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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It also places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A L Kennedy in new contexts. Editor(s): Norquay, Glenda. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 240 pages. Editor(s): Norquay, Glenda. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It also places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A L Kennedy in new contexts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 12. Weight: 334.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644315
ISBN
9780748644315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.42

Paperback. Homeric Durability investigates the concepts of time and decay in the Iliad. Through a framework informed by phenomenology and psychology, Lorenzo Garcia argues that, in moments of pain and sorrow, the Homeric gods are themselves defined by human temporal experience, and so the epic tradition cannot but imagine its own eventual disintegration. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 425 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
425
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073234
ISBN
9780674073234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.08

Paperback. This introduction to the core areas of English Literature is combined with a helpful study skills guide. It provides students with the knowledge and essential skills to communicate effectively and participate fully in their degree course. Series: Get Set for University. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615377
ISBN
9780748615377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Considers Greek and Roman literature primarily in relation to genre and theme. This series also aims to place writer and original addressee in their social context. It is suitable for both scholar and student, and to anyone interested in our classical inheritance. Editor(s): Taylor, David. Series: Classical Literature and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Duckworth Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715636862
ISBN
9780715636862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.24

Hardback. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media. Num Pages: 284 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APF; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785335693
ISBN
9781785335693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Michel, Paulette; Dupuis, Michel. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Dangaroo Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871049619
ISBN
9781871049619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.84

Hardcover. Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Brauner, David; Staehler, Axel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 252 x 34. Weight in Grams: 994.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646159
ISBN
9780748646159
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.06
€ 192.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198220
ISBN
9781845198220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.99

Hardback. This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of identity. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625260
ISBN
9780748625260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.46
€ 111.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Rose, C.; Robertson, E. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 462 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st ed. 2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349631162
ISBN
9781349631162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.13

Hardback. Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474236980
ISBN
9781474236980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.46
€ 92.90

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635965
ISBN
9780691635965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636191
ISBN
9780691636191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.65

Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996403
ISBN
9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.99

Hardback. A study of Irish advertising's cultural, literary and ideological resonance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298736
ISBN
9780230298736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.71

Hardback. Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture. Editor(s): Peeren, Esther; Blanco, Maria del Pilar. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HRQX; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441163691
ISBN
9781441163691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.25
€ 105.42

Paperback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137515
ISBN
9780231137515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Wall, Eamonn. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
9781851320448
ISBN
9781851320448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 15.00

Hardback. Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation. Editor(s): Balkun, Mary McAleer; Imbarrato, Susan Clair. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559906
ISBN
9781137559906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.19

Paperback. Character Studies. Series: Character Studies. 160 pages. Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This series demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts' themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight: 194.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826493460
ISBN
9780826493460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.17

Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474400657
ISBN
9781474400657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.17
€ 192.10

Hardcover. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. the Making of the English Epyllion. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 232 pages. Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight: 500.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644650
ISBN
9780748644650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.91
€ 100.33

Paperback. The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play. First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617463
ISBN
9780748617463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. This bilingual edition features the translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety. Editor(s): Baker, Deborah Lesko. Translator(s): Finch, Annie. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Bilingual edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226467153
ISBN
9780226467153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.65

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