Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920658
- ISBN
- 9780813920658
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Condition: New
€ 31.58
€ 31.58
Hardback. This volume asserts that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American literary voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. The book provides evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 735.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920665
- ISBN
- 9780813920665
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Condition: New
€ 95.28
€ 95.28
Hardback. In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. This study explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene and West. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBH; JPF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920696
- ISBN
- 9780813920696
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Condition: New
€ 82.24
€ 82.24
Paperback. In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. This study explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene and West. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBH; JPF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920702
- ISBN
- 9780813920702
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Condition: New
€ 34.52
€ 34.52
Hardback. Considers the southern graveyard as one of three sites of memory - the other two being the southern body and southern memoir. It shows how Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray contended through their autobiographies against Lost Cause versions of southern identity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920719
- ISBN
- 9780813920719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.77
€ 81.77
paperback. Considers the southern graveyard as one of three sites of memory - the other two being the southern body and southern memoir. It shows how Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray contended through their autobiographies against Lost Cause versions of southern identity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920726
- ISBN
- 9780813920726
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Condition: New
€ 32.42
€ 32.42
Hardback. A collection of works by 20th-century poets who were all born or raised in the American South. Along with an acknowledgement of the contributions of the most popular figures in southern poetry, attention is given to under-recognized poets such as Anne Spencer and John Beecher. Editor(s): Rigsbee, David; Brown, Steven Ford. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920733
- ISBN
- 9780813920733
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Condition: New
€ 83.12
€ 83.12
paperback. In 1903 John Burroughs published an "Atlantic Monthly" article attacking popular nature writers as "sham naturalists". This debate resulted in a new standard of accuracy for the nature writer and reflected a new way of thinking about moral responsibilities to wildlife. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 272 pages, 33 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; PDD; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920818
- ISBN
- 9780813920818
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Condition: New
€ 35.95
€ 35.95
Hardback. This title explores how our environmental attitudes have been influenced and shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-19th century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the 20th century. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; PDR; RNA; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921068
- ISBN
- 9780813921068
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Condition: New
€ 76.72
€ 76.72
Paperback. This title explores how our environmental attitudes have been influenced and shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-19th century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the 20th century. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; PDR; RNA; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921075
- ISBN
- 9780813921075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.74
€ 30.74
Hardback. A major problem facing American modernist poets was how to accommodate poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. In this work, Robert Bernard Hass examines the ways in which conflict with science affected the development of Robert Frost's career. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921112
- ISBN
- 9780813921112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.58
€ 76.58
paperback. A major problem facing American modernist poets was how to accommodate poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of truth. In this work, Robert Bernard Hass examines the ways in which conflict with science affected the development of Robert Frost's career. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921129
- ISBN
- 9780813921129
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Condition: New
€ 32.97
€ 32.97
Hardback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921426
- ISBN
- 9780813921426
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Condition: New
€ 81.97
€ 81.97
hardcover. 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 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921440
- ISBN
- 9780813921440
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Condition: New
€ 82.07
€ 82.07
paperback. This work presents links between the myth of Caribbean Paradise and colonial ideologies and economics. It considers the cultural, economic and social effects of tourism's contemporary Caribbean and explores the way post colonial writers have responded to the paradise-plantation dichotomy. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921471
- ISBN
- 9780813921471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.26
€ 38.26
Hardback. This volume presents a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism and other aspects of the study of books. The book opens with lectures by distinguished bibliographer, R.B. McKerrow, followed by an essay on the description of books by G. Thomas Tanselle. Series: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DS; GBCR; GLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921488
- ISBN
- 9780813921488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.01
€ 78.01
Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection
Jarrell, Randall. Ed(S): Wright, Stuart; Burt...
paperback. These papers from the poet and critic Randall Jarrell include letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. These letters add a further dimension of friendship and intellect to this behind-the-scenes glimpse of American literary history. Editor(s): Wright, Stuart; Burt, Stephen. Num Pages: 576 pages, 22 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- expanded edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921532
- ISBN
- 9780813921532
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Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19
Hardback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921563
- ISBN
- 9780813921563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.12
€ 76.12
paperback. A reconstruction of three modernist poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters, this sequel to "Orientalism and Modernism", investigates the ways in which three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. Num Pages: 296 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; ACBP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921761
- ISBN
- 9780813921761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.16
€ 35.16
Hardback. As London became the first major city of the 19th century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistant worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921808
- ISBN
- 9780813921808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.84
€ 75.84