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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, the author reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073357
ISBN
9780674073357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536440
ISBN
9781557536440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449734
ISBN
9780801449734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardback. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648876
ISBN
9781442648876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries. Editor(s): Ladan, Niayesh. Series Editor(s): Bernau, Anke. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; WTLC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719081750
ISBN
9780719081750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.15

Paperback. In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian of Winchester College realize that he had discovered a hitherto unknown version of Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte dArthur, a work known to all previous readers only through Caxtons 1485 edition. For it was known that Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel had been imprisoned on numerous occasions .. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196059
ISBN
9781845196059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.43

Hardback. Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142786
ISBN
9780231142786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.12

Paperback. As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. This book presents a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos find himself in. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece; 1 line. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055926
ISBN
9780674055926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.53

Paperback. Readers will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but with altered and added features designed to render it as useful today as it has ever been. Editor(s): Fulk, R. D.; Bjork, Robert E.; Niles, John D. Series: Toronto Old English Studies. Num Pages: 704 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 986.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New ed of 4th revised ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802095671
ISBN
9780802095671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 46.00

Hardcover. Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity. This title examines two texts - Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae" and "Guillaume de Lorris" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose". Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226724614
ISBN
9780226724614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.25

Hardback. This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530394
ISBN
9781557530394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.87

Paperback. This comprehensive edition of King Richard III offers all the features associated with the Arden Shakespeare. Richard is one of Shakespeare's great villains and the play that bears his name is one of his most popular in performance and in classrooms. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 524 pages, 20 in the Introduction. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
524
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
3rd Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436899
ISBN
9781903436899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. This annotated edition of "King Richard II" takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 612 pages, illustrations facsimiles, genealogy, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
612
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
3Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436332
ISBN
9781903436332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025929
ISBN
9780674025929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

Paperback. This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 213 x 298 x 10. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447982241
ISBN
9781447982241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143128557
ISBN
9780143128557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches to early modern literary works, using King Lear as the focus of her argument, and offering a theoretical framework of her own. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320388
ISBN
9780822320388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSGS. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582784291
ISBN
9780582784291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. "The play plus a translation anyone can understand"-Cover. Editor(s): Crowther, John. Series: No Fear Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Spark Notes
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586638535
ISBN
9781586638535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. In this edition, R.A. Foakes brings to bear a number of historical perspectives and critically addresses recent explorations of "King Lear" as a play of redemption, a play of despair and a play that destabilises all commentary. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 456 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436592
ISBN
9781903436592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.34

Hardback. By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works. Series: The Shakespeare Handbooks. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566633628
ISBN
9781566633628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.27

Paperback. Series: Shakespeare Handbooks. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403986894
ISBN
9781403986894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.61

Paperback. Includes material to help reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. This book features scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576148
ISBN
9780230576148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Braunmuller, A. R. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537143
ISBN
9780199537143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

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