Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Editor(s): Edmond-Paul, Mary. Num Pages: 327 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; BGLA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Otago University Press New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578212
- ISBN
- 9781877578212
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.37
€ 23.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. Introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. This book explores the role of the orator, especially the two greatest figures of the tradition, Demosthenes and Cicero. It also investigates the place of rhetoric at the center of ancient education. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235156
- ISBN
- 9780631235156
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.75
€ 42.99
€ 42.75
Hardback. The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a region once known for its production of artistic objects. Discussing the spectator experience of this famed play, Young argues that vision is the organizing principle that informs this play's staging, structure, and narrative. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465597
- ISBN
- 9781137465597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Paperback. Combines Nayar s The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary and Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology within one student set offering uniquely broad coverage of terms, concepts, and debates within the field. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 275 x 203 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1294.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119120308
- ISBN
- 9781119120308
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Condition: New
€ 63.42
€ 63.42
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442276192
- ISBN
- 9781442276192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.62€ 22.91
€ 159.62
€ 22.91
Paperback. This is a new edition of the second volume of an anthology that has been called "the new standard." Editor(s): Black, Rabbi Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; LePan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Ms. Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire. Num Pages: 1720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 244 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1684.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813124
- ISBN
- 9781554813124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.62
€ 99.62
Hardback. Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolome de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482631
- ISBN
- 9781137482631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Hardback. Literary professors, and academia in general, have a history of turning a blind eye against popular fiction but why? The Ulysses Delusion explores this question by linking this literary condescension to a wider discussion on the gendered history of reading novels. Topics include Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553621
- ISBN
- 9781137553621
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Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Duquesne University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704418
- ISBN
- 9780820704418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.34€ 61.59
€ 73.34
€ 61.59
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
Hardback. Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520609
- ISBN
- 9781137520609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.78
€ 132.78
Paperback. Translator(s): Winston, Richard; Winston, Clara. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691619279
- ISBN
- 9780691619279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319519371
- ISBN
- 9783319519371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.87
€ 111.87
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451135
- ISBN
- 9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. This new interdisciplinary collection spanning anthropology, image studies, literary criticism, psychology and history explores the ways in which children's books were important vehicles for the expression of national identities, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, right up until the present day. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Emer; Immel, Andrea. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461681
- ISBN
- 9781137461681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.84
€ 175.84
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177726
- ISBN
- 9780231177726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.08€ 50.01
€ 64.08
€ 50.01
Hardback. This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists. Editor(s): Ward, Abigail. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137526427
- ISBN
- 9781137526427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.90
€ 111.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Kerrigan, Anthony; Nozick, Martin. Series: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691611792
- ISBN
- 9780691611792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.08€ 50.27
€ 64.08
€ 50.27
Hardback. Leading to protest and debate, same-sex desire in Indian literature and film has appeared in a wide range of works since 1970 including Vikram Seth and the films of Deepa Mehta. Using these works as a focal point, among many others, Ross argues that an Euro-American notion of homosexuality is reinvented when coming into contact with Indian culture. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 2BM; APFA; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137570758
- ISBN
- 9781137570758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JMAF; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109970
- ISBN
- 9780231109970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99