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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Editor(s): Ebbesen, Sten. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899237
ISBN
9788772899237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.72

Hardcover. This is an appraisal od some of the best Czech fiction of the 20th century. After a brief introduction there are chapters on Hasek, Hrabal, Skorecky, Pavel, Klima and a final chapter on Hodrova, Viewegh and Topol. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGZ; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902210803
ISBN
9781902210803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967879
ISBN
9781403967879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

This book explores the fascinating ways in which two French photographic women's magazines of the early 1900s created a visually compelling female role model who could perfectly balance feminism, femininity, and that tricky combination of work and life that is still the subject of debates today. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JJC; DSBH; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 706.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784245
ISBN
9780804784245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 45.52

Paperback. This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is reproduced with an annotated translation by Chiavaroli and Mews. Translator(s): Mews, Dr Constant J. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608139
ISBN
9780230608139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 112.70

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726139
ISBN
9780804726139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.13

Paperback. Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461547
ISBN
9781349461547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.40

Paperback. A collection of essays of Petr Skrabanek, scholar. Editor(s): Armand, Louis; Pilny, Ondrej. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Litteraria Pragensia
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788023888539
ISBN
9788023888539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.75

Paperback. An account of Chinese literary modernism, written from the perspective of Republican China. Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time and analyzes pivotal issues, such as decadence and Orientalism. Series: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220645
ISBN
9780520220645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 608 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444332049
ISBN
9781444332049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.67

paperback. This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537303
ISBN
9781349537303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.28

Paperback. 60 years after Lawrence's death, the nature of his achievement is still being debated. His vision has aroused passionate interest in many countries beyond his own. As a writer in the 20th century and as one with international standing, this book presents Lawrence "in the modern world." Editor(s): Hoare, Peter; Preston, Peter. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349098507
ISBN
9781349098507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.72

Hardcover. This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking, reading, and writing. The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112834
ISBN
9780230112834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.63

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647289
ISBN
9780691647289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 210.32

Paperback. Presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. This book develops a perspective variously historical, philosophical, and cultural by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822317395
ISBN
9780822317395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Paperback. Building on recent work on Victorian print culture and the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, this collection extends the frontiers of scholarship on the 'Atlantic scene' of publishing, exploring new ways of grappling with the rapidlychanginguniverse of print at the turn of the twentieth century." Editor(s): Ardis, Ann L.; Collier, P. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349363872
ISBN
9781349363872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, who were imprisoned for their beliefs. Chapters explore figures' lives, provide close analyses of their works, and offer contextualization of their prison writings. Editor(s): Phillips, Philip Edward. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137428677
ISBN
9781137428677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.61

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647678
ISBN
9780691647678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.23

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606828
ISBN
9780691606828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.87

Paperback. Originally published in French as La geocritique: reel, fiction, espace. Translator(s): Tally, Robert T. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292578
ISBN
9781349292578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 133.21

Paperback. This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra." Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231058391
ISBN
9780231058391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.64

Paperback. This 2007 Companion presents a collection of essays on the work of the African American playwright August Wilson. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521685061
ISBN
9780521685061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.23

Hardback. Arguing for Harlem as a crossroads between writers and the image, this book explores its power for canonical writers, whose work was profoundly responsive to the changing meanings and uses of photographs. It opens possibilities for understanding the entangled histories of literature and the photograph. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130873
ISBN
9780691130873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.23
€ 47.21

Hardback. Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; DSK; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230524781
ISBN
9780230524781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

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