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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This book is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067134
ISBN
9780674067134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.34

Paperback. Andrew Parker undertakes a critical reconsideration of the frequently absent, or troubled, figure of the mother in theorists including Marx, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352327
ISBN
9780822352327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Paperback. In this, his second book about the essence and depth of Samuel Beckett's thinking and literary art, John Calder analyses the dualism of Beckett's theological writing, his debt to the Gnostics, Manichaeism and Geulincx in particular, the presence of ghosts in his work, and why his late writing has received so little attention. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714543833
ISBN
9780714543833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. Malcolm Davies provides the first full commentary on the surviving fragments of the four epics that recount the story of the Seven's failed assault against Thebes and the successful assault in the next generation. He sets them in context and examines whether artistic depictions of the relevant myths can help reconstruct the lost epics' contents. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674417243
ISBN
9780674417243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.48

Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472577023
ISBN
9781472577023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of writing for the British stage. This work is the study of Martin Crimp's work for stage and radio. Arguing that he is one of the most acute satirists of contemporary British society, it provides an account of the playwright's work, as well as an account of each of Crimp's plays. Series: Critical Companions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413775887
ISBN
9780413775887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.57

Paperback.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408184417
ISBN
9781408184417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004376
ISBN
9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004145
ISBN
9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The eternal Don Juan, the creation more than 350 years ago of a monk and dramatist known as Tirso de Molina, has appeared on the boards as a thinker and fool, hero and villain, but never as anything less than a great lover. This book presents different aspects of the Don's progress through a half-dozen countries, epochs, and intellectual climates. Editor(s): Mandel, Oscar. Num Pages: 731 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 3J; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 993.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
731
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803281370
ISBN
9780803281370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.84

Paperback. Series: Critical Companions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 319.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408185858
ISBN
9781408185858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.57

Hardback. Series: Critical Companions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ANB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472570307
ISBN
9781472570307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 104.73

Paperback. This 1993 book explores the history of French theatre in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780521035019
ISBN
9780521035019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.00

hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804769549
ISBN
9780804769549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.85

Hardback. Num Pages: 421 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
421
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910024
ISBN
9781575910024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.57

Paperback. In this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a reappraisal of 15th-century England through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk. Num Pages: 268 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226291024
ISBN
9780226291024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.29

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
€ 33.77

Paperback. Includes essays that extend the author's investigations of the instability of the physical text. This title shows how various texts enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015187
ISBN
9780691015187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.98

Hardback. Series: Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Num Pages: 247 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HBAH; HBJD; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 159. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136173
ISBN
9780874136173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.69

Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481006
ISBN
9781611481006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.30

Hardback. This assessment of American literary history explores the ways in which the interplay of written and oral forms shaped the foundations of both national literature and political identity. It examines numerous texts, written from colonial to modern times, considering how speech and writing interact. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231084987
ISBN
9780231084987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.49
€ 77.94

Paperback. Robert Henryson was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem is the narrative "Testament of Cresseid", set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde". This work features the translated Seven of the Fables. Translator(s): Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249664
ISBN
9780571249664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; DSB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480362
ISBN
9780801480362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.71

Hardback. Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. This work helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131115
ISBN
9780691131115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

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