Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part 1 covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Editor(s): Malcolm, David; Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405145374
- ISBN
- 9781405145374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.79
€ 49.79
Paperback. First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. This Student Edition contains a full introduction, commentary and questions for study. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413774187
- ISBN
- 9780413774187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Oleanna is Mamet's most celebrated and performed play, exploring male-female conflicts. This Student Edition is annotated, with a chronology of David Mamet's life and work, a discussion of various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text as well as questions for study. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413773760
- ISBN
- 9780413773760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Brings together notes and essays of the author. This book includes are autobiographical vignettes from childhood and youth describing the gamut of human emotion, from childhood fear to adult nostalgia in the re-creation of the past. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACG; BG; DN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571170760
- ISBN
- 9780571170760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.00€ 17.22
€ 22.00
€ 17.22
Hardcover. 'Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277618
- ISBN
- 9780230277618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Paperback. Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325559
- ISBN
- 9781349325559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.03
€ 63.03
hardcover. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226415970
- ISBN
- 9780226415970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 35.42
€ 45.99
€ 35.42
Paperback. Series: Medievalism. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844549
- ISBN
- 9781843844549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.20
€ 26.99
€ 26.20
Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631858
- ISBN
- 9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.04
€ 56.04
Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Series: ND Studies Age Chaucer. Num Pages: 522 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784321
- ISBN
- 9780933784321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51
€ 69.51
Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Series: New Chaucer Society. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784338
- ISBN
- 9780933784338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51
€ 69.51
Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784345
- ISBN
- 9780933784345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51
€ 69.51
Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784383
- ISBN
- 9780933784383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.36
€ 69.36
Paperback. A thought-provoking exploration of the Mau Mau uprising and its place in the literature and identity of Kenya. Series: African History Archive. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTR; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786990143
- ISBN
- 9781786990143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.20
€ 30.99
€ 26.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 129 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 129
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231067942
- ISBN
- 9780231067942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.08€ 61.15
€ 81.08
€ 61.15
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035356
- ISBN
- 9781137035356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
paperback. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349442218
- ISBN
- 9781349442218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardback. A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. Num Pages: 229 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133691
- ISBN
- 9780874133691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.49
€ 120.49
paperback. Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there. Editor(s): McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735186
- ISBN
- 9780804735186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.98
€ 41.99
€ 41.98
Hardcover. This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of "modernism". Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333987827
- ISBN
- 9780333987827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.91
€ 122.91
Paperback. This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of "modernism." Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431489
- ISBN
- 9781349431489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.57
€ 122.57
Hardcover. A leading literary critic's innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780393246872
- ISBN
- 9780393246872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 7.00
€ 22.99
€ 7.00
Hardback. Examines the debate about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, this book examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through political speeches and journalistic writing. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; DSBH; HBJM; JFC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333655818
- ISBN
- 9780333655818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.48
€ 122.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333282977
- ISBN
- 9780333282977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.87
€ 186.87