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Paperback. This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066337
- ISBN
- 9780719066337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.54
€ 29.54
Paperback. Series: Focus on. 65 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 5. Weight: 96.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Number of pages
- 65
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075064
- ISBN
- 9781906075064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.92
€ 14.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. A collection of profiles and essays, which proffers observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. It considers writers associated with the "New Yorker" magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Num Pages: 251 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520252370
- ISBN
- 9780520252370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Hardback. From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, this text uncovers the strategies black writers used to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to a white audience. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080941
- ISBN
- 9780231080941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.87€ 79.61
€ 105.87
€ 79.61
Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a Ne...
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Paperback. Including Heidegger's nationalist valorization of the German language and sense of nationhood, or Heimat, the author argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in Hlderlin's poetics, such as a Kantian understanding of aesthetic subjectivity and a commitment to Enlightenment ideals. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223619
- ISBN
- 9780823223619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.07
€ 45.99
€ 40.07
paperback. CZ;SK Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024629353
- ISBN
- 9788024629353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 30.39
€ 37.99
€ 30.39
Paperback. Provides the study of the novels of James Kelman, Scotland's influential contemporary prose artist and 1994 Booker Prize winner. This title offers readings of Kelman's style, characterisation and linguistic innovations within the diverse contexts of Scottish socialism, 'Booker Prize' culture and Glasgow's 'City of Culture' status in 1990. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070976
- ISBN
- 9780719070976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.66
€ 31.66
Hardcover. New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139405
- ISBN
- 9781571139405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.15
€ 94.15
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623917
- ISBN
- 9780691623917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.67
€ 81.67
hardcover. A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Editor(s): Graham, Maryemma; Ward, Jerry W. Num Pages: 860 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 860
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521872171
- ISBN
- 9780521872171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.23€ 161.42
€ 169.23
€ 161.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 5S; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789888083718
- ISBN
- 9789888083718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.39
€ 30.39
Hardback. Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780812240436
- ISBN
- 9780812240436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.34
€ 112.34
Hardback. This text offers an appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production. It engages the debate concerning his role in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative positions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847697502
- ISBN
- 9780847697502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.33
€ 163.33
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691621722
- ISBN
- 9780691621722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 89.76€ 67.85
€ 89.76
€ 67.85
Hardback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743457
- ISBN
- 9780804743457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.59
€ 139.59
Paperback. "Shamela" is a parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph. Editor(s): Hawley, Judith. Num Pages: 432 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0006000
- ISBN
- 9780140433869
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139845
- ISBN
- 9780691139845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.29
€ 45.99
€ 32.29
Hardcover. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 26. Series: Irish Literacy Studies Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004306
- ISBN
- 9780389207146
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630649
- ISBN
- 9780691630649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.32
€ 106.32
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135018
- ISBN
- 9781571135018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.15
€ 105.15
Paperback. Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early-eighteenth century English historical writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099243
- ISBN
- 9780719099243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.28
€ 35.28
paperback. Translator(s): Mitchell, S. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Merlin Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850362381
- ISBN
- 9780850362381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.84
€ 16.99
€ 15.84
Hardback. Containing 17 essays by 16 contemporary literary critics, this text presents late-1990s thinking of 17th- to 18th-century literature. It aims to help students and teachers find new approaches to central canonical works and also provides introductions to several of the less well known writers. Editor(s): Robert Demaria., Prof (Vassar College, New York USA). Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197393
- ISBN
- 9780631197393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.43
€ 132.43
Hardback. Presents an introduction to Japanese fiction. This book profiles five writers Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Ko bo, and Shiba Ryo taro. It also describes the author's personal encounters with them with autobiographical observations and his literary and cultural analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126106
- ISBN
- 9780231126106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06€ 69.64
€ 92.06
€ 69.64