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Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927831
ISBN
9780813927831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.54

Paperback. In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with freshly-written notes and aphorisms. This book combines earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283507
ISBN
9780571283507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719043574
ISBN
9780719043574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. The great English Renaissance tragedy-violent, powerful, unforgettable-in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. Editor(s): Neill, Michael. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 213 x 26. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393923254
ISBN
9780393923254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582784352
ISBN
9780582784352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904271512
ISBN
9781904271512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.57

Paperback. Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. This work illustrates the old-time virtues of hard work ingenuity, and respect for others. Illustrator(s): Mawicke, Tran. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282162
ISBN
9780803282162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies a faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Translator(s): Cole, Peter. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121956
ISBN
9780691121956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. An historical and political reading of late-nineteenth-century British novels by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. A. Henty, and Sarah Grand. Examines how these novels represent the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823241996
ISBN
9780823241996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.45

paperback. Detailed analysis of the stage plays of South African playwright Athol Fugard. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253215048
ISBN
9780253215048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.90

Hardback. In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646162
ISBN
9781442646162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.17

Paperback. A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198700708
ISBN
9780198700708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.53

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Softback Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854115577
ISBN
9781854115577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.24

hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers, Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781536102819
ISBN
9781536102819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 242.47
€ 179.91

Hardback. This deals with the "doppelganger" as a dominant theme in the fiction of the Romantic period, and its relation to evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony and declined when they began to grow apart. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333490242
ISBN
9780333490242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.72

Paperback. A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846554360
ISBN
9781846554360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This title studies the Doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. It shows how the Doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232994
ISBN
9780823232994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.44

Paperback. A critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. Editor(s): Whitehead, Christiania; Renevey, Denis; Mouron, Anne. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HBLC; HRCS; HRCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897785
ISBN
9780859897785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.21

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640082
ISBN
9780691640082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.78

Paperback. How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores in this text, the space that the university devotes to the study of literature. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226423241
ISBN
9780226423241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 624 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 203 x 35. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019130
ISBN
9780691019130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page). Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 872 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 51. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
872
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019109
ISBN
9780691019109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 696 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 41. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018959
ISBN
9780691018959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 51.06

Paperback. Presents the Italian text of the "Purgatorio". Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. Illustrator(s): Turner, Robert. Num Pages: 720 pages, numerous line drawings & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1072.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195087451
ISBN
9780195087451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.93

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