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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Sets out and assesses the work of famous sexologists as well as the cultural context and impact of their work. Contributions from a range of scholars in different disciplines which gives the volume a true interdisciplinary appeal. Individual chapters outline a broad range of critical methodologies. Editor(s): Bland, Lucy; Doan, Laura L. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745619835
ISBN
9780745619835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.20

Hardback. He argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801879777
ISBN
9780801879777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.25
€ 51.29

Hardcover. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295991320
ISBN
9780295991320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.19

Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacob's Ladder discusses the reflection of kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature and provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the perception of Kabbalah in Russian consciousness. Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843383
ISBN
9781934843383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.02
€ 67.60

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333447017
ISBN
9780333447017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Explores debates over Peru's modernisation and cultural identity in post-1940 literature, exploring how writers and others confronted challenges of language, style, and narrative form in their attempt to write across their nation's cultural divisions. This book examines the relationship between Peru's white elite and its indigenous majority. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191849
ISBN
9781845191849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Laughlin, Charles A. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530274
ISBN
9781349530274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. This study reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230601345
ISBN
9780230601345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 48.05

Paperback. Makes the case that the plot of the "Odyssey" is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boule, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. This book proposes a "Zeus-centric" reading that offers perspectives on the tenor of interactions among the "Odyssey's" characters. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 165 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028128
ISBN
9780674028128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.85

Hardcover. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403965158
ISBN
9781403965158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Paperback. Cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. The author points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033767
ISBN
9780268033767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Hardback. How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405130554
ISBN
9781405130554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.30

Paperback. The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349453191
ISBN
9781349453191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Hardcover. In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230107168
ISBN
9780230107168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.73

paperback. This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny. Editor(s): Jervis, John. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349355396
ISBN
9781349355396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000469
ISBN
9780226424156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century andthat women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349289400
ISBN
9781349289400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. Explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, this title reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 55 x 85 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226261553
ISBN
9780226261553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.74
€ 43.95

Hardcover. English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday Num Pages: 312 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and some sunning to spine
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000837
ISBN
9780198120933
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801926
ISBN
9780875801926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99

Hardcover. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137271716
ISBN
9781137271716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.85

Paperback. This book is a collection of essays about the invention-and disappearance-of the 'Semites' and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HR; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 330. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756952
ISBN
9780804756952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333804476
ISBN
9780333804476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Paperback. This lively introduction demonstrates the importance of parody for literary and cultural studies, clearly explaining complex arguements surrounding it. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415182218
ISBN
9780415182218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.75

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