Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Series: Understanding the Ancient World. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 2. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138645394
- ISBN
- 9781138645394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.66
€ 57.66
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859844182
- ISBN
- 9781859844182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.08
€ 19.08
Paperback. Along with a fresh translation of Azuela's classic novel, this volume offers an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and political contexts. Related texts include contemporary reviews of Azuela's work, excerpts from John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico", and selections from Azuela's correspondence. Translator(s): Pellon, Gustavo. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208346
- ISBN
- 9780872208346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.16
€ 17.99
€ 14.16
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911253143
- ISBN
- 9781911253143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.05
€ 33.99
€ 24.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Managing Language in the Digital Age. 272 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 13. Weight: 312.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149914
- ISBN
- 9780231149914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.01
€ 26.99
€ 20.01
Paperback. A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Translator(s): Frayn, Michael. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413774712
- ISBN
- 9780413774712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.27
€ 13.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices. Num Pages: 694 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1228. Notes for James Joyce's "Ulysses", 20th Anniversary Edition. 694 pages, maps. Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 32. Weight: 1216.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 694
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253971
- ISBN
- 9780520253971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 28.96
€ 41.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242559
- ISBN
- 9780571242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.81
€ 17.99
€ 12.81
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679600114
- ISBN
- 9780679600114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.75
€ 30.99
€ 26.75
Hardback. Ugo Foscolo's Tragic Vision in Italy and England examines an underexplored aspect of Foscolo's literary career: his tragic plays and critical essays on that genre. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649262
- ISBN
- 9781442649262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.49
€ 77.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197964
- ISBN
- 9781845197964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.85
€ 27.99
€ 25.85
Paperback. 'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300143102
- ISBN
- 9780300143102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.36
€ 15.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. The Twilight Symbols is a rich A to Z guide of symbols in the Twilight Saga that will lead you to discover whole new worlds, both real and mystical. It will delight and inform Twilight fans, symbol seekers, and the keenest literature detectives. Num Pages: 478 pages. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780994352
- ISBN
- 9781780994352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.00
€ 29.99
€ 26.00
Paperback. D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780769653
- ISBN
- 9781780769653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.25
€ 14.99
€ 12.25
Paperback. Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115672
- ISBN
- 9780691115672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
€ 45.99
€ 32.73
Paperback. 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: 158 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781383377
- ISBN
- 9781781383377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474414852
- ISBN
- 9781474414852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.66
€ 23.99
€ 22.66
Paperback. This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction. Editor(s): Adiseshiah, Sian; Hildyard, Rupert. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349442171
- ISBN
- 9781349442171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590170427
- ISBN
- 9781590170427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.80
€ 17.99
€ 15.80
Paperback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474426107
- ISBN
- 9781474426107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a Douglas Dunn's anthology of poetry. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 36. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228386
- ISBN
- 9780571228386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.70
€ 21.99
€ 15.70
Hardcover. An extended treatment of the complex, changing relationship between poetry and the visual arts. Num Pages: 274 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521887953
- ISBN
- 9780521887953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.02
€ 96.02
Hardcover. A collection of essays which examine the way in which fantasy literature functions as cultural and social criticism. Essays on Tolkien, Le Guin, Angela Carter, H.G. Wells and C.S. Lewis are included, as well as works by William Burroughs, Ford Madox Ford and Salman Rushdie are discussed. Editor(s): Filmer, Kath. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333569542
- ISBN
- 9780333569542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.15
€ 186.15
Paperback. Series: Comics Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; JFCA; WHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813590455
- ISBN
- 9780813590455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.89
€ 45.99
€ 40.89