Literature »
Literature: history & criticism »
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: general
Results 1 - 24 of 10326
Literary studies: general
Hardback. By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period. Series: Medicine and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867828
- ISBN
- 9780801867828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.36€ 48.01
€ 52.36
€ 48.01
Paperback. Combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed light on the stories, and folk roots. This book examines ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories that arose from these beliefs. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292725089
- ISBN
- 9780292725089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.19
€ 21.99
€ 21.19
Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149518
- ISBN
- 9780231149518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739148075
- ISBN
- 9780739148075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.57
€ 165.57
Hardback. Num Pages: 324 pages, 130 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; DSBB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 321 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1798.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844419
- ISBN
- 9781843844419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.00
€ 115.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956930705
- ISBN
- 9780956930705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.66
€ 30.66
Hardback. Offers a different understanding of American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. This work explores the connections among the aesthetic, emotion, consciousness, and the body in readings that illuminate lesser-known works such as "Elsie Venner" and that resuscitate classics such as "The Yellow Wallpaper." Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025127
- ISBN
- 9780674025127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.14€ 63.02
€ 70.14
€ 63.02
hardcover. Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras. Editor(s): McDonald, Christie; Proulx, Francois. Num Pages: 303 pages, 53 b/w illus. 2 music examples. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107103368
- ISBN
- 9781107103368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.55
€ 95.55
Hardcover. This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 608 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 179 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1186.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122283
- ISBN
- 9781405122283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.81
€ 188.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Jeppesen, Anne Marie Ejdesgaard. Num Pages: 133 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763505505
- ISBN
- 9788763505505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.38
€ 29.99
€ 21.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231034654
- ISBN
- 9780231034654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.29
€ 45.99
€ 32.29
paperback. Traces sentimentality in 19th-century imaginative literature by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality; Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures; and Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823214969
- ISBN
- 9780823214969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.28
€ 36.99
€ 33.28
Paperback. This book examines the work of writers and journalists from a range of European countries who used the medium of travel writing to articulate perceptions of their own and other cultures, and gives a comprehensive account of the complex intellectual climate of the 1930's. Editor(s): Burdett, Charles; Duncan, Derek. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: 13ill. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571815019
- ISBN
- 9781571815019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.21
€ 44.21
Hardcover. Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's multifarious interests. This edition contains his complete poetical works. It is intended for historians, editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. The textual information also reveals changes in such areas as linguistic and grammatical usage. Editor(s): Mays, J. C. C. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 1528 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 91. Weight in Grams: 2028.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 1528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691004846
- ISBN
- 9780691004846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 355.58€ 269.00
€ 355.58
€ 269.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312246
- ISBN
- 9780822312246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635293
- ISBN
- 9780691635293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.85
€ 212.85
Paperback. Examines the unstable dialectic of reality and imagination, as well as of history and literature Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780823234295
- ISBN
- 9780823234295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.21
€ 51.99
€ 46.21
Hardback. Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both writers' works, What Else But Love? considers the legacy of slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and mothers to the question of black manhood. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102766
- ISBN
- 9780231102766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.04
€ 131.04
Hardback. This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media. Editor(s): Ferris, David S. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 507.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725699
- ISBN
- 9780804725699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.89
€ 133.89
Paperback. Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411123
- ISBN
- 9780815411123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.75
€ 20.75
Paperback. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion. Editor(s): Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894619
- ISBN
- 9780801894619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.69
€ 37.99
€ 31.69
Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520223202
- ISBN
- 9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74€ 51.53
€ 66.74
€ 51.53
Hardback. Tracing the canonization through translation of The Tale of Genji from the 1830s to the 1950s, Michael Emmerich rewrites the early modern and modern history of the work, illuminating the intricate process by which it came to be recognized as a classic of both Japanese and world literature. Num Pages: 512 pages, 129. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162722
- ISBN
- 9780231162722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.53€ 80.95
€ 105.53
€ 80.95
Paperback. Questing the educational suitability of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the classroom, this work argues that the book teaches misguided lessons about race relations. It aims to challenge the typical understanding of "Huck Finn", and guides readers through an analysis that demonstrates how racism functions in the book and the classroom. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSL3; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 174 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742545205
- ISBN
- 9780742545205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.52
€ 49.52