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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose. Editor(s): Blinder, Caroline. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287475
ISBN
9781349287475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.27

Hardcover. The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. This book offers guidance on how the theories and methodologies of rhetorical studies can enhance all work in digital humanities, and vice versa. Editor(s): Ridolfo, Jim; Hart-Davidson, William. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226176550
ISBN
9780226176550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.20
€ 75.95

Paperback. Full-length study of Milton's use of languages and the impact of his multilingualism on his major poems. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521022378
ISBN
9780521022378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.87

Paperback. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is the towering intellectual giant of early twentieth-century Spain. He wrote novels, plays, poetry and many essays, but is best remembered for his fictional works and for his major philosophical meditation on the nature of existence. Editor(s): Macklin, John. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688683
ISBN
9780856688683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.37

Paperback. Britain's Bloodless Revolutions, now in paperback with a new preface, explores the relationship of the emerging category of 'Literature' as a kind of political institution to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 213 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137018670
ISBN
9781137018670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 31.53

Hardback. The author examines the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, focusing on the highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their potential and ideological goals. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; 2CSJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804749015
ISBN
9780804749015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.06

Hardcover. Troubled by his complex sexuality, Harold Monro was a tormented soul, whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. This biography intends to rescue Monro from the graveyard of literary history and claim for him the recognition he deserves. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGH; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333779347
ISBN
9780333779347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.82

Paperback. Examines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as those who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on research of manuscripts and documents, this study reveals the importance of professional, urban classes as cultivators of early Italian poetry. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041229
ISBN
9780268041229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

Hardback. This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 black-and-white figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; CF; D; DN; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780198795902
ISBN
9780198795902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.41

Paperback. Offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a fresh light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 39. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887468
ISBN
9780801887468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.54

Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206458
ISBN
9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.76
€ 47.12

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kelly, Stephen; Perry, Ryan. Num Pages: 676 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 172 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1276.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Brepols Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9782503549354
ISBN
9782503549354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.29
€ 110.57

Hardback. This text completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with "Victorian Bloomsbury" and continued with "Edwardian Bloomsbury". The book analyses interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333458242
ISBN
9780333458242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; ACX; AFC; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196011
ISBN
9781845196011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.47

Paperback. A translation of the important Medieval text. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531592
ISBN
9781349531592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardcover. Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230604667
ISBN
9780230604667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.94
€ 50.02

Paperback. Reveals a productive aspect of Walter Benjamin's thought by focusing on a little-discussed stylistic trait in his formulation of concepts. This book explains that nouns formed with this suffix refer to a possibility or potentiality, to a capacity rather than an existing reality. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HPC; HPN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046061
ISBN
9780674046061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403966438
ISBN
9781403966438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040369
ISBN
9780268040369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.25
€ 55.18

Paperback. Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405141543
ISBN
9781405141543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.28

Paperback. Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349456567
ISBN
9781349456567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. 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: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110458
ISBN
9780230110458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.73

Paperback. This book surveys more than 200 plays about the First World War that were written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1. 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
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349357802
ISBN
9781349357802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

hardcover. This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638451
ISBN
9780748638451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.15

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