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Paperback. Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075433
- ISBN
- 9780226075433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.30
€ 31.99
€ 25.30
Hardback. Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' of the 1930s. It explores both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. Editor(s): Parrinder, Patrick; Gasiorek, Professor Andrzej. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 180 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199559336
- ISBN
- 9780199559336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.03
€ 247.03
Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century. Series: Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470657317
- ISBN
- 9780470657317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.24
€ 101.24
Paperback. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion. Editor(s): Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894619
- ISBN
- 9780801894619
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.10
€ 37.99
€ 32.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Ganim, John M.; Legassie, Shayne Aaron. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341085
- ISBN
- 9781349341085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Hardcover. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343833
- ISBN
- 9781137343833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813563381
- ISBN
- 9780813563381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.71
€ 165.71
Paperback. Analyzes various literary genres and world literatures including: Shakespeare's plays; modern Austrian authors writing in German (Thomas Bernhard); the Spanish poets of the Generacion del '50; Malaysian-Singaporean poets in English; and, Anglo-American Modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound and Lawrence) and novelists (Woolf and Conrad). Editor(s): Miller, Donna R.; Turci., Monica. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 figures. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845539092
- ISBN
- 9781845539092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.77
€ 50.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349239887
- ISBN
- 9781349239887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 186.19
€ 186.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877276043
- ISBN
- 9780877276043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardback. Editor(s): Nakassis, Dimitri; Gulizio, Joann; James, Sarah A. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 tables, 31 B/W figures. BIC Classification: DSBB; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 284 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- INSTAP Academic Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931534765
- ISBN
- 9781931534765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.18
€ 118.18
Hardback. Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture. Num Pages: 186 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480108
- ISBN
- 9781611480108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.58
€ 91.58
Hardback. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. This book includes two interlinked essays that proposes the notion of virtual traumato that describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects and relays. It examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion of war on terror. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231232
- ISBN
- 9780823231232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.87
€ 91.87
Hardback. Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists, the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. Editor(s): Olson, Danel. Num Pages: 710 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JMC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1168.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 710
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810877283
- ISBN
- 9780810877283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.75
€ 142.75
Paperback. While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the new centuryA" would achieve normalization.A" Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Herminghouse, Patricia. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451682
- ISBN
- 9780857451682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.34
€ 45.34
Hardcover. "Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours," writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities - the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630197
- ISBN
- 9780815630197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.91
€ 54.91
Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724647
- ISBN
- 9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 31.10
Hardback. This study comprises an introduction, translation, and commentary to a 17th-century Russian account of the spiritual development and inspired resistance of a prominent female dissident. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; DSBD; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739101773
- ISBN
- 9780739101773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.50
€ 120.50
Hardcover. Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new wave feminism. She analyzes how writers chose to represent a range of issues, exploring in the process how the their priorities affect their decisions on how to write. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333729533
- ISBN
- 9780333729533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Critical Edition of Ciperis de Vignevaux, with Introduction, Notes, an...
William Sledge . Ed(S): Woods
Paperback. Editor(s): Woods, William Sledge. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807890097
- ISBN
- 9780807890097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.15
€ 37.15
Hardback. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 294 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319289908
- ISBN
- 9783319289908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.15
€ 112.15
Paperback. Desperately sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward, Hans Christian Andersen found grace and acceptance through the creation of a distinct and beguiling literary world. This biography demonstrates the unity of his troubled life and the soaring achievement of his work. Num Pages: 552 pages, 12pp b&w illustrations, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140283204
- ISBN
- 9780140283204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Hardback. For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2AHA; DSBB; DSK; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224049
- ISBN
- 9780520224049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.81€ 44.66
€ 56.81
€ 44.66
Paperback. Learn the ins-and-out of the supervillain.. Illustrator(s): Wallenta, Adam. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620876336
- ISBN
- 9781620876336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.71
€ 14.71