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hardcover. Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe. Num Pages: 213 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110946
- ISBN
- 9780230110946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141543
- ISBN
- 9781405141543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.85
€ 40.85
Hardback. Explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. This work reveals the allegorical survivals in the works of major figures such as Shakespeare, Calderon, Racine, Vondel, Metastasio, Goethe, and Wagner and reads tragedy, comedy, masque, opera, and school drama. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812239669
- ISBN
- 9780812239669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.07
€ 94.07
Hardcover. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294074
- ISBN
- 9781137294074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763540612
- ISBN
- 9788763540612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.20€ 40.27
€ 50.20
€ 40.27
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615073
- ISBN
- 9780691615073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.45
€ 45.99
€ 33.45
Paperback. Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialism Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819568748
- ISBN
- 9780819568748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.09
€ 34.09
Hardcover. This volume describes the hereditary theories that were current in Dickens's time and how these are reflected in his fiction. It argues that Dickens jettisoned his earlier belief in the prescriptive and deterministic potential of heredity after Darwin published "The Origin of the Species". Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747230
- ISBN
- 9780333747230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Paperback. This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work. Editor(s): Baker, Peter S. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815336662
- ISBN
- 9780815336662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.68
€ 59.68
hardcover. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- SKU
- V9781403967619
- ISBN
- 9781403967619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.01
€ 68.01
Hardback. The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 532 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725423
- ISBN
- 9780674725423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.80
€ 38.99
€ 33.80
Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883026
- ISBN
- 9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.94
€ 76.94
Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493528
- ISBN
- 9781611493528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.40
€ 156.40
Hardcover. Num Pages: Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903364697
- ISBN
- 9781903364697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.43€ 72.02
€ 93.43
€ 72.02
Hardcover. Wallace Stevens, one of the leading poets of the 20th century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. Here, Brogan traces Steven's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325194
- ISBN
- 9780820325194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Hardcover. Ezra Pound belatedly conceded that T.S.Eliot "was the true Dantescan voice" of the modern world. With this assertion in mind, this study examines the relationship between the two poets. It attempts to show how Dante's total vision impinges on Eliot's craft and thought. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333325865
- ISBN
- 9780333325865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Series: Keywords in Literature and Culture(KILC)). Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470659830
- ISBN
- 9780470659830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.86
€ 173.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536795
- ISBN
- 9781349536795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443848
- ISBN
- 9780801443848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.82
€ 71.82
Hardcover. Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355187
- ISBN
- 9780230355187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Editor(s): Sollors, Werner. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 576 pages, 24 photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393934144
- ISBN
- 9780393934144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.49
€ 19.99
€ 18.49
Hardback. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 15th anniversary ed
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869952
- ISBN
- 9780801869952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.63
€ 95.63
Paperback. Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464708
- ISBN
- 9781349464708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Hardback. Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. Num Pages: 608 pages, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1176.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141350
- ISBN
- 9780691141350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.55€ 42.10
€ 52.55
€ 42.10