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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The ultimate collection of tasteless and sick jokes that just shouldn't be told. Series: Mammoth Books. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849010559
ISBN
9781849010559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. Focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. This title unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading. Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851687305
ISBN
9781851687305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736417
ISBN
9780198736417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.15

Paperback. It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. This book demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Num Pages: 392 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1KJ; DSB; HBTS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New in Paper ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160979
ISBN
9780691160979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719008368
ISBN
9780719008368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.11

Paperback. Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? This work reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691091754
ISBN
9780691091754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.47

Paperback. Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of "Trojan Women," "Helen," and" Hecuba" in one volume also invites provocative engagement with issues of gender, history, warfare, and politics. Translator(s): Blessington, Francis. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299305246
ISBN
9780299305246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.75

Paperback. Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 1997 Num Pages: 704 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
PICADOR
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330371452
ISBN
9780330371452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.90

Hardcover. Seneca Epistulae Vol. II Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1965
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198146490
ISBN
9780198146490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Salzman, Dr Paul. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DQ; DSBD; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540570
ISBN
9780199540570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.41

Hardback. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world. Series: Robson Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442650176
ISBN
9781442650176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.90

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 587 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
587
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816615865
ISBN
9780816615865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.23

Paperback. Presents the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognised as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by poets and readers alike. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701186289
ISBN
9780701186289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Hardback. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26, 18 black & white halftones, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 266 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420943
ISBN
9781421420943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.98

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Master Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
Edition
2003rd Edition
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403900777
ISBN
9781403900777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.11

Paperback. Editor(s): Clarke, Nana Ayebia; Currey, James. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956930767
ISBN
9780956930767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

Paperback. A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306599
ISBN
9780226306599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.57

Paperback. A revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" or "creativity". Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Expanded ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597120
ISBN
9781854597120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.32

Paperback. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E. Num Pages: 168 pages, 8. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222. 168 pages, 8 illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight: 92. Translator(s): Lewin, Jane E.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801495359
ISBN
9780801495359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.25

Paperback. An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447250708
ISBN
9781447250708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.24

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