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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 234 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 234 pages, 3 b/w illus. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight: 388.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521279581
- ISBN
- 9780521279581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.29
€ 38.29
Paperback. Janet Todd is one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers. The author discusses women and issues of gender from the Restoration to Romanticism. She examines the complex connections between art and life as revealed by women authors. The author's previous books have sold well. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745610559
- ISBN
- 9780745610559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.68
€ 24.68
Paperback. An accessible 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, including full chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 274. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. 176 pages, 1 b/w illus. An accessible 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies, including full chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSGS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 9. Weight: 292.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521674928
- ISBN
- 9780521674928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.35
€ 28.35
This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays. Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199593163
- ISBN
- 9780199593163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535576
- ISBN
- 9781349535576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639351
- ISBN
- 9780838639351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.41
€ 112.41
Paperback. This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writer's work. Num Pages: 334 pages, 48, 48 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411910
- ISBN
- 9781421411910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.83
€ 33.99
€ 28.83
hardcover. What does it mean when a man writes in the voice of a woman? Haswell finds Yeats's answer in his theory of the creative self as bisexual that arose from his experiment in automatic writing. Num Pages: 177 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780875802220
- ISBN
- 9780875802220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.39
€ 42.39
Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire
Janiszewski, Pawel; Stebnicka, Krystyna; Szab...
Hardback. This volume - the first project of its kind in the field - collates c. 1200 biographical entries on Greek sophists and rhetors who flourished in the Roman Empire from the first to the seventh century AD. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 195 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198713401
- ISBN
- 9780198713401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 347.03
€ 347.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138941496
- ISBN
- 9781138941496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.78
€ 49.78
Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072069
- ISBN
- 9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.43€ 90.47
€ 118.43
€ 90.47
Hardback. In 1969, Dr Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field. The result was a collection of videos, "Profiles in Literature". This text summarizes and quotes from the interviews in the video series and also expands/updates guest's background data. Num Pages: 416 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810837874
- ISBN
- 9780810837874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.17
€ 141.17
Paperback. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KRS0017712
- ISBN
- 9780801865381
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041519
- ISBN
- 9780268041519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.07
€ 35.99
€ 33.07
paperback. Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, this book attempts to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773360
- ISBN
- 9780226773360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
paperback. Against a background of independence from France, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine how Francophone novelists from the Maghreb imagined a diverse nation peopled by those excluded by the dominant political discourses, especially those breaching traditional sexual norms. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 2ADF; 5S; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226321066
- ISBN
- 9780226321066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107691056
- ISBN
- 9781107691056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.63
€ 33.63
Hardback. Argues for the connection between British poet and painter William Blake's marginalia and the role that often multivalent symbols like pens, writers, readers, and books played in his art. This book shows that the marginalia represent important evidence of Blake-as-reader experiencing the typographical features of books. Num Pages: 213 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911090
- ISBN
- 9781575911090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.47
€ 115.47
hardcover. The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099846
- ISBN
- 9780802099846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.74
€ 71.74
Hardcover. Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Skelton's The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 277 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198788041
- ISBN
- 9780198788041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.79
€ 128.79
Hardback. Paying close attention to the historical contours of Romantic and Victorian meters, as well as to the minute workings of the verse line, this book presents a perspective on a subject that figured significantly in the century's literature, and in its culture. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419687
- ISBN
- 9780821419687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319535012
- ISBN
- 9783319535012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.90
€ 113.90
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909775
- ISBN
- 9781439909775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. Provides an annotated guide to the wealth of biographical sources focusing on the life of Mark Twain. Num Pages: 144 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810836303
- ISBN
- 9780810836303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.98
€ 110.98