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Literary studies: general
Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226015170
- ISBN
- 9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.44
€ 31.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. 'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.' From the point of view of his life now, the author moves you through the events of his life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571283248
- ISBN
- 9780571283248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.25
€ 14.99
€ 11.25
Paperback. First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry. Editor(s): Batchelor, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249885
- ISBN
- 9781852249885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.92
€ 13.99
€ 12.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761809647
- ISBN
- 9780761809647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.70
€ 78.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Binding, Paul. Series: Babel Guides to Literature in English Translation. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACS; DSB; DSK; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Boulevard Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899460304
- ISBN
- 9781899460304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.64
€ 13.99
€ 11.64
hardcover. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this catalogue evaluates Cambridge University Library's world-class collection of illuminated manuscripts for the very first time. Num Pages: 532 pages, 720 b/w illus. 192 colour illus. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ACK; ACN; AKLB; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 281 x 228 x 49. Weight in Grams: 2806.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521848923
- ISBN
- 9780521848923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 333.06
€ 333.06
Paperback. This volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Num Pages: 340 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226074276
- ISBN
- 9780226074276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.85
€ 42.99
€ 32.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781682616
- ISBN
- 9781781682616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.21
€ 13.99
€ 13.21
paperback. This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537303
- ISBN
- 9781349537303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.44
€ 63.44
Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976697
- ISBN
- 9781403976697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Paperback. This is the definitive edition (including drafts, notes, and ancillary materials) of Paul Celan's Meridian, the most important poetological manifesto of the second half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Boschenstein, Bernhard; Schmull, Heino. Translator(s): Joris, Pierre. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739528
- ISBN
- 9780804739528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. This broad and original study of the full range of John Clare's work is the first to take seriously his repeated appeals to the judgement of future readers. A series of close readings reveals Clare's sophisticated poetics: his covert quotations, his careful analysis of the history, and his fascination with literary success and posthumous fame. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517639
- ISBN
- 9780230517639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Series: Crime File S. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333776681
- ISBN
- 9780333776681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. This title traces the development of Laurence's voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the Manawaka Cycle. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644510
- ISBN
- 9780888644510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Hardcover. The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fictionand the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s." Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBJD1; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202955
- ISBN
- 9780230202955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403971272
- ISBN
- 9781403971272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558633
- ISBN
- 9781137558633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardback. Interests in the erotic in western culture act in counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and pose questions about the significance of sexuality. This book proposes a "mythopoetics of sex" with which to explore Beckett's work as a whole. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681626
- ISBN
- 9780333681626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Paperback. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Num Pages: 327 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452. 327 pages, Ill. This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight: 458.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 327
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231055277
- ISBN
- 9780231055277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.19
€ 42.99
€ 30.19
Hardback. Spanning Stoppard's career from "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (1967) to "Hapgood" (1988), this study shows the author's development from moral affirmation to moral application, from the assertion of moral principles to the enactment of moral practice. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 387.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333489789
- ISBN
- 9780333489789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.03
€ 186.03