Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Editor(s): Arac, Jonathan; Ritvo, Harriet. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822316121
- ISBN
- 9780822316121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.23
€ 30.99
€ 29.23
Paperback. Orients the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. This title includes a browsable index, bibliography, and maps. Translator(s): Relihan, Joel C. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208872
- ISBN
- 9780872208872
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.98
€ 19.99
€ 15.98
Paperback. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Editor(s): Kenney, E. J. Translator(s): Kenney, E. J. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435900
- ISBN
- 9780140435900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.76
€ 14.99
€ 13.76
Hardcover. Apuleius (born ca. 125 AD), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. This edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, contains Apuleius' other surviving works that are considered genuine. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 16 x 10. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674997110
- ISBN
- 9780674997110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.33
€ 33.99
€ 30.33
hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823233557
- ISBN
- 9780823233557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.33
€ 59.33
Hardcover. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248137
- ISBN
- 9780230248137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardback. This study focuses on 18th-century fiction written by women to demonstrate how authors implicitly examined and resisted patrilineal models, including notions of literary tradition and of women's place in the domestic sphere. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 593.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726603
- ISBN
- 9780804726603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.55
€ 98.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Richardson, John. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687204
- ISBN
- 9780856687204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Paperback. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary. Translator(s): Athanassakis, Apostolos N.; Wolkow, Benjamin M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408828
- ISBN
- 9781421408828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.72
€ 34.72
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107636750
- ISBN
- 9781107636750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.09
€ 37.09
Hardcover. Drawing on the preceding literary traditions of epic, lyric, and tragedy, this book creates a complex narrative that includes geography, religion, ethnography, mythology, adventure, exploration, human psychology, and the coming of age and love affair of Jason and Medea. Editor(s): Race, William H. Translator(s): Race, William H. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 118 x 30. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996304
- ISBN
- 9780674996304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.15
€ 33.99
€ 30.15
Paperback. A retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, one of the oldest extant Greek myth. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 474 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 686. 474 pages, 5 maps. A retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, one of the oldest extant Greek myth. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DCF; DN; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight: 686.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 474
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253933
- ISBN
- 9780520253933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.49
€ 35.99
€ 31.49
Paperback. Contains the English translations of Apollodorus' "Library" and Hyginus' "Fabulae" - the two important surviving 'handbooks' of classical mythography. This work discusses the issues of authorship, aim, and influence. It also includes an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M.; Smith, R. Scott. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208209
- ISBN
- 9780872208209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.69
€ 24.99
€ 18.69
Hardcover. This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105461
- ISBN
- 9780230105461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England, and The Rover, her most popular play, is set in Naples during the misrule of carnival time. The Rover explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion. Editor(s): Bolam, Robyn. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408152119
- ISBN
- 9781408152119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.19
€ 13.99
€ 13.19
Paperback. Editor(s): Roden, Frederick S., AOJN. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403921482
- ISBN
- 9781403921482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.27
€ 119.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969255
- ISBN
- 9781403969255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardback. An examination of drunkenness and the writer in the Romantic age. Areas of focus include: Wordsworth's poems and essays on the drunken career of Robert Burns; Charles Lamb's essays and letters; and Coleridge's drinking songs and essays about drunkenness. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSG; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333725214
- ISBN
- 9780333725214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Paperback. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346790
- ISBN
- 9781349346790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 2AB; 2BM; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354982
- ISBN
- 9780230354982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43