Literature »
Literature: history & criticism
Literature: history & criticism
Results 169 - 192 of 4952
Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633367
- ISBN
- 9780691633367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.18
€ 177.18
Paperback. Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction of English history. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1FB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110150
- ISBN
- 9780231110150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.43
€ 36.99
€ 26.43
Paperback. This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624515
- ISBN
- 9780748624515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171241
- ISBN
- 9780691171241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1QDA; 3B; 3JMG; BM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007545131
- ISBN
- 9780007545131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.06
€ 14.99
€ 11.06
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism Drama and Performanc. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSG; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474424462
- ISBN
- 9781474424462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.02
€ 107.02
Hardcover. An exploration of African literary production in France and its socio-economic implications. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381953
- ISBN
- 9781781381953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.00
€ 136.00
Hardcover. Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art. Editor(s): Howatch, Susan; Johnson, Bruce; Huttar, Charles A. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910963
- ISBN
- 9781575910963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.37
€ 136.37
Hardcover. New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903153734
- ISBN
- 9781903153734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.54
€ 93.54
Paperback. Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, this title analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691037660
- ISBN
- 9780691037660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.62€ 40.56
€ 51.62
€ 40.56
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€ 29.47
€ 32.99
€ 29.47
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€ 21.78
€ 24.99
€ 21.78
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318467
- ISBN
- 9781846318467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
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. This volume, ninth in the Yale Research Series of Boswell's correspondence, contains more than 150 letters, verse epistles and other items. Editor(s): Hankins, David; Caudle, James J. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JF; BJ; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618057
- ISBN
- 9780748618057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.69
€ 161.69
Hardback. Editor(s): Kelvin, Norman. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632988
- ISBN
- 9780691632988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.54
€ 192.54
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. This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. Num Pages: 292 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611488128
- ISBN
- 9781611488128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.81€ 61.04
€ 97.81
€ 61.04
Paperback. Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. This book represents an examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055889
- ISBN
- 9780674055889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.70
€ 30.99
€ 25.70
Hardcover. The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205--184BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 115 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996823
- ISBN
- 9780674996823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.55
€ 32.99
€ 29.55
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648682
- ISBN
- 9780691648682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26
€ 117.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 460 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658. "Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994. Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-442) and index. Commissioning organisation: David Laskin. 460 p., [16] p. of plates ill., port.s 24 cm. Paperback. Fine clean copy, as new." Keywords: "Subjects - Biography - Artists, Architects & Photographers - Artists,Subjects - Biography - Artists, Architects & Photographers - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - G"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Number of pages
- 460
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KEX0161236
- ISBN
- 9780874517644
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. Opening with his impoverished childhood in Algiers, this biography presents the historical context, focusing on Camus' later agonising conflict between sympathy for the working class Algerians and for the French colonials with a stake in their adopted land. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099749110
- ISBN
- 9780099749110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.05
€ 21.99
€ 17.05
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441149879
- ISBN
- 9781441149879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.13
€ 135.13