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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback.
Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715634769
ISBN
9780715634769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

Hardback. Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry contains 17 studies on Greek Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic poetry by leading international academics drawn from the last three decades, 3 of which are translated here for the first time. Ian Rutherford has written an introduction surveying the scholarship in the field. Editor(s): Rutherford, Ian. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199216192
ISBN
9780199216192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.92

Hardcover. This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007557219
ISBN
9780007557219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Taking a view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this work explores how institutions, individuals, and coalitions contribute to the often surprising twists and turns of distributive politics. It identifies a variety of psychological and institutional factors that influence distributive outcomes. Editor(s): Shapiro, Ian; Swenson, Peter A.; Donno Panayides, Daniela. Num Pages: 365 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JPA; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740590
ISBN
9780814740590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Paperback. For the first time in paperback, the only annotated edition of Edwin Abbott's classic mind-bending tale of an alternate, two-dimensional universe presented side-by-side with mathematician Ian Stewart's revealing commentary and analysis. Num Pages: 272 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 190 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465011230
ISBN
9780465011230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.29

Hardback. By analysing relevant statues alongside the literature of the time, Ian Ward investigates Victorian anxieties about the 'condition' of its women, concentrating in particular on four 'crimes': adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849462945
ISBN
9781849462945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.90
€ 70.00

Paperback. In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. This book explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the emergence of the middle-class and more. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847923851
ISBN
9781847923851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers.
* Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium.
* Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1076.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444334142
ISBN
9781444334142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763504935
ISBN
9788763504935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.51

Paperback. Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324157
ISBN
9780822324157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardcover. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180 220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280." Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
501
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848145
ISBN
9781603848145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.63
€ 72.60

Paperback. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180-220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280. Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
501
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848138
ISBN
9781603848138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.47

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers" - a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is to Western culture - also relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841955
ISBN
9781603841955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.22
€ 42.22

Paperback. Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH5; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223231
ISBN
9780812223231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780393353426
ISBN
9780393353426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.55

Paperback. Traces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation. Num Pages: 206 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSK; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1 Reprint
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254558
ISBN
9780520254558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336437
ISBN
9780880336437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. This book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785204
ISBN
9780804785204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

hardcover. This book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804785198
ISBN
9780804785198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

Paperback. 'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 80 pages, glossary, further reading. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 4KHT; DSBH; DSK; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 5. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
York Press
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582314559
ISBN
9780582314559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.31

Hardback. Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. This work uses developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. It develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety of literary works. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 264 pages, 34 illustrations, 4 tables, 1 glossary. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803229778
ISBN
9780803229778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.56

Paperback. Editor(s): Grewal, Inderpal; Kaplan, Caren. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816621385
ISBN
9780816621385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. Introduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137867
ISBN
9780231137867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 80.00

Paperback. A collection of stories that focus on female subjectivity. It features stories such as: "The Nocturnal Butterflies"; "Shadows in the Shadows"; and, "The Shunammite". Translator(s): Steele, Cynthia. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259270
ISBN
9780803259270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.45

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