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hardcover. Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099570
- ISBN
- 9780802099570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.26
€ 76.26
Hardcover. Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. The author puzzles out this phenomenon. Translator(s): Izzo, Justin. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226106908
- ISBN
- 9780226106908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.97€ 103.91
€ 126.97
€ 103.91
Hardback. Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate. Editor(s): Rapoport, Ron. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DNJ; KNTJ; WSBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803269736
- ISBN
- 9780803269736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.74
€ 42.99
€ 39.74
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Greaves, Stanley. Num Pages: 152 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900715577
- ISBN
- 9781900715577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.24
€ 24.99
€ 20.24
Paperback. From the upheaval of the 1916 Rising to the Spanish Civil War, to the horrors of WW2, Earth Voices Whispering gathers together a wide range of voices that charts the human experience of war. Featuring AE, W.B Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and many more. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 538. 412pp. Irish Poetry, Irish Military History
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780856408212
- ISBN
- 9780856408212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.23
€ 13.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. * * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville. Editor(s): Kelley, Wyn. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 958.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119045274
- ISBN
- 9781119045274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.81
€ 50.99
€ 50.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761814665
- ISBN
- 9780761814665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.26
€ 78.26
Paperback. The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This title studies the Doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. It shows how the Doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232994
- ISBN
- 9780823232994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.44
€ 42.99
€ 38.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491821
- ISBN
- 9781611491821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Paperback. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, this book analyzes the ways in which British and American women poets such as H.D., Stevie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Ai, and Carol Ann Duffy often operate as cultural insiders, consuming music, movies, and magazines through poems that do not always conform to appropriation or critique. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386212
- ISBN
- 9781137386212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.62
€ 64.62
Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000624
- ISBN
- 9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Studies the manifestations of Edward the Black Prince in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933426
- ISBN
- 9780861933426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.51
€ 56.51
Paperback. An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the complex way in which they engaged with the dominant ideologies of the time. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 B&W illustraions, 2 diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893590
- ISBN
- 9780718893590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Paperback. This collection is a companion to "Modern Short Stories One". The 15 short stories included are by writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain. The writers include Dino Buzzati, Dorothy Parker, Primo Levi, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor and Peter Carey. Editor(s): Hunter, Jim. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 178 x 113 x 16. Weight in Grams: 128. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006264
- ISBN
- 9780571169863
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature, starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett. This book also offers an overview of philosophical approaches to contemporary literature and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754576
- ISBN
- 9780804754576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 281 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DD; HPC; HPN; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Deutscher Universit?tsverlag United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783824440887
- ISBN
- 9783824440887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.43
€ 68.43
Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921457
- ISBN
- 9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.52
€ 34.52
Paperback. Explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033101
- ISBN
- 9780268033101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776356
- ISBN
- 9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490749
- ISBN
- 9781611490749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.92
€ 128.92
Hardcover. In the tradition of The Swerve, this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 280 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406637
- ISBN
- 9780871406637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.58
€ 30.99
€ 25.58
Paperback. Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130330
- ISBN
- 9780691130330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550963953
- ISBN
- 9781550963953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.88
€ 17.99
€ 15.88
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691651781
- ISBN
- 9780691651781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.76€ 123.14
€ 163.76
€ 123.14