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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 color, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273355
- ISBN
- 9780823273355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.15
€ 103.15
Paperback. This new edition updates the bibliography and the new preface by Hughes presents his recent thoughts about terminology and methods of liturgical abbreviation. Num Pages: 470 pages, music, facsims. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCR; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 173 x 32. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802076694
- ISBN
- 9780802076694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.92€ 50.58
€ 50.92
€ 50.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Connell, Jolyon. BIC Classification: 4KLR; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. .
- Publisher
- Connell Guides
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907776663
- ISBN
- 9781907776663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.15
€ 9.99
€ 9.15
paperback. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 768 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSK; U. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099116417
- ISBN
- 9780099116417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.44
€ 19.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121468
- ISBN
- 9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.61
€ 46.99
€ 33.61
Paperback. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726979
- ISBN
- 9780804726979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardcover. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721172
- ISBN
- 9780804721172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Hardcover. Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence s life, work, and legacy. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470654781
- ISBN
- 9780470654781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.43
€ 90.43
Paperback. This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth-- and early seventeenth--century English literature. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220244
- ISBN
- 9780631220244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.32
€ 61.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. 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
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609928
- ISBN
- 9780691609928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780691628202
- ISBN
- 9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.36€ 70.87
€ 92.36
€ 70.87
Paperback. Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120256
- ISBN
- 9780691120256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.46
€ 53.29
€ 42.46
Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138145
- ISBN
- 9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.97€ 59.46
€ 76.97
€ 59.46
Paperback. Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210271
- ISBN
- 9780520210271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773621
- ISBN
- 9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231107532
- ISBN
- 9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190262
- ISBN
- 9781845190262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.16
€ 130.16
Paperback. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826436962
- ISBN
- 9780826436962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.94
€ 33.99
€ 28.94
Hardback. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847922458
- ISBN
- 9781847922458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 4.99
€ 24.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 80 illustrations (b/w) with possible 16 page colour section. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781256343
- ISBN
- 9781781256343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. 155 pages. The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth is a didactic poem in Anglo-Norman which surveys a host of practical matters, ranging from childbirth and our passage through life, to estate management and life in fields, workshops, to activities in the home, the kitchen and the dining-hall, to the flora and fauna (and even the weather) of .. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSC; HBTB; JFCV. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 13. Weight: 232. Translator(s): Dalby, Andrew.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903018866
- ISBN
- 9781903018866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.73
€ 26.99
€ 23.73
Hardback. Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative and picturesque analysis of the Romans' extraordinary desire for food and wine and how this quest for the luxurious is woven into the literature, art, language and culture. Num Pages: 346 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AB; 3D; ACG; CFF; DSBB; JFC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 725.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415186247
- ISBN
- 9780415186247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.86€ 141.36
€ 159.86
€ 141.36
Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346524
- ISBN
- 9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780822346449
- ISBN
- 9780822346449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51