Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Metatheatre, or "theatre within theatre," is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama. This text applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of Sophocles, shedding light on his technical ingenuity and revealing facets of fifth-century performative irony. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AHA; AN; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807846971
- ISBN
- 9780807846971
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€ 58.33
€ 58.33
Paperback. After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John Winthrop, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Samuel Clemens. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847435
- ISBN
- 9780807847435
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Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Paperback. The African-American poet and playwright, Amiri Baraka, helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This work examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centres of late-20th century America. Num Pages: 348 pages, 25 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3; JPFN; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847619
- ISBN
- 9780807847619
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Condition: New
€ 52.09
€ 52.09
Paperback. A study of how Americans wrote, published and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the 19th century. It also reveals disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of US history, and the place of US literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. Num Pages: 464 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847657
- ISBN
- 9780807847657
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Condition: New
€ 57.46
€ 57.46
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
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Condition: New
€ 50.62
€ 50.62
Paperback. A study of directions in autobiography. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in crisis but develops a resolution, whereas contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crisis. The author examines works by a range of writers, including Primo Levi, Ernest Hemingway and Mary Meigs. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847824
- ISBN
- 9780807847824
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Condition: New
€ 56.26
€ 56.26
Paperback. Explores the ways in which text and image can interact with and reflect on one another in the context of autobiography. The text focuses on the work of many writers and photographers and includes work by Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Eudora Welty, Wright Morris and Edward Weston. Num Pages: 368 pages, 54 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AJ; BGA; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847923
- ISBN
- 9780807847923
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Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. A call for the redesign of Western cultural studies - one that engages issues of gender and race. Surveying work by writers such as Joan Didion and Wanda Coleman, it shows how they have mapped new geographical imaginations upon the cultural and social spaces of today's American West. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848135
- ISBN
- 9780807848135
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Condition: New
€ 50.97
€ 50.97
Paperback. A history of the Book-of-the-Month Club from its founding in 1926, which suggests that the books recommended by the club have been instrumental in forming literary taste in America and in defining the desires of the middle class. The author also reflects on the role of the club in her own life. Num Pages: 448 pages, 9 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; JFSV; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848302
- ISBN
- 9780807848302
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Condition: New
€ 54.19
€ 54.19
Paperback. This work combines an narrative of Glaspell's life with an analysis of her creative work. Rebelling early against the expectations imposed on women of her era, Glaspell grappled with the conflict between Victorian mores and feminist aspirations throughout her life. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848685
- ISBN
- 9780807848685
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Condition: New
€ 56.86
€ 56.86
Paperback. This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility within contemporary American society. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HBTS; JFSL1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849170
- ISBN
- 9780807849170
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Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17
Paperback. In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Num Pages: 296 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849217
- ISBN
- 9780807849217
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€ 50.51
€ 50.51
Paperback. A blend of environmental theory and literary studies, looking behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier". It traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity and national identity. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 illustrations, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; DSB; JFC; JH; RGL; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849743
- ISBN
- 9780807849743
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Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17
Paperback. This text looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. It offers a different look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound and Muriel Rukeyser. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807849798
- ISBN
- 9780807849798
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Condition: New
€ 50.45
€ 50.45
Paperback. An account of the US literary Left from the 1920s to 1960s. The first volume of a trilogy, it focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. The author explores the writers' lives and political commitments, drawing on interviews, letters, memoirs, fiction and poetry. Num Pages: 432 pages, 37 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853498
- ISBN
- 9780807853498
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Condition: New
€ 54.53
€ 54.53
Paperback. This is an analysis of the logical structure of the entire text of Aristotles "Politics" and each of its constitutive arguments and conclusions. A commentary on the philosophical argument in "Politics", it should serve as a basis for future study of Aristotle's political thought. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AH; DSBB; HPCA; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853573
- ISBN
- 9780807853573
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. At the close of the 18th century, the poet and clergyman Timothy Dwight waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of "infidelity". This text re-examines this episode by focusing on "The Triumph of Fidelity" (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight's campaign. Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; DSBD; DSC; HRCM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853832
- ISBN
- 9780807853832
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Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Paperback. During the 19th century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace and 12 of the most successful of them provide the focus for this study by Mary Kelley. They wrote books which both embraced and questioned the expectations of the women of the time. Num Pages: 448 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854228
- ISBN
- 9780807854228
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Condition: New
€ 52.14
€ 52.14
Paperback. A collection of 15 essays exploring the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the end of the century. Individual essays address the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T.S. Eliot and Chester Himes. Editor(s): Mullen, Bill V.; Smethurst, James. Series: John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854778
- ISBN
- 9780807854778
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Condition: New
€ 53.93
€ 53.93
Paperback. Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to places themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in this text. Beginning in the mid-18th century, he shows how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854914
- ISBN
- 9780807854914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.91
€ 50.91