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Paperback. Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania; The Open University/BBC; University of Pennsylvania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639939
ISBN
9780748639939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan "Brahman" (d c1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 394 pages, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FKA; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286467
ISBN
9780520286467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; DSB; HBTB; HBTQ; HPCD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270682
ISBN
9780823270682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

hardcover. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours. Editor(s): Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802091055
ISBN
9780802091055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813101682
ISBN
9780813101682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.32

Hardback. What is medieval religious drama, and what function does it serve in negotiating between the domains of theology and popular life? This book aims to answer these questions by studying three sets of these dramas from Germany, France, England, and Spain: 10th-century Easter plays, 12th-century Adam plays, and 15th- and 16th-century Passion plays. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737913
ISBN
9780804737913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.90

Hardcover. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BJ; DC; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Modern Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679642329
ISBN
9780679642329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.87

Paperback. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. A New Translation with Commentary. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 286 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Ben. A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DC; DSC. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight: 458. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135438
ISBN
9781571135438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.62

Paperback. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Editor(s): Vilain, Robert. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan; Sutherland, Marielle. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199569410
ISBN
9780199569410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.66

Hardback. From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, this text uncovers the strategies black writers used to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to a white audience. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231080941
ISBN
9780231080941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.20
€ 81.45

hardcover. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology / Townsend Lectures Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452079
ISBN
9780801452079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.10

She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406534
ISBN
9781421406534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.98

Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; APFA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469626161
ISBN
9781469626161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.22

Paperback. Editor(s): Radice, Katharine; Mayer, Roland. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; 4KL; DB; DSBB; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474265980
ISBN
9781474265980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.43

Paperback. In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by nineteenth-century authors in the rise of modernist aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 54 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199739233
ISBN
9780199739233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.48

Paperback. This is an accessible and comprehensive sign language textbook with an international frame of reference, designed for students and teachers in the global Deaf community. Based on years of experience teaching sign language and deaf studies at undergraduate, postgraduate and community levels, it grants readers access to a vibrant creative heritage. Num Pages: 280 pages, 55 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFZ; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137363817
ISBN
9781137363817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.72

Hardback. Offers a study of autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804753562
ISBN
9780804753562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.97

Hardback. This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.The wide range of texts discussed, include Primo Levi, W.G. Sebald, and Alasdair Gray. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617630
ISBN
9780748617630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.49
€ 118.01

Hardback. The figure and role of the late-medieval father is reappraised through a close reading of a range of documents from the period, including both letters and romances. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843580
ISBN
9781843843580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Paperback. An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the complex way in which they engaged with the dominant ideologies of the time. Num Pages: 254 pages, 3 B&W illustraions, 2 diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718893590
ISBN
9780718893590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.70

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
€ 37.29

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153904
ISBN
9780231153904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 71.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392. 320 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 19. Weight: 392.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153911
ISBN
9780231153911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.21

Paperback. Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen. Editor(s): Bromwich, Rachel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783163052
ISBN
9781783163052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.47

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