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Paperback. Editor(s): Macedo, Lynne. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9789766402563
ISBN
9789766402563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.51

Hardback. This book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474416269
ISBN
9781474416269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.39
€ 99.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176093
ISBN
9780691176093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.87

Hardback. In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, ranging from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads contemporary narratives, particularly "transatlantic literature", as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces. Ultimately, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479211
ISBN
9781137479211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

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
€ 26.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Edmond-Paul, Mary. Num Pages: 327 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; BGLA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Otago University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781877578212
ISBN
9781877578212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.53

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

€ 29.99
€ 25.26

Paperback. Demonstrates, by a close analysis of Euripides' use of language and of imagery in particular, that his imaginative powers differ in kind, not just in quality, from those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and that they serve a different purpose in the structure of the plays. This third edition is suitable for students of Greek tragedy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Duckworth Publishers
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853997105
ISBN
9781853997105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.32

Hardback. This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267811
ISBN
9780823267811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.81

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

€ 204.92
€ 192.73

Hardback. Editor(s): Graham-Bertolini, Alison; Kayser, Casey. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319402918
ISBN
9783319402918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.61

Paperback. How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio - a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745661858
ISBN
9780745661858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.42

Hardback. This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639991
ISBN
9780748639991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.97
€ 78.97

Hardback. Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 240 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624665240
ISBN
9781624665240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.22
€ 49.38

Paperback. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479806997
ISBN
9781479806997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 535.
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472004
ISBN
9781611472004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.97

Paperback. Editor(s): Lloyd, Dr David (Independent Consultant). BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474415323
ISBN
9781474415323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.81

Hardback. In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with Asian racialization and capitalism, showing how the conflation of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United states with the abstract dimensions of capital became settler colonialism's defining feature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360797
ISBN
9780822360797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226435138
ISBN
9780226435138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 35.64

Hardback. This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748621736
ISBN
9780748621736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.37
€ 138.57

Paperback. A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts. The illuminating insights enhance our understanding of how language and other semiotic resources construe specific cultural and social concerns. Editor(s): Bowcher, Wendy L. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; DSA; GTC; GTE; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349321407
ISBN
9781349321407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.04

Hardback. This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus' work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Series: Erasmus Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; HPCB; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487500610
ISBN
9781487500610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.07

Paperback. Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, Black Theater: A Cultural Companion 1850 - Today will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. The book takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745634432
ISBN
9780745634432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.65

Paperback. A pre-eminent Orwell scholar's lifetime of work on the icon of modern literature Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 Map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077463
ISBN
9780252077463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.84

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