Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Echoing through Western culture for more than two millenia, Sophocles' Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destinies. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195143102
- ISBN
- 9780195143102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.06
€ 15.99
€ 15.06
Hardcover. One of the most important surviving works from the golden age of Ancient Egyptian literature, a searching exploration of human motivation and divine justice, is discussed and translated in this major literary study. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HDDG; HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 254 x 24. Weight in Grams: 816.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264331
- ISBN
- 9780197264331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.72
€ 136.72
British Academy Lectures 2014-15 (British Academy Lectures Series)
. Ed(S): Carsten, Janet; Frith, Simon
paperback. British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes lectures from the 2014 and 2015 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2015. Editor(s): Carsten, Janet; Frith, Simon. Series: British Academy Lectures Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, c. 20. BIC Classification: DSGS; HBJD; HBWQ; JFFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 175 x 246 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265987
- ISBN
- 9780197265987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.35
€ 76.35
Hardcover. Henry James's Style of Retrospect examines the last twenty-five years of James's writing life, focussing on the rather the substantial body of retrospective and commemorative non-fiction which he began to produce in the 1890s Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198734802
- ISBN
- 9780198734802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.86
€ 170.86
Hardcover. British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish writing. It includes numerous well-known poems and gives vivid insights into the lives of Anglo-Irish Franciscans at a time of unrest between native Irish and English settlers. Editor(s): Turville-Petre, Thorlac. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Early English Text Society
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739166
- ISBN
- 9780198739166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.37
€ 134.37
hardcover. Michael Anesko explores Henry James's efforts to correct 'mistakes' that he later perceived in his books as first printed. He focuses on two of Henry James's most important texts, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903), and the ways in which both betray (in very peculiar ways) the fallibility of James himself. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198794882
- ISBN
- 9780198794882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.71
€ 114.71
paperback. Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Imagining the Americas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199307203
- ISBN
- 9780199307203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34
hardcover. This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text of Historical Criticism (1879). The notebook illuminates Wilde's practices of research and composition, contains the unused materials Wilde studied, and shows his wit and imagination at work. Editor(s): Smith, Philip E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688012
- ISBN
- 9780199688012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.17
€ 183.17
hardcover. This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey H. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 255 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1068.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199731497
- ISBN
- 9780199731497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 232.88
€ 232.88
Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199765096
- ISBN
- 9780199765096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.29
€ 186.29
Paperback. Uncovering a substantial variety of books by women about the diverse West Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 5SL; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078842
- ISBN
- 9780252078842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.84
€ 36.99
€ 32.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016279
- ISBN
- 9780674016279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.85
€ 37.99
€ 31.85
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
€ 36.99€ 30.82
€ 36.99
€ 30.82
Paperback. The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the devil?s nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802083692
- ISBN
- 9780802083692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.72
€ 43.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. This volume traces Yeats' fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, especially his interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, helped shape his aesthetic theory and practice as a poet. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 60 photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACVM; AFKB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629955
- ISBN
- 9780815629955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.79
€ 33.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816625277
- ISBN
- 9780816625277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.36
€ 27.99
€ 26.36
Hardcover. Illuminating the foundations for contemporary women's environmental writing, Fallen Forests shows how their nineteenth-century predecessors marshalled powerful affective, ethical, and spiritual resources to chastise, educate, and motivate readers to engage in positive social change. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820332864
- ISBN
- 9780820332864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.06
€ 158.06
hardcover. Editor(s): Watts, Edward; Holt, Keri; Funchion, John. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white photograph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820348223
- ISBN
- 9780820348223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.02
€ 69.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Bailey, Tom. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195395655
- ISBN
- 9780195395655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 153.14
€ 153.14
Hardcover. Series: The Cornell Wordsworth. Num Pages: 832 pages, 106ill. BIC Classification: DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801412837
- ISBN
- 9780801412837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 293.04
€ 293.04