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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403946980
ISBN
9781403946980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.46
€ 32.02

Paperback. 'Dazzling' John Updike Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
SKU
9780330354912
ISBN
9780330354912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 34. Weight in Grams: 778.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
15th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801869594
ISBN
9780801869594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.11

Paperback. For ten winter days in 1977, the orator Paul John - widely respected as a dean of Yupik elders - held an audience of Yupik students rapt at Nelson Island High School in southwest Alaska. This book records one elder's attempt to create a moral universe for future generations through stories about the special knowledge of the Yupik people. Editor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Translator(s): Shield, Sophie. Num Pages: 856 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
856
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295983509
ISBN
9780295983509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 45.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589351
ISBN
9781932589351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.30

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333428702
ISBN
9780333428702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Hardback. Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead - this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Num Pages: 211 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190309
ISBN
9781845190309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.03

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530007
ISBN
9781349530007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This literary life of the best-known and best-loved Romantic poet uses Coleridge's own 'literary life' - his Biographia Literaria - as both starting point and destination. Now available in paperback, William Christie's immensely readable account of Coleridge's life and works offers detailed discussion of all his major poems and criticism. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580961
ISBN
9780230580961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 29.59

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349451005
ISBN
9781349451005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Talks about the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is central to modern poetic culture. This book features an appendix of 100 poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 charts, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024533
ISBN
9780674024533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.81
€ 48.30

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403964113
ISBN
9781403964113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Paperback. This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029517
ISBN
9780268029517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.37

Hardcover. Presents the biography of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC. This book describes how Hammurabi dealt with powerful rivals and extended his kingdom. It explores the administration of the kingdom and the legacies of his rule, especially his legal code. Series: Blackwell Ancient Lives. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405126595
ISBN
9781405126595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.71

Hardcover. This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle-poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to arguments that have our attention and energies in the twenty-first century. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105102
ISBN
9780230105102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 41.71

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349353569
ISBN
9781349353569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. The issue of a woman's place - and the possibility that she might stray from it - was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. This book takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321675
ISBN
9780822321675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349288656
ISBN
9781349288656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. This book weaves an argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. It will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; AVGJ; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226218212
ISBN
9780226218212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Paperback. This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; D; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781107403932
ISBN
9781107403932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.37

Hardback. An introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896818
ISBN
9780859896818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.27

Hardcover. This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137262950
ISBN
9781137262950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.38

Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754194
ISBN
9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333794609
ISBN
9780333794609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

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