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paperback. Identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. This book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated English - that testify in various ways to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar avant-garde writings. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226349749
- ISBN
- 9780226349749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.11
€ 34.99
€ 23.11
Paperback. With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day. Editor(s): Wells, C. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320295
- ISBN
- 9781349320295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.58
€ 63.58
Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149518
- ISBN
- 9780231149518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.24
€ 49.24
Paperback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495405
- ISBN
- 9781349495405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
hardcover. A running philosophical commentary to the two books Against the Physicists by the second-century sceptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus. Editor(s): Algra, Keimpe; Ierodiakonou, Katerina. Num Pages: 443 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107069244
- ISBN
- 9781107069244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.48
€ 136.48
Hardback. This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118781050
- ISBN
- 9781118781050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.14
€ 106.14
Hardback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333666623
- ISBN
- 9780333666623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
New Alliances In Joyce Studies: When Its Aped to Foul a Dephian
Scott, Bonnie K.. Ed(S): Scott, Bonnie K.
hardcover. "Essays .. initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers .. at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985"--Introd. Editor(s): Scott, Bonnie K. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133288
- ISBN
- 9780874133288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.57
€ 126.57
Paperback. A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 335 x 20. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781383292
- ISBN
- 9781781383292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.08
€ 138.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349189724
- ISBN
- 9781349189724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.97
€ 120.97
Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Wo...
Pamela R. . Ed(S): Matthews
hardcover. Ellen Glasgow's originality of mind and fascination with her native South are in display in this selection of her correspondence with women. Covering more than sixty years, Perfect Companionship collects some 250 letters. Editor(s): Matthews, Pamela R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11ill. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923352
- ISBN
- 9780813923352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
Paperback. Theodore Dreiser is indisputably one of America's most important twentieth-century novelists. "An American Tragedy", "Sister Carrie", and "Jennie Gerhardt" have all made an indelible mark on the American literary landscape. This title offers an original interpretations of Dreiser's works. Editor(s): Gogol, Miriam. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814730744
- ISBN
- 9780814730744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.13
€ 34.99
€ 31.13
Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885662
- ISBN
- 9780801885662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.84
€ 73.84
Paperback. Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhan's "The medium is the message" and Frye's "the great code." Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442616165
- ISBN
- 9781442616165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.66
€ 42.99
€ 37.66
Hardback. Offering an intriguing new approach to American cultural history through one of its enduring icons, Larzer Ziff traces the rise and flourishing of an ideal type once represented by such figures as George Washington and Tom Sawyer - a type immensely popular before antiheroes like Holden Caulfield captured our imagination Series: Discovering America. Num Pages: 154 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780292738928
- ISBN
- 9780292738928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.03
€ 24.03
Hardback. Covers fifty years of criticism of Graham Greene, a leading man of letters on the English literary scene. Series: The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies Series. Num Pages: 423 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 423
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810814189
- ISBN
- 9780810814189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.05
€ 145.05
Paperback. In Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." This book uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; RNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926568
- ISBN
- 9780813926568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.42
€ 36.42
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640570
- ISBN
- 9780691640570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.19
€ 156.19
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635095
- ISBN
- 9780691635095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.23
€ 180.23
Hardback. Volume Three of Kipling's letters covers the decade 1900-10, the years in which he published "Kim" and the "Just So Stories". The narrative of his life includes the years in South Africa, his move to Bateman's in Sussex and him being awarded the Nobel Prize. Num Pages: 494 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; BGA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 787.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333637333
- ISBN
- 9780333637333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.70
€ 124.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480713
- ISBN
- 9780801480713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.22
€ 62.22
Hardback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190293
- ISBN
- 9781845190293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.14
€ 126.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hayes-Healy, Stephanie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969163
- ISBN
- 9781403969163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.90
€ 64.90
Paperback. Includes stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005140
- ISBN
- 9780140433715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95