Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters. Drawing from the work of Montaigne and Bacon and recent practitioners such as E B White and Cynthia Ozick, the author shows what the essay means and how it comes to mean, and offers a fresh look at this resurgent literary form. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820327617
- ISBN
- 9780820327617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06€ 57.01
€ 62.06
€ 57.01
Hardcover. Offers the study of the issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Num Pages: 424 pages, 61 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820327891
- ISBN
- 9780820327891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.69
€ 47.99
€ 39.69
Hardcover. Explains how, for the author, such concerns as music, race, politics, and conscience revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. The author writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. Series: Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art & Craft S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328034
- ISBN
- 9780820328034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.60€ 66.16
€ 72.60
€ 66.16
Hardcover. Looks at the presence of marked men and women in an array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. This study shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328126
- ISBN
- 9780820328126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.63€ 48.83
€ 52.63
€ 48.83
Hardcover. Contains readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this literary form reveals about the "art of living." This book offers advice on the demands that essays make and the opportunities that they offer, especially for college courses. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328263
- ISBN
- 9780820328263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.94€ 68.19
€ 74.94
€ 68.19
Hardcover. As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. This work examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. It looks at novels as paradigms of feminist activism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328584
- ISBN
- 9780820328584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
Hardcover. The long-awaited biography of an unsung literary legend who informed the major 1960s cultural and political movements: Black Arts, Black Power, and Civil Rights. Leak offers a full examination of both Dumas s life and his creative development." Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: B; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328706
- ISBN
- 9780820328706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.65
€ 44.99
€ 37.65
Hardcover. Examines 19th-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experience of nature; and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. This work focuses on 4 writers and their influential works: Almira Phelps, Margaret Fuller, Susan Fenimore Cooper and Mary Treat. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFSJ1; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329185
- ISBN
- 9780820329185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.60€ 66.16
€ 72.60
€ 66.16
Paperback. Presents Transcendentalism as a living movement, evolving out of such origins as New England Unitarianism and finding inspiration in European Romanticism. This work conveys the movement's expectations that its radical spirituality would lead to personal perfection and also inspire solutions to national problems like slavery and disfranchisement. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329581
- ISBN
- 9780820329581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Hardcover. Reveals affinities between antebellum southern and modern American capitalist psychology. This book identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329727
- ISBN
- 9780820329727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.94€ 68.19
€ 74.94
€ 68.19
Hardcover. Approaches John Ashbery's critically neglected poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun "you" and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. This book argues the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329734
- ISBN
- 9780820329734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
Paperback. Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330136
- ISBN
- 9780820330136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.42
€ 25.99
€ 22.42
Paperback. Contains readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this literary form reveals about the "art of living." This book offers advice on the specific demands essays make and the opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330303
- ISBN
- 9780820330303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland" and Toni Morrison's "Paradise". What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. This work is a study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330334
- ISBN
- 9780820330334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.49
€ 32.99
€ 27.49
Hardcover. Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330693
- ISBN
- 9780820330693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.75€ 102.72
€ 114.75
€ 102.72
Hardcover. Investigates a century's worth of Tarzan's incarnations and our varied imaginative responses to them. This work exposes the contradictions, ambiguities, and coincidences of the Tarzan phenomenon. It also offers a provocative model for understanding the life cycle of pop culture phenomena. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFG; DSK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820331836
- ISBN
- 9780820331836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.60€ 66.16
€ 72.60
€ 66.16
Paperback. Challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. This book sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPK; JMAF; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820331904
- ISBN
- 9780820331904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. An award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals. Num Pages: 392 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332505
- ISBN
- 9780820332505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Hardcover. Examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity across the second half of the twentieth century - from adolescents like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield to sports agents like Jerry Maguire. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332833
- ISBN
- 9780820332833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.75€ 102.72
€ 114.75
€ 102.72
Hardcover. "A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--T.p. verso. Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333380
- ISBN
- 9780820333380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Hardcover. Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333427
- ISBN
- 9780820333427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.61€ 107.81
€ 120.61
€ 107.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333748
- ISBN
- 9780820333748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.48
€ 30.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell s "Life of Johnson" brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell s biography. This volume offers an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the "Life" presents to readers, scholars, and teachers." Editor(s): Vance, John A. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333762
- ISBN
- 9780820333762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
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Paperback. The original and imaginative portrait of Dr Johnson the man and the writer gets behind his public face and uncovers the human struggle out of which Johnson s moral view of life emerged. The author presents a challenging reading of the "Rambler" essays and "Rasselas," unveiling the presence in these works of Johnson s inner life" Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333793
- ISBN
- 9780820333793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.59
€ 40.99
€ 33.59