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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 333 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772895246
ISBN
9788772895246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989464
ISBN
9780295989464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

hardcover. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Edition
2008th Edition
SKU
V9781403984104
ISBN
9781403984104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.00

paperback. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539628
ISBN
9781349539628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.26

Hardback. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, the author reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073357
ISBN
9780674073357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536440
ISBN
9781557536440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Hardcover. A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. Editor(s): Gallagher, Lowell; Raman, Shankar. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230275614
ISBN
9780230275614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

Paperback. A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. Editor(s): Gallagher, L.; Raman, S. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349324934
ISBN
9781349324934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449734
ISBN
9780801449734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Hardback. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648876
ISBN
9781442648876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.15

Paperback. In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian of Winchester College realize that he had discovered a hitherto unknown version of Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte dArthur, a work known to all previous readers only through Caxtons 1485 edition. For it was known that Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel had been imprisoned on numerous occasions .. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196059
ISBN
9781845196059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.57

Hardback. Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142786
ISBN
9780231142786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.64
€ 80.25

Paperback. As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece; 1 line. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055926
ISBN
9780674055926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.85

Paperback. Readers will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but with altered and added features designed to render it as useful today as it has ever been. Editor(s): Fulk, R. D.; Bjork, Robert E.; Niles, John D. Series: Toronto Old English Studies. Num Pages: 704 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 986.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New ed of 4th revised ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802095671
ISBN
9780802095671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 52.04

Hardcover. Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity. This title examines two texts - Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae" and "Guillaume de Lorris" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose". Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226724614
ISBN
9780226724614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.51

Paperback. Reveals a new dimension of Dickinson's writing and thinking, one indicating that she was thoroughly familiar with the legal community's idiomatic language, actively engaged with contemporary political and ethical questions, and skilled at deploying a poetic register ranging from high romanticism to low humor. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625341136
ISBN
9781625341136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1989
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349204403
ISBN
9781349204403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349414215
ISBN
9781349414215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.49

Hardback. This text opens by examining the significance of boyhood in the evolution of European modernity. Chapter one shows how closely the figure of the adolescent is associated with questions of imperial expansion and consolidation. Following chapters take up Rudyard Kipling's fiction of the imperial boy. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333761045
ISBN
9780333761045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Paperback. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349100354
ISBN
9781349100354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.01

Hardcover. Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization. Editor(s): Rooney, Caroline; Nagai, Kaori. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224469
ISBN
9780230224469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Paperback. Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization. Editor(s): Nagai, K. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309498
ISBN
9781349309498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Hardback. This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530394
ISBN
9781557530394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.42

Paperback. This comprehensive edition of King Richard III offers all the features associated with the Arden Shakespeare. Richard is one of Shakespeare's great villains and the play that bears his name is one of his most popular in performance and in classrooms. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 524 pages, 20 in the Introduction. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
524
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
3rd Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436899
ISBN
9781903436899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.10

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