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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746312209
ISBN
9780746312209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.99

Paperback. Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 362 pages, black & white illustrations. Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 25. Weight: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Camden House
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134738
ISBN
9781571134738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.56

Paperback. PMContents: Introduction: Tumbles and Leaps; Beginning in Wisdom; Towards a Rhetoric of Destitution; Excellence and Loss; History and Seduction; Defeats and Dreams; Notes and References; Index Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349090181
ISBN
9781349090181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.65

Hardback. Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137543554
ISBN
9781137543554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.66
€ 27.05

hardcover. Editor(s): Gaines, Robert A. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 148 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2017
SKU
V9781349951697
ISBN
9781349951697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.88

Hardback. This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137330192
ISBN
9781137330192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.60

Paperback. This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349460885
ISBN
9781349460885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1990
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349204731
ISBN
9781349204731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.28

Hardcover. Drawing on extensive archival materials held in England, the United States, and Canada, Bernard Shaw and the BBC presents a vivid portrait of many contentious issues negotiated between Shaw and the public broadcaster. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802089205
ISBN
9780802089205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.27

This collection of 171 letters, most never before published, finally makes the fascinating Shaw/Murray correspondence available. Editor(s): Carpenter, Charles A. Series: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643826
ISBN
9781442643826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Edition
2006th Edition
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403971678
ISBN
9781403971678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD1; HBLL; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403971661
ISBN
9781403971661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

hardcover. Series: Contemporary Irish Writers. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483017
ISBN
9781611483017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

This is the first book-length study on the Anglo-Jewish writer Bernard Kops, who became famous as part of the new wave of British drama with the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green in 1958. Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611476569
ISBN
9781611476569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.63

Paperback. Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Translator(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJC; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022225
ISBN
9780674022225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.54

Hardback. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424426
ISBN
9780857424426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.44

Paperback. How do we live with our parents after their death? How do we tell their story when they are gone? This book addresses these questions. It recreates a common experience - the loss of a father or a mother - and exposes the often tortuous paths of mourning and attachment that we follow in the wake of loss. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 b&w photos, 4 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213792
ISBN
9780253213792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. This new poetic translation brings the earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. Kennedy offers a translation in alliterative verse, based on Klaeber's text, of the Old English Beowulf, and provides a brief critical introduction which reviews literary and cultural discussions of the poem. Editor(s): Kennedy, Charles W. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195024357
ISBN
9780195024357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.60

Paperback. This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be of use to both students and the general reader. Series: Manchester Medieval Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719051463
ISBN
9780719051463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811137
ISBN
9781554811137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.97

paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
9780872208933
ISBN
9780872208933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.35

Paperback. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Editor(s): SparkNotes. Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 135 x 209 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
SparkNotes
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411469440
ISBN
9781411469440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ACSC; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 902.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
596
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408286036
ISBN
9781408286036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.07

Paperback. Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a modern idiom. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222753
ISBN
9780812222753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

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