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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? This collection of provocative pieces tells what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701796
- ISBN
- 9781784701796
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.63
€ 23.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: CFP; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905763047
- ISBN
- 9781905763047
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Condition: New
€ 51.23
€ 51.23
Paperback. From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846883910
- ISBN
- 9781846883910
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Hardback. The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 295
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276819
- ISBN
- 9780520276819
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.84
€ 54.99
€ 39.84
Paperback. In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting--edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627922
- ISBN
- 9780745627922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.40
€ 28.40
Paperback. Tim Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main market ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447203094
- ISBN
- 9781447203094
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
€ 11.99
€ 10.17
Paperback. Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141664
- ISBN
- 9780691141664
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.62
€ 54.99
€ 39.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472505736
- ISBN
- 9781472505736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.01
€ 35.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Corrigan, Timothy. Num Pages: 488 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 502
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415560108
- ISBN
- 9780415560108
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Condition: New
€ 63.90
€ 63.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HRQX9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928179
- ISBN
- 9781869928179
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413761
- ISBN
- 9781421413761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.27
€ 51.99
€ 43.27
Paperback. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801853609
- ISBN
- 9780801853609
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.59
€ 43.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Editor(s): Moore, Timothy J. Translator(s): Parker, Douglass. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; DD; DSBB; HBLA1. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 11. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624661853
- ISBN
- 9781624661853
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.92
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Editor(s): Moore, Timothy J. Translator(s): Parker, Douglass. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; DD; DSBB; HBLA1. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624661860
- ISBN
- 9781624661860
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Condition: New
€ 58.01€ 45.69
€ 58.01
€ 45.69
Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743501
- ISBN
- 9780804743501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel (Harvard Eas...
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659797
- ISBN
- 9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuch...
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
Hardback. Writer Higuchi Ichiyo has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of her best-known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of her narratives. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022720
- ISBN
- 9780674022720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816689439
- ISBN
- 9780816689439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816696086
- ISBN
- 9780816696086
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727778
- ISBN
- 9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.92
€ 46.99
€ 41.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674036055
- ISBN
- 9780674036055
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.61
€ 23.99
€ 20.61
Hardback. American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily "green" in contemporary terms, can offer important insights into our relationship to the environment. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; DS; GTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236378
- ISBN
- 9780812236378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69
Paperback. The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 201 x 9. Weight in Grams: 258. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KRA0011120
- ISBN
- 9781904341819
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 35 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300218459
- ISBN
- 9780300218459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.49
€ 26.99
€ 20.49