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Literary studies: general

hardcover. An essential bibliographic resource for scholars, librarians, collectors and booksellers. Num Pages: 1296 pages, 23 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 77. Weight in Grams: 2136.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
1296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781107026377
ISBN
9781107026377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.81

hardcover. Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands. His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Num Pages: 421 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
421
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823212217
ISBN
9780823212217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.55

Paperback. Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603846264
ISBN
9781603846264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.26

Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270442
ISBN
9780803270442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.24

Hardback. Offering powerful new perspectives on Lincoln, Emerson, Whitman and Melville, Meltzer reveals how the Constitution counterintuitively generated such oft-noted tendencies as these writers' penchant for self-contradiction, their willingness to court radical discontinuity, and their intensely conflicted, romance-directed fictions. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674019126
ISBN
9780674019126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.69
€ 59.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761819455
ISBN
9780761819455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.78

Hardcover. This original study suggests that James Joyce, like Yeats and his fellow Revivalists, was attracted to the west of Ireland as a place of authenticity and freedom. It shows how his acute historical sensibility is reflected in Dubliners, posing new questions about one of the most enduring collections of short stories ever written. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 2340 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318238
ISBN
9781846318238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Paperback. "Joyce and the G-Men" explores Hoover's suspicions that James Joyce was a Communist. In his FBI file, Culleton tracks the evidence of the FBI's surveillance of Joyce to show the culture of the FBI under Hoover and the resurgence of American anti-intellectualism. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349386420
ISBN
9781349386420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.28
€ 63.07

Hardback. Some of Emerson's most famous essays, such as "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," and "The Over-Soul," appeared in his Essays of 1841. This edition provides the authoritative text of the Essays, with an introduction, notes, and supplementary material valuable for studying the evolution of Emerson's thought and style. Num Pages: 424 pages, 4 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 871.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674139800
ISBN
9780674139800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.37
€ 110.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975210
ISBN
9781555975210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.55

Hardback. A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. Chapters explore the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyze his body of work, and assess his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical. Editor(s): Chinitz, David E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 178 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405162371
ISBN
9781405162371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.49

Paperback. Editor(s): Burns, Tom; Cornelsen, Elcio; Jaeckel, Volker; Gustavo Vieira, Luiz. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JPWS. Dimension: 210 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838206776
ISBN
9783838206776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 289 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DQ; DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231068857
ISBN
9780231068857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.39

hardcover. Osip Mandelstam is the maverick Russian poet. This title carries the reader through Mandelstam's early life and education in prerevolutionary Petersburg and at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843284
ISBN
9781934843284
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.29

paperback. Provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, this book refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4-colour cover illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675723
ISBN
9781904675723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.94

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 914.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641942
ISBN
9780691641942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147323
ISBN
9780231147323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.27
€ 76.28

Hardcover. Books VIII &IX are crucial to the structure of the Iliad, and, while both of them have been extensively discussed in the Unitarian/Analyst debate, neither has perhaps received the attention that their fine literary qualities deserve. Editor(s): Wilson, C. H. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686276
ISBN
9780856686276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.12

Paperback. Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels - "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", and "The Devils" - and two of his best novellas, "The Gambler" and "The Eternal Husband". This is a biography of Dostoevsky that covers the six productive years in the novelist's entire career. Num Pages: 539 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015873
ISBN
9780691015873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.49

hardcover. This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Editor(s): Fernandez, Jose Maria Perez; Wilson-Lee, Edward. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107080041
ISBN
9781107080041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.39

paperback. Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of remarkable innovation in eighteenth-century Europe that remain active in today: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804742122
ISBN
9780804742122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.55

Hardback. The work of Mehmedalija 'Mak' Dizdar (1917-1971) is the cornerstone of modern Bosnian literature. His work blends influences from Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism, and the cultural remains of medieval Bosnia. This book focuses on Dizdar's collection "Stone Sleeper". It discusses Dizdar's mystically influenced poem "Blue River". Translator(s): Risaluddin, Saba. Series: Abrahamic Dialogues. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231683
ISBN
9780823231683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. A new glossary and helpful textual information make Chaucer's masterpiece more accessible in this second edition. Editor(s): Boenig, Robert; Taylor, Andrew. Num Pages: 510 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 198 x 3. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
510
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811069
ISBN
9781554811069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811211666
ISBN
9780811211666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.87

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