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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137278128
ISBN
9781137278128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.47

Paperback. This edition of the anonymously-authored, Middle English poem, "Pearl", is offered with a verse translation, Middle English text, and a commentary. On each page, the Middle English text is faced with a Modern English verse translation. The book is designed for classroom use, specialists and others. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 bibliographies, glossary. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038113
ISBN
9780268038113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.78

Paperback. 'An elegant, absorbing book.' Washington Post Num Pages: 500 pages, 43 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780521639897
ISBN
9780521639897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Stanbury, Sarah. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 117 pages, 0 black and white; 1 full color. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
117
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580440332
ISBN
9781580440332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.52

Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1179.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610052
ISBN
9780815610052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 40.64

Hardcover. Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921679
ISBN
9780813921679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.85

Hardback. Offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. This title traces Paulinus' intellectual and spiritual journey. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 404 pages, 3 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADL; BG; DSBB; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217096
ISBN
9780520217096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.41

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641454
ISBN
9780691641454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.78

Paperback. Karl Simms also offers a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's work as well as secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415236379
ISBN
9780415236379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.07

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646831
ISBN
9780691646831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.28

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904301400
ISBN
9781904301400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801883026
ISBN
9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.21
€ 57.22

Paperback. Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll, Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. This book demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826427922
ISBN
9780826427922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epit=edeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. Editor(s): Moreno, Alfonso; Thomas, Rosalind. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199668885
ISBN
9780199668885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 168.77

paperback. Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on recurring linguistic patterns used by writers. Series: Interface. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415140645
ISBN
9780415140645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.11

Hardcover. In this study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008618
ISBN
9780674008618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.34

Paperback. Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, the author creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero - his father. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099914303
ISBN
9780099914303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. This study examines the novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with minor shelf wear and some edgewear to DW
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001347
ISBN
9780333388693
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). This book examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJWWM; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846316869
ISBN
9781846316869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.34

Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white line drawings, maps, charts. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935188
ISBN
9780813935188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.97

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white line drawings, charts. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935171
ISBN
9780813935171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.87

Paperback. Editor(s): MacGowan, Christopher J. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811212984
ISBN
9780811212984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.18

Hardback. After an introduction to patents, their historical development and their current characteristics, this book describes the uses to which patents can be put, followed by details of their availability. Num Pages: 546 pages, figs. BIC Classification: DSB; LNR; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
546
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810828797
ISBN
9780810828797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.90

Paperback. Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception. Series: New British Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230001800
ISBN
9780230001800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.72

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