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Paperback. Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. This guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's texts. Series: Guides for the Perplexed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826495808
- ISBN
- 9780826495808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.49
€ 25.49
Paperback. Editor(s): Irvine, Dean; Kamboureli, Smaro. Num Pages: 335 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771121118
- ISBN
- 9781771121118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 36.62
€ 45.99
€ 36.62
Hardcover. Since Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the Absurd' to describe experimental drama in the mid-twentieth century, the term 'absurd' has been adopted as a means of discussing a vast array of literary text. This title examines a range of literary texts, both prose and poetry. It covers classic and contemporary absurdist texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669264
- ISBN
- 9780748669264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649764
- ISBN
- 9780691649764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.77
€ 145.77
Paperback. Series: Methuen Drama Engage. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 bw illus. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472580214
- ISBN
- 9781472580214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.55
€ 30.99
€ 30.55
Hardcover. Focusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748682850
- ISBN
- 9780748682850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.56
€ 101.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 395 pages, 1facsim,1port. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. .
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 395
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0228306
- ISBN
- 9780821409602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight: 408.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669912
- ISBN
- 9780748669912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.56
€ 101.56
Hardback. This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Editor(s): Einhaus, Ann-Marie; Baxter, Katherine Isobel. Series: Edinburgh Companion to Literature. Num Pages: 512 pages, 36 black and white, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD; DSBH; DSR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401630
- ISBN
- 9781474401630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.01
€ 195.01
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631851
- ISBN
- 9780691631851
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.57
€ 145.57
Paperback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167831
- ISBN
- 9780691167831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
€ 45.99
€ 32.25
Hardback. Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635774
- ISBN
- 9780691635774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26
€ 117.26
Hardback. The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book's decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society. Editor(s): Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair. Series: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Num Pages: 544 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 252 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618293
- ISBN
- 9780748618293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.49
€ 194.49
Hardback. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421346
- ISBN
- 9781421421346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.45
€ 54.99
€ 45.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Corke, H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648033
- ISBN
- 9780691648033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.08
€ 169.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; 3JJ; 3JMG; DSA; DSBH; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776749477
- ISBN
- 9788776749477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.36
€ 36.99
€ 26.36
Hardcover. Margaret Scott's two-volume edition of the Notebooks published in 1997 is a remarkable achievement. This edition remaps all the entries in the Notebooks not used in the Collected Fiction volumes, and presents the material in chronological order. This edition provides a fascinating, chronological account of Mansfield's life, as she wrote it. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Davison, Claire. Series: Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748685059
- ISBN
- 9780748685059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.86
€ 221.86
Hardcover. The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present essay. Colum McCann's work is studied here as a mosaic of references to and quotations from other texts. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782052241
- ISBN
- 9781782052241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Paperback. Newly available in paperback, this study places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748642847
- ISBN
- 9780748642847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.49
€ 30.49
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066960
- ISBN
- 9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.70
€ 30.99
€ 25.70
Paperback. A major new study of Africa's most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe's work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526116796
- ISBN
- 9781526116796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.66
€ 32.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Findlay, Alison; Markidou, Vassiliki. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474244251
- ISBN
- 9781474244251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.98
€ 124.98
Hardcover. An introduction to the major forms of autobiographical writing in America and important developments in autobiography studies that discusses both 'canonised' texts and those from contemporary writers. It includes study of the Puritan autobiography, the slave narrative, political texts, photography in autobiography, and illness/ disability memoirs. Series Editor(s): Newman, Simon P.; Smith, Carol R. Series: British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Paperbacks. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748644612
- ISBN
- 9780748644612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.56
€ 101.56
Hardback. Editor(s): Turner, Lynn (Emerson College); Sellbach, Undine; Broglio, Ron. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418416
- ISBN
- 9781474418416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.01
€ 195.01