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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. British excavations at the important archaeological site of Qasr Ibrim have yielded numerous written sources composed in Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, and Arabic. However, only a small number of them have been published so far, among them some sixty Old Nubian texts, both literary and documents. They were edited between 1988 and 1991 by Gerald Michael Num Pages: 350 pages, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Poland
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9788393842513
ISBN
9788393842513
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.09

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776746469
ISBN
9788776746469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.37

Hardcover. This book presents a new view of the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, offering a richer frame for understanding practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. The focus is on public virtues and the fact that law depends on political power. Editor(s): Huppes-Cluysenaer, Liesbeth; Coelho, Nuno M. M. S. Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Num Pages: 289 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; LAB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400760301
ISBN
9789400760301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Halman, Talat Sait. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bilkent University Turkey
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9789756090732
ISBN
9789756090732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

Hardback. Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 695.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035059
ISBN
9780802035059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.96

hardcover. Analyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of six woman writers - Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Romola Nijinsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi - whose lives were twined with the cultural vibrations of their time. Num Pages: 224 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802036902
ISBN
9780802036902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.35

hardcover. Babe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSA; GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 795.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
74th ed.
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802040985
ISBN
9780802040985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.83

paperback. This is the first book to survey all of Klein's poetry, prose, and journalism, published and unpublished, and place it in the context of its times. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802072344
ISBN
9780802072344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.76

paperback. The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and personal developments, accomplishments, disappointments, and satisfactions of that period. Editor(s): Lennox, John; Panofsky, Ruth. Num Pages: 434 pages, port. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802080905
ISBN
9780802080905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.76

hardcover. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours. Editor(s): Sauer, Elizabeth. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802091055
ISBN
9780802091055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Hardback. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. Editor(s): Goodall, Peter. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802093202
ISBN
9780802093202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

hardcover. Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643130
ISBN
9781442643130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Paperback. These collected screenplays include "The Go-Between", "The Proust Screenplay", "Victory", "Turtle Diary", and "Reunion". Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFD; APTD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Edition
Main
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203246
ISBN
9780571203246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.11

Paperback. Edwina Taborsky moves semiotics away from being a descriptive tool within the humanities and uses its powers of analysis on the organic and social nature of cognition. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics & Communication. Num Pages: 229 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Toronto
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802071804
ISBN
9780802071804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.89

Paperback. Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays that presents the best of recent critical theory on the history and future of the page and its enormous influence on Western thought and culture. Editor(s): Stoicheff, Peter; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 330 pages, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802085849
ISBN
9780802085849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.86

hardcover. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802087355
ISBN
9780802087355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.75

hardcover. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography is the story of a distinguished writer whose works are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802087416
ISBN
9780802087416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.94

hardcover. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802090980
ISBN
9780802090980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.61

hardcover. Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity is a highly original and innovative interpretation of Deledda's narrative in philosophical perspective, which also includes the study of textual variations and considers cultural history in Italy during the early twentieth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802098313
ISBN
9780802098313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.49

paperback. Robert Lecker explores the ways in which these anthologies contributed to the formation of a Canadian literary canon, the extent to which this canon was tied to an ideal of English-Canadian nationalism, and the material conditions accounting for the anthologies' production. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613966
ISBN
9781442613966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.54

Paperback. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442627079
ISBN
9781442627079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.31

hardcover. Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9781442650077
ISBN
9781442650077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.60

Paperback. Editor(s): Doniger, Wendy. Num Pages: 418 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBB; HBJF; HRG; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190628802
ISBN
9780190628802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.65

Paperback. This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199568277
ISBN
9780199568277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.64

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