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Literary studies: general

Hardback. This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847696086
ISBN
9780847696086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.14

Paperback. This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Editor(s): McTurk, Rory. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 31. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163675
ISBN
9781405163675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.56

Hardcover. This look at romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with a study of the real reader's intervention. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333720493
ISBN
9780333720493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349062539
ISBN
9781349062539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.52

Hardcover. The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220416
ISBN
9780230220416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; F. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319553894
ISBN
9783319553894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.06

Hardcover. With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Sylvia Plath's original typescript for "Ariel" and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes in his role as Plath's literary executor and "Ariel"'s editor. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558493193
ISBN
9781558493193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.66

Paperback. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293604
ISBN
9780312293604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardcover. Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137398888
ISBN
9781137398888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Paperback. A study of masculinity in late medieval English "mystery plays." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBB; HBJD1; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349533978
ISBN
9781349533978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.48

Paperback. Series: Contemporary North American Poetry Series. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609382445
ISBN
9781609382445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.29
€ 46.80

Hardback. Examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of postcolonial and world literature and looks at emergent formations of canons and classics at large. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785211
ISBN
9780804785211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.02

Paperback. An analysis of Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race and fashion. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 374 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226757469
ISBN
9780226757469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.18

Hardback. Editor(s): Laughlin, Charles A. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967824
ISBN
9781403967824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691096810
ISBN
9780691096810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.89
€ 47.40

Hardcover. This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage. Editor(s): Hanson, Clare. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230319462
ISBN
9780230319462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Hardback. Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Beckett's 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237766
ISBN
9780230237766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.78

Paperback. Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and "get a life." So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592132133
ISBN
9781592132133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; CFGA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461509
ISBN
9781349461509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.03

Hardcover. The English civil wars loom large in 17th-century history and literature and the period was one of profound change. This work helps to provide an understanding of the English civil wars' manifold and sometimes indirect presence in the literature of the period. Editor(s): Summers, Claude J.; Pebworth, Ted-Larry. Num Pages: 296 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826212207
ISBN
9780826212207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.09
€ 63.10

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173803
ISBN
9780231173803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.72

Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935287
ISBN
9780813935287
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.98
€ 50.73

Paperback. Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349362486
ISBN
9781349362486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.24

Expanding on the classical triad of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth, the author guides us through Dostoevsky's most difficult paradoxes: goodness that begets evil, beautiful personalities that bring about grief, and criminality that brings about salvation. Do Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSB; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810126930
ISBN
9780810126930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 115.93
€ 103.74

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