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Hardback. This book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry--and of minority poetry--and for rethinking how we read American poetry in general. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783651
- ISBN
- 9780804783651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Hardback. Highlights references to nineteenth-century US slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen. In this book, each text explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823231478
- ISBN
- 9780823231478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.16
€ 60.16
Hardcover. This 1982 collection examines Ireland's relations with the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. Editor(s): Whitelock, Dorothy; McKitterick, Rosamond; Dumville, David. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 791. Nice clean copy in dustjacket. Scarce
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8038956
- ISBN
- 9780521235471
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Hardback. Series: Religion and American Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HRCC9; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151061
- ISBN
- 9780231151061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.35€ 57.11
€ 73.35
€ 57.11
Hardback. Anderson's carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin's performance. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; DSBD; DSK; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405230
- ISBN
- 9781421405230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 54.57
€ 59.15
€ 54.57
Hardback. Anderson offers fresh literary and historical accounts of Bradford's accomplishment, exploring the context and the form in which the author intended his book to be read. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSK; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801870743
- ISBN
- 9780801870743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.83€ 49.99
€ 53.83
€ 49.99
Paperback. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a Douglas Dunn's anthology of poetry. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 36. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228386
- ISBN
- 9780571228386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.09
€ 23.99
€ 16.09
Paperback. Homeric figure Nestor has a special relation to Ionia, where the Homeric poems were composed, and through Ionia to early Athens. The relationship between the Ionian city of Miletus and early Athens is particularly important. This book covers the role of these cities, and the location of Nestor's city Pylos. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 600 pages, 17 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674032903
- ISBN
- 9780674032903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.96
€ 40.99
€ 33.96
Paperback. This volume of RIM focuses on the inscriptions of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a city made famous by archaeological excavations of its spectacular burial sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; DB; DSB; HBLA1; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442623767
- ISBN
- 9781442623767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.09€ 88.28
€ 91.09
€ 88.28
Paperback. This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. Editor(s): Gifford, Douglas; Dickson, Beth; MacGillivray, Allan; Dunnigan, Sarah. Series: Scottish Language and Literature. Num Pages: 1248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1858.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 1248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748608256
- ISBN
- 9780748608256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 44.14
€ 48.99
€ 44.14
Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays from various periods of the author's distinguished career and by fellow academics writing in response to his work, which represents a novel dialogic form of literary criticism. In his essays ranging from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to the "Canon", he offers nuanced and informed readings of his chosen texts. Editor(s): Clare, Janet; O'Mara, Veronica. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558477
- ISBN
- 9781904558477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.13
€ 45.99
€ 38.13
paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856762727
- ISBN
- 9780856762727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.46
€ 14.46
paperback. Num Pages: 447 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816633647
- ISBN
- 9780816633647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
hardcover. Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour. But they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. This book provides students with a long needed accessible and essential introductory guide to the plays, focusing particularly on information about the Athens of the day. Num Pages: 376 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198721581
- ISBN
- 9780198721581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.92
€ 45.92
Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318610
- ISBN
- 9781846318610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.83
€ 44.99
€ 44.83
Paperback. In this biography, Douglas Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 456 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231349
- ISBN
- 9780631231349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.98
€ 58.98
Paperback. Douglas Mack argues that non-elite, 'subaltern' Scottish writers actively challenged the elite's Imperial Grand Narrative and demonstrates that Scottish fiction was active and influential both in shaping and in subverting the assumptions that underpinned the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1QDB; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618149
- ISBN
- 9780748618149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.31
€ 38.99
€ 35.31
Paperback. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 212 x 150 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780950262994
- ISBN
- 9780950262994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Paperback. Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined. Editor(s): Doyle, Laura; Winkiel, Laura. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217783
- ISBN
- 9780253217783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. It shows what happens to Shakespeare when he exists in and becomes popular music, in all its diverse and glorious forms. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AVGP; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441126986
- ISBN
- 9781441126986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.01
€ 38.99
€ 33.01
Hardback. Series: Historicizing Modernism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474278577
- ISBN
- 9781474278577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.79€ 137.06
€ 153.79
€ 137.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated in black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Halsgrove
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857042675
- ISBN
- 9780857042675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442884
- ISBN
- 9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54