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Hardback. Modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness of purpose. In this study, Joel R. Cohn analyzes works by three writers whose works constitute an assault on the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674847118
- ISBN
- 9780674847118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.05
€ 46.99
€ 39.05
Paperback. Provides the study of the novels of James Kelman, Scotland's influential contemporary prose artist and 1994 Booker Prize winner. This title offers readings of Kelman's style, characterisation and linguistic innovations within the diverse contexts of Scottish socialism, 'Booker Prize' culture and Glasgow's 'City of Culture' status in 1990. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070976
- ISBN
- 9780719070976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.09
€ 32.09
Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410299
- ISBN
- 9781572410299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.87
€ 36.99
€ 26.87
Paperback. Obscure Invitations argues that the apparent instances of "the death of the Author" in twentieth-century literature are in fact carefully staged performances that ultimately affirm authorial vitality and control of both text and reader. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773232
- ISBN
- 9780804773232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.75
€ 29.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DS; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347414
- ISBN
- 9781349347414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.03
€ 63.03
hardcover. The eleven essays of Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernandez Cubas examine the intellectual preoccupations, narrative strategies, and rhetorical devices that distinguish the four volumes of short stories, two novels, the play, and the book of memoirs that Cristina Fernandez Cubas has published to date. Editor(s): Glenn, Kathleen M.; Perez, Janet. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492712
- ISBN
- 9781611492712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.79
€ 114.79
paperback. Originally published in hardcover in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRH; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110472
- ISBN
- 9780230110472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, wear to cover and spine and yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Penguin London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0009730
- ISBN
- 9780140400281
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. This book surveys a large and rarely examined body of early modern poems, plays, and prose works written to commemorate Queen Elizabeth I. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104129
- ISBN
- 9780230104129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Natural Heritage Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896219325
- ISBN
- 9781896219325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.45
€ 11.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 4. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868199238
- ISBN
- 9780868199238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.71
€ 19.99
€ 14.71
Paperback. A collection of twenty-five essays which explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space. It examines the settings in which plays were acted; and juxtaposes the theater with such contemporary subcultures as the church, the city, and the court. Editor(s): Cox, John D.; Kastan, David Scott. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102438
- ISBN
- 9780231102438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.16€ 41.12
€ 52.16
€ 41.12
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691651811
- ISBN
- 9780691651811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.58€ 107.05
€ 142.58
€ 107.05
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292615
- ISBN
- 9781349292615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 378 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609614
- ISBN
- 9780691609614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.32
€ 75.32
Paperback. Traces the history of utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534842
- ISBN
- 9781557534842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.62
€ 57.62
Hardback. The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children's stories. This title provides a critical corrective by locating in Hyakken's simple yet powerful literary language. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031128
- ISBN
- 9780674031128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.09
€ 44.99
€ 37.09
Paperback. aeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. . Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631200932
- ISBN
- 9780631200932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.39
€ 58.39
paperback. Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Num Pages: 344 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300197204
- ISBN
- 9780300197204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.88
€ 19.99
€ 13.88
This remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a crack beneath a door, then a riot of sensuous intensity as you open up to the beauty that lies between the folds of words, bursts of poetic energy that casts warm light over all shadows. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550964769
- ISBN
- 9781550964769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.90
€ 19.99
€ 18.90
Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW with nicks and small tears. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1946
- Publisher
- Mercier
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0008539
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754146
- ISBN
- 9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.36
€ 114.36
Paperback. Clean copy with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KST0017356
- ISBN
- 9780552083058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 688 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HPQ; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038403
- ISBN
- 9780268038403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.97
€ 167.97