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Hardcover. This text surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681640
- ISBN
- 9780333681640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1977
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349157679
- ISBN
- 9781349157679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.37
€ 47.37
Paperback. Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England. Editor(s): McDonald, Nicola (Lecturer in English and Medieval Studies,, University of York). Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063190
- ISBN
- 9780719063190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.40
€ 33.40
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; HRKP3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137466341
- ISBN
- 9781137466341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Nusser, Tanja. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139016
- ISBN
- 9781571139016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.84
€ 106.84
Hardcover. These essays, in honour of Andre Crepin, reflect the wide range of his interests in Old and Middle English, from "Beowulf" to Malory. The theme is heroism, as abstract and reality, and the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Chaucer's Knight to Sir Lancelot. Editor(s): Carruthers, Leo. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 174 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859914154
- ISBN
- 9780859914154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.28
€ 72.28
Paperback. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993508
- ISBN
- 9780295993508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238391
- ISBN
- 9780312238391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Paperback. Focusing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, this book examines the relationships between politics, gender and feeling. It treats the qualities that were once seen to mar their work as strategies of representation during a time of political change. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226401843
- ISBN
- 9780226401843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.36
€ 46.99
€ 36.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; H; TB; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403935045
- ISBN
- 9781403935045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623603
- ISBN
- 9780691623603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.90
€ 49.90
Paperback. This book explores a form of literary racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed in fictional characters who present a white face to the world even as they unconsciously perform cultural blackness, such as in the work of William Faulkner among others, revealing that being merely Caucasian was insufficient to claim Southern Whiteness. Num Pages: 213 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340442
- ISBN
- 9780230340442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Chaucerian Aesthetics engages both aesthetic pleasure and understanding in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and places them in relation to modern approaches to mind and language. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606685
- ISBN
- 9780230606685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
paperback. Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349436323
- ISBN
- 9781349436323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
hardcover. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847685769
- ISBN
- 9780847685769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.14
€ 193.14
Hardback. This analysis probes the nature of place and the structuring of desire in Tennyson's poetry. Focusing on the poet's early writings - fragments and poems produced between 1824 and 1833 - the author conflates desconstructive theory with psychoanalytic insights. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914787
- ISBN
- 9780813914787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.84
€ 75.84
Hardback. Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to 20th century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633428
- ISBN
- 9780745633428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.74
€ 70.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Heller, Erich; Born, Jurgen. Translator(s): Stern, James. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Schocken Books United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed
- SKU
- V9780805208511
- ISBN
- 9780805208511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.43
€ 21.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349522002
- ISBN
- 9781349522002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Paperback. Offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634606
- ISBN
- 9780748634606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.97
€ 29.99
€ 26.97
Paperback. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339655
- ISBN
- 9781349339655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.09
€ 143.09
Hardback. How do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734363
- ISBN
- 9780804734363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.45
€ 79.45
Hardback. This study explores women writers and gender portrayals at the Japanese Heian court and Heian memoirists creations of themselves in four texts: "Kagero Nikki", "Makura No Soshi", "Sarashina Nikki, and "Sanuki No Suke Nikki". Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733786
- ISBN
- 9780804733786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.68
€ 102.68
Paperback. Marshall weaves stories of his own hiking adventures together with reflective explorations of some of the literary works written - from the earliest days of European settlement to the present - on this mountain chain which has been the inspiration for some of America's greatest nature writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSB; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917986
- ISBN
- 9780813917986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.52
€ 35.52