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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; APFB; DSBH; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197155
ISBN
9781845197155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.36

Paperback. Isn t it particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work? Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t s only in writing, on paper, that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745653877
ISBN
9780745653877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.71

Hardback. Isn t it particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work? Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t s only in writing, on paper, that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745653860
ISBN
9780745653860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.85

Hardback. Editor(s): Brake, Laurel; Codell, Professor Julie F. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403941770
ISBN
9781403941770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.66

Paperback. First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Editor(s): McDonald, Bill. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532. Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel. 372 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): McDonald, Bill. First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134400
ISBN
9781571134400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.32

Hardback. Describes modernist 'choran community' as a previously understudied key counternarrative to Modernism's engagement with early 20th-century master narratives. This book uses the term choran community to emphasize the almost sacred nature of experience represented in common by select modernist texts and phototexts produced in the interwar period. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911304
ISBN
9781575911304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.98

Hardback. Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE, Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. Translator(s): Hunter, Richard. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235601
ISBN
9780520235601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.72
€ 63.14

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603605
ISBN
9780691603605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.42

hardcover. For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him. Editor(s): Lewis, Jayne; Novak, Maximillian E. Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Num Pages: 340 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802089403
ISBN
9780802089403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.51

Paperback. .
Publisher
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906841256
ISBN
9781906841256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.10

paperback. Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324904
ISBN
9780822324904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.00

Paperback. En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780994031
ISBN
9781780994031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153162
ISBN
9780691153162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean differance and deconstruction. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; GTB; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748889
ISBN
9780804748889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.99

Paperback / so. Title on spine: Zu Pers'onlichkeitsvariablen von Literaturproduzenten. Series: Konzeption Empirische Literaturwissenschaft. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783528073251
ISBN
9783528073251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.71

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319398587
ISBN
9783319398587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.21

Paperback. Caruth thus reveals, in each of these authors, a tension between the abstraction of a conceptual language freed from reference and the compelling referential resistance of particular stories to abstraction. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; HPCD; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892691
ISBN
9780801892691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.30

Paperback. Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405193559
ISBN
9781405193559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.66

Hardcover. Explores the literature focused schooling systems put in place by American colonizers in the Philippines during the nineteenth Century Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; DSB; HBJF; HBLL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794760
ISBN
9780814794760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.11

Paperback. Explores the literature focused schooling systems put in place by American colonizers in the Philippines during the nineteenth Century Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; DSB; HBJF; HBLL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794777
ISBN
9780814794777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.30

Hardcover. Literature gives access to the verge, to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. This title offers instructions to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards the understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781846311826
ISBN
9781846311826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.85

Hardback. By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia. This book explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan's cultural authority. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSB; HBJF; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1048.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780674036253
ISBN
9780674036253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.20
€ 53.73

Hardback. Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative and picturesque analysis of the Romans' extraordinary desire for food and wine and how this quest for the luxurious is woven into the literature, art, language and culture. Num Pages: 346 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AB; 3D; ACG; CFF; DSBB; JFC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415186247
ISBN
9780415186247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.29
€ 138.95

Paperback. Offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. This book provides definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
521
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125277
ISBN
9780231125277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

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