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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780822346449
ISBN
9780822346449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Editor(s): Adams, Anne V.; Sutherland-Addy, Esi. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Edition
AFRICA
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954702311
ISBN
9780954702311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226435138
ISBN
9780226435138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: AGB; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Wakefield Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Printing from This Publisher
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984115532
ISBN
9780984115532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.17

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996762
ISBN
9780674996762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 187 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Hachette Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306810732
ISBN
9780306810732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.35

Paperback. Includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of "The Lays of Marie de France"; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays - The Lay of Melion and The Lay of Tyolet; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialised terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French. Translator(s): Gallagher, Edward J. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
193
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841887
ISBN
9781603841887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.15

Hardback. Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series. Num Pages: 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ; JMAF; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319552743
ISBN
9783319552743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.39

Paperback. The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities? Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691157870
ISBN
9780691157870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. "The Law Code of Visnu" ("Vaisnava-dharmasastra") is one of the of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in Kashmir. This title contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on fifteen manuscripts, an annotated English translation, and an introduction evaluating its textual history. Editor(s): Olivelle, Patrick. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2B; 2BM; CJB; DSBB; HBJF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051393
ISBN
9780674051393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.12

Paperback. Series: Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461282419
ISBN
9781461282419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. Valeria Woodville investigates the murder of her husband's first wife in the attempt to prove him guiltless. This book exposes the repression of Victorian domestic life and marriage. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005186
ISBN
9780140436075
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. Editor(s): Lazo, Rodrigo; Aleman, Jesse. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479896837
ISBN
9781479896837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.15

Paperback. Editor(s): Lazo, Rodrigo; Aleman, Jesse. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479855872
ISBN
9781479855872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and traces of the past had a singular aura. This book presents the literary history of the Tang. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033283
ISBN
9780674033283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.61

paperback. BIC Classification: DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Dramatists Play Services Inc,US United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822218586
ISBN
9780822218586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.48

Hardback. Harold Pinter (1930-2008) is one of the foremost twentieth-century dramatists/ playwrights in Britain as well as the world. This new book offers a comprehensive overview of Pinter's work across various media including political dramas, poetry, screenplays, and his activism. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137508157
ISBN
9781137508157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.80

Paperback. Points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. This volume also deconstructs the whole question of lateness and the usefulness of periodization. It calls into question the "fact" of Derrida's turn to politics, law, and ethics and highlights continuities throughout his oeuvre. Editor(s): Mitchell, W. J. T.; Davidson, Arnold I. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 99 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532578
ISBN
9780226532578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.80

Paperback. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. With new preface. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148153
ISBN
9780231148153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.89

paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 113. Signed by the poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Ver good clean copy. Covers showing a little shelf wear. Light spotting on page edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice reading copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Salmon Publishing Co. Clare
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0030508
ISBN
9781903392089
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 24.00

hardcover. A wide-ranging study of the myth of "The Last of the Race" as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late-17th to late-19th centuries, from the ancient myths of Noah and Deucalion to contemporary stories of nuclear holocaust. Num Pages: 338 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBD; DSBF; JFCX; JFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 694. Good clean copy showing some age and shelfwear. Some scoring to half title and title page including ownership details and Ex Libris stamp. Some warping to dust jacket and front board. Remains good copy with clean text and crisp pages
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Clarendon Press Oxford Oxford
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0024963
ISBN
9780198112228
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Editor(s): McWilliams, John P., Jr. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538195
ISBN
9780199538195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.13

paperback. Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. Num Pages: 500 pages, 26 black-and-white halftones, 8 textual illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKP; AN; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199596508
ISBN
9780199596508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

hardcover. Series: 20th Century Continental Fiction S. Num Pages: 89 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
89
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231062442
ISBN
9780231062442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

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