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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A unique and original reading of the American imaginary Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611680003
ISBN
9781611680003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.63

Hardback. A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 illus. (8 colour). BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Brandeis University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781611683578
ISBN
9781611683578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.25
€ 64.62

Paperback. This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques used by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Case studies examined include Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381144
ISBN
9781781381144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 335 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781383292
ISBN
9781781383292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 135.12

Hardcover. The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 300 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781383360
ISBN
9781781383360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardback. This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet's art and life. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786940247
ISBN
9781786940247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.00

Hardback. Latest volume in a series which is "a monumental achievement" (Review of English Studies) Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844228
ISBN
9781843844228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.24

Hardback. A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese. Series: Medievalism. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844563
ISBN
9781843844563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.83

Hardback. "An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them." Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844570
ISBN
9781843844570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.89

Hardback. The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844662
ISBN
9781843844662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.82

Hardcover. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography, and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of its complex history. This book tries to identify a Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH5; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846310492
ISBN
9781846310492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardcover. Focuses on Language poetry, reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding the movement. This title discusses poets such as: Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 213 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311154
ISBN
9781846311154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardcover. Examines the poets Plath, Larkin, Heaney, Walcott, Middleton, Fisher, and Duffy, through the lens of displacement. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 246 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311161
ISBN
9781846311161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.12

Paperback. Explores the troubled relationship between postcolonial theory and 'politics', both in the sense of a radical, revolutionary politics associated with anti-colonial struggle, and the almost inevitable implication of literary writers in institutional discourses of power. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311420
ISBN
9781846311420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.40

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

€ 135.52

Hardback. Addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. This book offers an analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis Garcia Montero. Series Editor(s): Shaw, Lisa; Delgado, L.Elena. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311833
ISBN
9781846311833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.11

Hardcover. The vision of the South American rainforest in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity. Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781846311956
ISBN
9781846311956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.12

Hardback. As traditional notions of masculinity have been put into question, there have been representational reactions to and articulations of changing masculinities in post-modern culture. Certain contemporary French cultural productions are illustrative of these changing masculinities. This book offers a comprehensive examination of these manifestations. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSB; JFC; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846312151
ISBN
9781846312151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.12

Hardcover. Explores the relation between poststructuralist thought and postcoloniality, and identifies in that interaction the expression of a particular anxiety concerning the form of theoretical writing. This book argues that this anxiety betrays an unprecedented lucidity concerning the particular challenges of writing about ourselves and others. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 207 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846312304
ISBN
9781846312304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardcover. Uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. This book argues that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations with non-human animals within a deeper understanding of the functions of the category animal. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846312342
ISBN
9781846312342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

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