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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Greek & English
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856681721
ISBN
9780856681721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.17

Paperback. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682100
ISBN
9780856682100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 336 pages, references, commentary, notes, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687396
ISBN
9780856687396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.28

Paperback. Of the 1995 full-length edition:'Aristophanes addicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette 'The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts.. The volume will remain authoritative for generations. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Reprinted with revisions 1991.
SKU
V9780856682889
ISBN
9780856682889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprinted with corrections 2007. Reprinted 2015.
SKU
V9780856687082
ISBN
9780856687082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.17

Paperback. This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Editor(s): Halliwell, Stephen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780192824097
ISBN
9780192824097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 10.25

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 117 x 31. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996557
ISBN
9780674996557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed during the period of Aristotle's tutorship of Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander's tutors. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 line illustration, indexes. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Loeb Classical Library United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996564
ISBN
9780674996564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction. Translator(s): Kenny, Sir Anthony. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199608362
ISBN
9780199608362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 58.
Edition
New
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486295770
ISBN
9780486295770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.88

Paperback. Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Editor(s): Heath, Malcolm. Translator(s): Heath, Malcolm. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446364
ISBN
9780140446364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of the world's first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton's acclaimed translation. The text and explanatory and glossarial notes represent the work of the accomplished Hellenists James Hutton and Michelle Editor(s): Gorman, David; Zerba, Michelle. Translator(s): Hutton, James. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Critical
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393938869
ISBN
9780393938869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.43

Paperback. Here is a new translation, remarkable for its accuracy and refreshing clarity of exposition, of the first major work of literary criticism. Editor(s): Hutton, James. Translator(s): Hutton, James. Num Pages: 128 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393952162
ISBN
9780393952162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; JFCX; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226735542
ISBN
9780226735542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.62

Hardcover. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, the author mounts an argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating your belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories. Num Pages: 448 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226242965
ISBN
9780226242965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.78
€ 48.88

Hardcover. Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity's capacity for violence and cruelty. This title interprets his final works: the screenplay 'Saint Paul', the scenario for "Porn-Theo-Colossal", and the immense and unfinished novel "Petrolio". Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; APFB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226501345
ISBN
9780226501345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 55.38

Paperback. "Originally published as Preasens: Poetik eines Tempus, 2012 Diaphanes, Zurich" -- Verso title page. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628927641
ISBN
9781628927641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.01

Paperback. Traces the growth of ancient biography from the 5th century to the 1st century BC and includes the essay "Second Thoughts on Greek Biography". Momigliano clarifies the social and intellectual implications of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CJCW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674200418
ISBN
9780674200418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.82

Hardcover. Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. This title proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: "Faust". Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571133441
ISBN
9781571133441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Arnold Bennett's tale of murder, intrigue, and romance at a luxurious London hotel is now back in print in a Broadview Edition.

Editor(s): Saloman, Randi. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811885
ISBN
9781554811885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.81

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