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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. In the latter half of the 20th century, poet William Bronk (1918-1999) was a significant voice in the American literary landscape. This book attempts to present a perspective of 20th century literary history and interrogates the ideational, poetic, and cultural shifts as seen through the lens of Bronk's life as a writer. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874139143
- ISBN
- 9780874139143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Paperback. Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. Editor(s): Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB; HPK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 308. An Essay on Free Will. 264 pages. Editor(s): Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen. Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB; HPK; HPL. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight: 308.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151573
- ISBN
- 9780231151573
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.51
€ 21.99
€ 17.51
Hardcover. * A highly and engaging work by one of the worlda s most renowned medievalists. * Recreates and connects the places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 674.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113939
- ISBN
- 9781405113939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.57
€ 134.57
Paperback. * A highly and engaging work by one of the world's most renowned medievalists. * Recreates and connects the places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405151528
- ISBN
- 9781405151528
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Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
Hardcover. Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362612
- ISBN
- 9781137362612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify several different literary forms: complaint, dialogue, tale and moralization, and treatise. It combines close textual reading with study of the manuscripts. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898690
- ISBN
- 9780859898690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.03
€ 126.03
Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237542
- ISBN
- 9780812237542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Hardcover. When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses, the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488404
- ISBN
- 9781137488404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.78
€ 143.78
Paperback. "Decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Massachusetts Press Boston
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870239922
- ISBN
- 9780870239922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.97
€ 36.97
Paperback. Provides introduction to the text and contexts of "Things Fall Apart", surveying the interpretations of the text from publication onwards and the critical material that surrounds it. This work also offers an insight into African culture. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415344562
- ISBN
- 9780415344562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.70
€ 49.70
Hardcover. Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; DSA; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330079
- ISBN
- 9781137330079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460847
- ISBN
- 9781349460847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932589351
- ISBN
- 9781932589351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. Argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling are represented in the form of literal devices and plots Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249978
- ISBN
- 9780823249978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.32
€ 38.99
€ 35.32
Hardback. Argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling are represented in the form of literal devices and plots Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249961
- ISBN
- 9780823249961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.40
€ 108.40
Hardback. * This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake (1608--1827). * Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. Editor(s): Womersley, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 182 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631212850
- ISBN
- 9780631212850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.85
€ 60.85
Paperback. Derrida has had a profound influence on the way texts are read. Deconstruction has become a Sphinx-like feature of the modern critical landscape. The contributors to this volume have endeavoured to take a critical view of Derrida's oeuvre. Editor(s): Wood, David. Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631161219
- ISBN
- 9780631161219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.60
€ 48.60
hardcover. Worrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history. Num Pages: 311 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107043602
- ISBN
- 9781107043602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSBF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355693
- ISBN
- 9781349355693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Hardback. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518025
- ISBN
- 9780230518025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Paperback. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897122
- ISBN
- 9780801897122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.14
€ 42.99
€ 36.14
Hardback. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. Num Pages: 424 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897115
- ISBN
- 9780801897115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.14
€ 89.14
Hardback. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312225087
- ISBN
- 9780312225087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.57
€ 122.57
Paperback. Evelyn Waugh was an autobiographical novelist whose literary life and personal life were closely linked. This study argues that the complex ideas Waugh held about himself as a writer are essential for an understanding of his work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333611388
- ISBN
- 9780333611388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.68
€ 121.68