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Paperback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926711
- ISBN
- 9780813926711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.56
€ 36.99
€ 31.56
Hardback. Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the 'idle condition' from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century, to the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492361
- ISBN
- 9781611492361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.34
€ 112.34
Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves--either actual Europeans or Westernized natives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 29 images. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC; JHBT; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132108
- ISBN
- 9780810132108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.63
€ 51.99
€ 43.63
Hardback. Based on Emerson's holograph manuscripts and published sources: "Society and Solitude" and "The Conduct of Life", this book incorporates corrections and revisions he recorded in both sources, and restores for the reader the text he actually wrote. Editor(s): Bosco, Ronald A.; Wilson, Douglas Emory. Num Pages: 542 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026278
- ISBN
- 9780674026278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58€ 113.46
€ 127.58
€ 113.46
Paperback. BIC Classification: DSY. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349566235
- ISBN
- 9781349566235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Yair Mazor introduces English-speaking audiences to the poetry of Asher Reich, one of Israel's best contemporary poets. Dominated by themes of stormy sensuality, his dramatic imagery and metaphors interweave Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical references in a colourful, complex poetic texture. Num Pages: 144 pages, 15 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DCQ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299181543
- ISBN
- 9780299181543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.35
€ 24.99
€ 21.35
Paperback. Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Three. Num Pages: 28 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 50.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873388337
- ISBN
- 9780873388337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.21
€ 11.21
Hardback. Filíocht. an cludach rud beag caite. 72pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- "An Clóchomhar,"
- Edition
- An Chéad Chló
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTK0001747
- ISBN
- 9781906882297
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 26.99€ 12.00
€ 26.99
€ 12.00
Paperback. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823245291
- ISBN
- 9780823245291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.49
€ 36.99
€ 33.49
Paperback. A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333474006
- ISBN
- 9780333474006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.23
€ 27.23
Paperback. Translator(s): Azarov, Vladimir; Callaghan, Barry. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 109 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550963885
- ISBN
- 9781550963885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.06
€ 18.99
€ 17.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349164707
- ISBN
- 9781349164707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.46
€ 24.46
Paperback. The gripping story of one woman's odyssey into the Australian outback away from tragedy and towards regaining control over her life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002047
- ISBN
- 9780340579749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain. Editor(s): Whittaker, Graham. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688942
- ISBN
- 9780856688942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.22€ 122.94
€ 128.22
€ 122.94
Paperback. Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works. Editor(s): Knowles, Owen. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497379
- ISBN
- 9781349497379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.77
€ 63.77
Paperback. Series: Australian Literary Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing Australia
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781921867941
- ISBN
- 9781921867941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.14
€ 35.99
€ 26.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Altenburger, Roland; Wan, Margaret B.; Bdegreerdahl, Vibeke. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824839888
- ISBN
- 9780824839888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.60€ 66.16
€ 72.60
€ 66.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 971 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 971
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491630
- ISBN
- 9781611491630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.54
€ 235.54
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746311080
- ISBN
- 9780746311080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.63
€ 91.63
Hardcover. Series: Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: D; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241240274
- ISBN
- 9780241240274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.86
€ 25.99
€ 22.86
Paperback. The scripts of five David Hare plays. The settings include China, Vietnam in 1974/5, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad in the 1950s. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 38. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571178353
- ISBN
- 9780571178353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 13.23
€ 20.99
€ 13.23
Paperback. This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSY; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355754
- ISBN
- 9781349355754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- MerwinAsia United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937385477
- ISBN
- 9781937385477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.49€ 53.91
€ 58.49
€ 53.91