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Hardback. Offers several models of correct political behavior for the benefit of both Otto and the noblemen who constituted his base of power. In her stories and plays, the author demonstrates God's inexhaustible love and the infinite resources of forgiveness and reconciliation that are offered to even the most flagrant sinner, provided that person repents. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911007
ISBN
9781575911007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.66

Paperback. A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Editor(s): Hart, Stephen M.; Ouyang, Wen-chin. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. 304 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hart, Stephen M.; Ouyang, Wen-chin. A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight: 470.
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662131
ISBN
9781855662131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 34.76

Hardcover. Offers an introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century onwards. This work shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855661479
ISBN
9781855661479
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.68

Paperback. 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrel performance and early race films. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations, bibliog references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044347
ISBN
9780226044347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.21

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662537
ISBN
9781855662537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.27

Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936666
ISBN
9780813936666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.87

hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936659
ISBN
9780813936659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.87

Hardcover. Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857283306
ISBN
9780857283306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781623562007
ISBN
9781623562007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.51

Hardback. This broad-ranging survey considers the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western (in literature, film and history) and America in the 20th century Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748621408
ISBN
9780748621408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.59
€ 123.67

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415229357
ISBN
9780415229357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. This new book by Stephen Morton provides an ideal introduction to the work of Gayatri Spivak, a complex and increasingly important contemporary thinker in the contested field of post colonial studies. It provides an in-depth analysis of Spivak's relationship to postcolonialism, feminism, Marxism, and subaltern studies. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745632858
ISBN
9780745632858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.76

Paperback. This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques used by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Case studies examined include Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381144
ISBN
9781781381144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.42

Paperback. Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relations among reason, language, and the imagination, as well as more specific ethical issues concerning the moral status of animals, the meaning of mortality, the nature of evil, and the demands of religion. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691137377
ISBN
9780691137377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.02
€ 42.47

Hardback. This book examines the ways six contemporary American novels (October Light; American Psycho; Vineland; Et Tu, Babe; In Country; and White Noise) formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed to be all but unassailable. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460544
ISBN
9781611460544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.66

Paperback. This new collection of essays explores the synamic responses to Shakespeare by Irish writers, in both English and Irish, since the early twentieth century.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906359393
ISBN
9781906359393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.95

Hardcover. The Reader in the Book examines the history, archaeology, and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces in early modern books to shed light on reading practices, how books were read, and what early modern readerse wanted texts to tell them. Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives. Num Pages: 192 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 209 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198737568
ISBN
9780198737568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.95

paperback. Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 line drawings, 75 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415912136
ISBN
9780415912136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40

Hardcover. Adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the 1st Century BC and the 3rd Century AD. This book examines extant material from this period synchronically with some poems attached to authors and some not. It argues that this was 'one poetry,' created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 684.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021365
ISBN
9780674021365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.06

Paperback. The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and traces of the past had a singular aura. This book presents the literary history of the Tang. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033283
ISBN
9780674033283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726672
ISBN
9780804726672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

hardcover. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804726665
ISBN
9780804726665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.40

Paperback. An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. Editor(s): Parkinson, Stephen; Alonso, Claudia Pazos; Earle, T. F. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662674
ISBN
9781855662674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognised as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to criticism and original studies of individual texts. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223622
ISBN
9780230223622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.89
€ 57.79

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