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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Translator(s): Calichman, Richard. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231163866
ISBN
9780231163866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.89

Hardback. More than 30 new essays from an international cast of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid's literary oeuvre. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 534 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 173 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405141833
ISBN
9781405141833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 261.19

Hardback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474262101
ISBN
9781474262101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 67.12

Hardcover. Num Pages: 297 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776747053
ISBN
9788776747053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Hardcover. A biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. Series: Literary Traveller. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 116 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906598884
ISBN
9781906598884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Hardcover. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DCF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772894430
ISBN
9788772894430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.74

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714529394
ISBN
9780714529394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Series: Physica-Lehrbuch. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Physica-Verlag HD
Condition
New
SKU
V9783790810004
ISBN
9783790810004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.02

Paperback. Features various entries that illuminate Jane Austen's world. This book offers alphabetically arranged entries providing historical details on the form and function of everyday and obscure objects that are mentioned in her novels. It also includes a selection of illustrations accompanying the entries that help bring her fiction to life. Series: All Things. Num Pages: 400 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Edition
abridged ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846450525
ISBN
9781846450525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.33

Hardback. This casebook probes the many layers of meaning in Golding's "Lord of the Flies". It examines its literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and religious significance, integrating primary and secondary documents, with extracts from texts as diverse as the Bible and war crimes interviews. Series: The Greenwood Press Literature in Context. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 501.
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313307232
ISBN
9780313307232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.23
€ 37.89

This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HRCL; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199644506
ISBN
9780199644506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.82

Paperback. This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama "modern". Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199658770
ISBN
9780199658770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Hardback. Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of "Tempered Modernism," an international phenomenon exemplified by Akhmatova, Rilke, H.D., and Williams, and characterized by small poems written with precision, restraint, simplicity, equilibrium, and hardness. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750752
ISBN
9780804750752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.09

Paperback. Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349547654
ISBN
9781349547654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DSGS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897936
ISBN
9788772897936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.09
€ 40.41

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 33. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164702
ISBN
9780231164702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 51.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411791
ISBN
9781572411791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles' extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. Editor(s): Ormand, Kirk. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 176 x 33. Weight in Grams: 942.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119025535
ISBN
9781119025535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 50.93

Hardback. A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. Editor(s): Ormand, Kirk. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 618 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
618
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405187268
ISBN
9781405187268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 209.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631585
ISBN
9780691631585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.06

Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
564
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725590
ISBN
9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 53.17

hardcover. Centered around the figures of Hu Feng, a leftist literary theorist who promoted "subjectivism," and his disciple Lu Ling, known for his psychological fiction, this study explores theoretical and fictional responses to the problematic of self at the heart of the experience of modernity in 20th-century China. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731287
ISBN
9780804731287
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.07

hardcover. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 979.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
572
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725583
ISBN
9780804725583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231170093
ISBN
9780231170093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

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