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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Discovering gothic fiction's role in the development of sexuality Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780252073533
ISBN
9780252073533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.90

Talcroft explores Sutcliff's use of sacred themes through twelve of her most famous novels. Num Pages: 177 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810829824
ISBN
9780810829824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.56

hardcover. In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802037077
ISBN
9780802037077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.73

Hardback. Challenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth. Num Pages: 444 pages, 6 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press California
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728454
ISBN
9780804728454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.39

Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674780286
ISBN
9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.51

Hardback. Storytellers have long been agents of socialization. This text traces the evolution of female characters in young adult fiction from their passive role in books published prior to the 20th century to their increasingly assertive role in books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, footnotes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842908
ISBN
9780810842908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.93

Hardback. Focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. The book concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly "David Copperfield", and on some of the journalistic essays. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333594353
ISBN
9780333594353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Hardcover. This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films games, music, social media, literature and fandom. Editor(s): Hubner, Laura; Leaning, Dr. Marcus; Manning, Paul. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276490
ISBN
9781137276490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.94

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846946684
ISBN
9781846946684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403913319
ISBN
9781403913319
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Hardback. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067127
ISBN
9780674067127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.32

Paperback. A study of death, via author comments, as it appears in the works of contemporary poets providing a Christian appreciation of it within a context of tradition and circumstances. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cowley Publications
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9781561012510
ISBN
9781561012510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.88

Hardcover. This book explores Sara Coleridge's critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623675
ISBN
9780230623675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Paperback. Tagore, a Bengalese writer, artist and thinker won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature and became an international celebrity. These essays arose from an international Tagore Conference held in London in 1986 which aimed to reassess the range of his achievement and the catholicity of his thought. Editor(s): Lago, Mary; Warwick, Ronald. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349091355
ISBN
9781349091355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.21

Hardcover. A reading of the letters between Mozart and his father, placing them in the context of the stylized strategies of the 18th-century epistolary tradition. The book argues that the letters reveal a rebelliousness deep within Mozart's life and work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JF; AVGC4; AVH; BGF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300075427
ISBN
9780300075427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

Paperback. The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405183758
ISBN
9781405183758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.80

paperback. This book focuses on Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, it demonstrates the interconnectedness of their friendships and creativity, giving information about literary composition and artistic output, publication and exhibition, and details literary and artistic influences. It draws on many unpublished sources, including letters and diaries. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 511 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
511
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2007
SKU
V9781349510955
ISBN
9781349510955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.86

Hardcover. Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical art, but rather one that demonstrates an engagement with the politics of literary influence, of gender relations, and of American culture more broadly. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219564
ISBN
9780230219564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Hardcover. Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book redefines the Caribbean beyond the postcolonial debate. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137413062
ISBN
9781137413062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349435401
ISBN
9781349435401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.62

Paperback. Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves. Num Pages: 464 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226448169
ISBN
9780226448169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.81

paperback. A collection of essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study; Crapananzo addresses the enormous problem of describing the self in both its individual and collective projections. Num Pages: 404 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JHM; JMAF; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780674389816
ISBN
9780674389816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.21
€ 46.95

Hardcover. Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and the Welsh language, the nature of political activism, and the function of incarceration. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AFW; CFB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230362840
ISBN
9780230362840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226348438
ISBN
9780226348438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.25

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