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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226519722
ISBN
9780226519722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.36

paperback. Why are secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated important thinkers of the 20th century? This text uses the story of Joan of Arc as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that is intact and transparent. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226519821
ISBN
9780226519821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.65

Hardcover. The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) has been labeled the icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. This title reconsiders this literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226519883
ISBN
9780226519883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Frandsen, Norregaard; Sun, Jian; Jeppesen, Torben Grongaard. Num Pages: 191 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776748203
ISBN
9788776748203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.76

Hardback. The essays in this work deal with the nature of performance criticism, performance history, state and screen productions of Shakespeare and the physical playhouse. Contributors include: John Russell Brown, James Bulman, Ralph Berry, Herbert Coursen, Jay Halio, James Lusardi, June Schlueter, Harry Keyishian, Alan Dessen and Pauline Kiernan. Editor(s): Occhiogrosso, Frank. Num Pages: 147 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874137767
ISBN
9780874137767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.33

Hardback. Editor(s): Occhiogrosso, Frank. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473544
ISBN
9781611473544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.10

Hardcover. A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina. Num Pages: 616 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 257 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1128.
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662896
ISBN
9781855662896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.20

Paperback. Re-Figuring Hayden White is a reconsideration of the work of Hayden White by a group of internationally prominent scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies. Editor(s): Ankersmit, Frank; Domanska, Ewa; Kellner, Hans. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 400 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762755
ISBN
9780804762755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.87

Hardback. Re-Figuring Hayden White is a reconsideration of the work of Hayden White by a group of internationally prominent scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies. Editor(s): Ankersmit, Frank; Domanska, Ewa; Kellner, Hans. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804760034
ISBN
9780804760034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.35

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441806
ISBN
9780801441806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.82
€ 61.88

Hardback. How do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734363
ISBN
9780804734363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.45

Hardback. Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend. Editor(s): Brandsma, Frank; Larrington, Carolyne; Saunders, Corinne. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 221 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 245 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844211
ISBN
9781843844211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.87

Hardback. Explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, and William Dean Howells, and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625086
ISBN
9780748625086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.21
€ 105.73

Paperback. Series: Writer as Critic S. Num Pages: 317 pages, 22cm. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
317
Condition
New
SKU
V9780920897577
ISBN
9780920897577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.56

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784277
ISBN
9780933784277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.51

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Series: Stud. Age Chaucer Ye. Num Pages: 549 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784284
ISBN
9780933784284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.51

Hardcover. The yearbook of The New Chaucer Society is published annually. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2AC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784291
ISBN
9780933784291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.43

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784307
ISBN
9780933784307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.51

Paperback. The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140285925
ISBN
9780140285925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. This classic work, back in print for the first time in over a decade, questions the public's harsh perception of the artist, while at the same time gently poking fun at the artists' own, often inflated self-image. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415261876
ISBN
9780415261876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.08

Paperback. Includes essay on Botticelli that traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226431758
ISBN
9780226431758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415758963
ISBN
9780415758963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.30

Paperback. A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Aland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547443
ISBN
9781857547443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.61

Paperback. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862. 480 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank; McLaughlin, Thomas. This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies that the term permits. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 232 x 173 x 33. Weight: 762.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226472034
ISBN
9780226472034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.12

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