Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Deals with Coetzee's origins, early years, and first writings. This book corrects many of the misconceptions about Coetzee, and that illuminates the genesis and implications of his novels. It is suitable for everybody concerned with Coetzee's life and work. Translator(s): Heyns, Michiel. Num Pages: 712 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 155 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1248.
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922070081
- ISBN
- 9781922070081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.46
€ 38.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Streitfeld, David. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612195896
- ISBN
- 9781612195896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.00
€ 17.99
€ 16.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 800. A Life Raised High. 480 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 35. Weight: 796.
- Publisher
- Pomona
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904590231
- ISBN
- 9781904590231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.18
€ 26.99
€ 23.18
Paperback. A fascinating new biography of the creator of the Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth. Num Pages: 240 pages, Colour photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Lion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745955148
- ISBN
- 9780745955148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.20
€ 13.99
€ 13.20
Paperback. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book engages with the most recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349307074
- ISBN
- 9781349307074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. JG Ballard is one of the most significant British writers of the contemporary period. This guide includes critical perspectives on Ballard's major novels as well as his short stories and journalistic writing covering issues of form, narrative and experimentation. Editor(s): Baxter, Jeannette. Series: Continuum Critical Perspectives. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826497260
- ISBN
- 9780826497260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.34
€ 42.99
€ 35.34
Paperback. BIC Classification: APT; DSB; JFCA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781627796064
- ISBN
- 9781627796064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.90
€ 17.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401357
- ISBN
- 9781474401357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.14
€ 31.99
€ 29.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Duncan, Ian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538409
- ISBN
- 9780199538409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.42
€ 13.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, 25 colour & 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; AGB; BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928988
- ISBN
- 9781869928988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 26.20
€ 38.99
€ 26.20
Hardback. Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Italy Illuminated is a topographical work exploring the Roman roots of Italy. Editor(s): White, Jeffrey. Translator(s): White, Jeffrey. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 465 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 213 x 40. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674054950
- ISBN
- 9780674054950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.15
€ 38.99
€ 33.15
Hardcover. Editor(s): White, Jeffrey A. Translator(s): White, Jeffrey A. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 211 x 37. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017436
- ISBN
- 9780674017436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.07
€ 38.99
€ 33.07
Paperback. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349484775
- ISBN
- 9781349484775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.47
€ 90.47
Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction to Italian Literature, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages up to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 13 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199231799
- ISBN
- 9780199231799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Truran United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850221784
- ISBN
- 9781850221784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.04
€ 8.04
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fisher, Tyler. Num Pages: 128 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916727420
- ISBN
- 9780916727420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.49
€ 20.99
€ 19.49
Paperback. Explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others. This book examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402378
- ISBN
- 9781474402378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.41
€ 37.99
€ 34.41
Hardback. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421403533
- ISBN
- 9781421403533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.85
€ 87.85
Paperback. A sweeping new work revealing Islam's influence on literary Romanticism, mapping the impact of Muslim sources on the West's most seminal authors, from J.W. Goethe to R.W. Emerson Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780745664
- ISBN
- 9781780745664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.13
€ 26.99
€ 26.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; C; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- On Demand
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509859405
- ISBN
- 9781509859405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.48
€ 26.99
€ 18.48
Paperback. Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674467262
- ISBN
- 9780674467262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.07
€ 38.99
€ 33.07
Hardback. This book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418386
- ISBN
- 9781474418386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.23€ 99.72
€ 104.23
€ 99.72
Paperback. Balancing humour, insight and vitriol, Is Shakespeare Dead? is a provocative contribution to the tradition of Shakespeare-doubting, as well as a fine example of the great American novelist's critical writing. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847495990
- ISBN
- 9781847495990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.20
€ 11.20
Paperback. An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era. It looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists; explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions; and applies theories to literary texts. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415251341
- ISBN
- 9780415251341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.65
€ 27.65