unamuno's 1920 masterpiece book-length poem about another masterpiece of Western Civilization, Diego Velazquez's "The Christ of San Placido," which is commonly known as "The Christ of Velazquez." Translator(s): Little, William Thomas. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761822868
- ISBN
- 9780761822868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 146.31
€ 146.31
paperback. Contemporary literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. This text argues that it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733564
- ISBN
- 9780804733564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.43
€ 29.43
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810871823
- ISBN
- 9780810871823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.81
€ 195.81
Hardback. It was during the exciting modernist movement in Spanish American literature that Clemente Plama (1872-1946), son of Ricardo Palma, began his writing career and signaled the birth of modern Peruvian literature. This volume offers detailed critical analyses of Palma's short stories and novels. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838751244
- ISBN
- 9780838751244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.59
€ 108.59
Paperback. Reassesses better-known works and themes in the field of Lydgate studies, including Lydgate's unofficial laureateship, his relationship to his patrons, and his relationship to Chaucer. This book makes an important contribution to medieval scholarship and it will be welcomed by scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry; Simpson, James. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041168
- ISBN
- 9780268041168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.58
€ 29.58
Paperback. Building on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Editor(s): Walker, Keith; Fisher, Nicholas. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118438794
- ISBN
- 9781118438794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.63
€ 44.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Lowery, Robert G. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349056699
- ISBN
- 9781349056699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.10
€ 71.10
Offers an analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century. This book covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. It features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192323
- ISBN
- 9781405192323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 157.38
€ 157.38
Paperback. Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 20 Anv
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305592
- ISBN
- 9780226305592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91