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Literary studies: general

Paperback. An attempt to understand the complexity of the vision and contributions of the African-American writer, James Baldwin, without needing to name him as exclusively homosexual, expatriate, black or activist. A group of scholars discuss Baldwin's life, his presence and his political thought and work. Editor(s): McBride, Dwight A. Num Pages: 356 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814756188
ISBN
9780814756188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.18

Hardback. Shows how W H Auden can speak to us throughout life, suggesting how, despite difficulties and change, we can celebrate understanding, acceptance, and love for others. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 123 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691144733
ISBN
9780691144733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 20.07

Hardback. This book explores the fascinating world of sex and gender roles in the classical period. It provides readers with essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world. Editor(s): Mcclure, Professor Laura K (University of Wisconsin-Madison USA). Series: Interpreting Ancient History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; JFSJ; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631225881
ISBN
9780631225881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.26

Paperback. "This book arises from a conference entitled 'The Perils of Print Culture' organised .. at Trinity College Dublin in September 2010." Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349490554
ISBN
9781349490554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349200962
ISBN
9781349200962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.23

Hardcover. Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two countries. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139368
ISBN
9781571139368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.08

Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520245181
ISBN
9780520245181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Editor(s): McGlathery, James M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252061912
ISBN
9780252061912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction. In particular, it focuses on Thomas Pynchon's three novels to date and his collection of early stories. The theories exploited are concentrated in the work of Jacques Derrida. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333515099
ISBN
9780333515099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.01

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807847770
ISBN
9780807847770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.62

Paperback. An autobiography that explains what it means to be a black ""rebel sojourner"" and presents the exposes of the Harlem Renaissance. This book challenges readers to rethink the author's articulation of identity, art, race, and politics and situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the World Wars. Editor(s): Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA). Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813539683
ISBN
9780813539683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.79

Hardback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 208 x 33. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688591
ISBN
9780856688591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.09

Hardcover. This is the second volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography, charting the period of his life from age 29 to 35. It is filled with portraits of the people and places Hughes encountered during his travels around the world. Num Pages: 408 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 167 x 42. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214348
ISBN
9780826214348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.63

Hardcover. This is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions to New York City and Harlem. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214102
ISBN
9780826214102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; DSBF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349218257
ISBN
9781349218257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.63

Paperback. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious. Editor(s): Fulton, Doveanna S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349448555
ISBN
9781349448555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

Hardback. This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin. Num Pages: 600 pages, bibliographies. BIC Classification: 3JJ; CFA; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1541.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748612550
ISBN
9780748612550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.69
€ 159.50

Paperback. This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Editor(s): McTurk, Rory. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 31. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163675
ISBN
9781405163675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.14

Paperback. Contains extracts from Johnson's several interviews, giving an account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. This title brings up many elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism and the importance of family to him. Editor(s): McWilliams, Jim. Series: V Ethel Willis White Books. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780295984391
ISBN
9780295984391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879726324
ISBN
9780879726324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.26

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