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Literature: history & criticism

paperback. Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notion of the city as both instituted social space and imaginary community. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2009
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349376889
ISBN
9781349376889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early 19th century homosexual culture and the prejudice against it, the author shows how Blake's hatred of hypocrisy and repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him to accept homosexuality as an integral part of sexuality. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312234515
ISBN
9780312234515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.84

Paperback. "Blake and Homosexuality" studies William Blake's developing sympathy with male and female homosexuality in a period of public hatred and victimization. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349630219
ISBN
9781349630219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Paperback. Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes of visual memory, implicit knowledge, and mnemonic formats in order to better understand descriptive and ekphrastic passages. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
566
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067110
ISBN
9780674067110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.26

Hardback. Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844464
ISBN
9781843844464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.32

Hardback. Editor(s): Duffy, Cian. Num Pages: 265 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319512457
ISBN
9783319512457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.72

Hardcover. The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137332172
ISBN
9781137332172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.59

Hardcover. In this volume, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333915608
ISBN
9780333915608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349423156
ISBN
9781349423156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.36

Hardback. Presents essays that reflect the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. This book opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics that provides an overview of the whole period. It surveys the variety of styles in Victorian poetry and focuses on the means of its production and distribution. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard; Harrison, Antony H.; Chapman, Alison. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 176 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1256.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631222071
ISBN
9780631222071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 211.06

Paperback. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard; Harrison, Antony H.; Chapman, Alison. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 256 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405176125
ISBN
9781405176125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.96

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.Signed and inscribed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KEX0280943
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Examines the author's troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. It deals with the task he has undertaken to give voice to the voiceless: to express the unnerving pent-up emotions he was unable to express as a child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJP; BGA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
9780853239475
ISBN
9780853239475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Sharples, R. W. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856684760
ISBN
9780856684760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
SKU
V9780856682513
ISBN
9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinstein, Cindy; Looby, Christopher. Num Pages: 440 pages, B&W Illus.: ,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156172
ISBN
9780231156172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Hardback. The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's reputation and readership is addressed through essays that also provide an overview of Lessing's career from "The Grass is Singing", the first of a series of African and woman-centred politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically radical works. Editor(s): Sprague, Claire. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333492925
ISBN
9780333492925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.39

Paperback. Editor(s): Sprague, Claire. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349207565
ISBN
9781349207565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 179.50

Hardcover. Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109841
ISBN
9780230109841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.26

Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292356
ISBN
9781349292356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

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