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Paperback. Since colonial times, Americans have viewed themselves as distinct from the inhabitants of other lands. Embracing critical and sympathetic viewpoints alike, this work combines scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic for a survey of Exceptionalism, one of the long-standing concerns of American Studies. Editor(s): Carter, Dale. Series: The Dolphin. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 656.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772883830
- ISBN
- 9788772883830
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Condition: New
€ 22.02
€ 22.02
Paperback. This study of Benjamin's "The Origin of German Tragic Drama" views it as a critique of anthropocentric historical thinking, which introduces an ethico-theological dimension. It reconstructs this dimension by analyzing the stones, animals and angels that are scattered throughout his writings. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226845
- ISBN
- 9780520226845
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.97
€ 35.99
€ 25.97
Hardback. This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Editor(s): Cartmell, Deborah. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 25. Weight in Grams: 858.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334975
- ISBN
- 9781444334975
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Condition: New
€ 188.21
€ 188.21
Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537532
- ISBN
- 9781349537532
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Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Paperback. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349100323
- ISBN
- 9781349100323
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Condition: New
€ 121.75
€ 121.75
Hardcover. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114074
- ISBN
- 9780230114074
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Condition: New
€ 50.53€ 45.89
€ 50.53
€ 45.89
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647838
- ISBN
- 9780691647838
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Condition: New
€ 173.29
€ 173.29
Paperback. The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the a historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. This book re-examines these two poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant. Editor(s): Finucci, Valeria. Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322955
- ISBN
- 9780822322955
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.02
€ 32.99
€ 30.02
Paperback. Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349364589
- ISBN
- 9781349364589
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Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Hardback. Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429285
- ISBN
- 9781137429285
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
paperback. This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. Editor(s): Brown, Ian; Riach, Alan. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 272 pages. Editor(s): Brown, Ian; Riach, Alan. This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748636945
- ISBN
- 9780748636945
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.63
€ 40.99
€ 36.63
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608167
- ISBN
- 9780691608167
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Condition: New
€ 44.13
€ 44.13
Paperback. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292899
- ISBN
- 9781349292899
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Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231070508
- ISBN
- 9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.93€ 77.50
€ 101.93
€ 77.50
paperback. Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CFB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521721615
- ISBN
- 9780521721615
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.41
€ 41.99
€ 39.41
Paperback. Presents Albert Camus' WWII resistance and early postwar writings published in Combat, the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer. These writing depict issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for collaborators, the return of POWs, to the postwar role of international institutions. Editor(s): Levi-Valensi, Jacqueline. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133768
- ISBN
- 9780691133768
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.52
€ 38.99
€ 28.52
Hardback. This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537583
- ISBN
- 9780230537583
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Series: Asian American History & Culture. Num Pages: 222 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781439912263
- ISBN
- 9781439912263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.03
€ 98.03
Hardback. This book seeks to establish the importance of the erotic element in Calvino's work through an investigation of the connection between his theories on language and sexual representation. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838635315
- ISBN
- 9780838635315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.29
€ 114.29
Hardcover. Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308337
- ISBN
- 9781137308337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.87
€ 64.87
Paperback. This volume of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent scholarship about Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. The papers are followed by a bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre, a list of his works, and the bio-profiles of the contributors to the volume. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557533784
- ISBN
- 9781557533784
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Condition: New
€ 46.85
€ 46.85
Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776356
- ISBN
- 9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.48
€ 38.99
€ 35.48
Hardback. This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722995
- ISBN
- 9780804722995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.95
€ 129.95
Hardcover. This title considers: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333971710
- ISBN
- 9780333971710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66