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Paperback. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454. Series: Reading the Novel. 312 pages, 0. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight: 454.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226222
ISBN
9780631226222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.13

Hardcover. Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226215
ISBN
9780631226215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.46

Hardback. What happens when we read imaginative literature? What do we learn from reading such texts? Reading complements our experience, sharpens our perceptions, gives us insight into how other humans live, enables us to understand other cultures and periods, and gives us aesthetic pleasure. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405130981
ISBN
9781405130981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.12

Paperback. Shakespeare's plays have inspired British Oscar-winners and spaghetti Westerns, Bollywood thrillers, and Soviet epics. Covering twenty plays, this work spans a century of cinema, from a silent "Tempest" (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It" (2006). Series: Screen Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844571703
ISBN
9781844571703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Checkmark Books
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816078608
ISBN
9780816078608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.15

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138961265
ISBN
9781138961265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.33

Paperback. Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Kline, Daniel T. A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Continuum
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826494092
ISBN
9780826494092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.95

Paperback. Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds the reader of a poem differ from, say, the slang or patois that captivates listeners of hip-hop? This book examines the shared incomprehensibilities of poetry and slang. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226803104
ISBN
9780226803104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416984
ISBN
9781421416984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.42

Paperback. "Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268042370
ISBN
9780268042370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. Presents a collection of three "Turk" plays namely "Selimus, Emperor of the Turks"; "A Christian Turned Turk"; and "The Renegado". It represents Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. It is useful for understanding the English identity. Editor(s): Vitkus, Daniel J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illus; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110297
ISBN
9780231110297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780994031
ISBN
9781780994031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Hardcover. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation. Editor(s): Schaub, Danielle. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 285 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644596
ISBN
9780888644596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 50.26

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duquesne
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820704975
ISBN
9780820704975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.47
€ 62.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Archard, Cary. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854115072
ISBN
9781854115072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.96

paperback. An anthology of literary criticism of Appalachian novelists, poets, and playwrights. It reprises critical writing of influential authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Cratis Williams, and Jim Wayne Miller. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 712. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821415900
ISBN
9780821415900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.94

paperback. Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment. Editor(s): Musa, Mark. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 428 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444421
ISBN
9780140444421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444438
ISBN
9780140444438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. It also includes extracts from a wealth of poems inspired by his work - including Spenser's Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Ezra Pound's Cantos and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140423884
ISBN
9780140423884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.36

Paperback. A classic translation with critical essays by leading scholars. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Series: Indiana Masterpiece Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
The Indiana Critical Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253209306
ISBN
9780253209306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.03

Paperback. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. Translator(s): Cary, H. F.; Griffith, Tom. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853267871
ISBN
9781853267871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.11

Paperback. This is the first English translation of "Il Fiore", the late 13th century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French "Roman de la Rose" and the "Detto d'Amore", a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. Editor(s): Casciani, Santa; Kleinhenz, Christopher. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268008932
ISBN
9780268008932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 58.73

Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 400 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
389
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019123
ISBN
9780691019123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.41

Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Number 1
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018966
ISBN
9780691018966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

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