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Paperback. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and diaries. Ritchie Robertson draws out key themes of his work and explains its lasting importance. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199689255
ISBN
9780199689255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135674
ISBN
9781571135674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.24

Hardcover. Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. This title proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: "Faust". Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571133441
ISBN
9781571133441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135988
ISBN
9781571135988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.19

Hardcover. Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit. Series: Goethe Yearbook. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139771
ISBN
9781571139771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.51

Hardcover. A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam. Translator(s): Metzger, Michael M. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 508 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 47. Weight in Grams: 960.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139085
ISBN
9781571139085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.66

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850360714
ISBN
9780850360714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.17

Hardcover. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911564
ISBN
9781575911564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.40

Paperback. In this history of the Goddess Natura, Economou provides a study of her philosophical background and the literary traditions that contributed to her image. He focuses on the Renaissance of the 12th century, when a new kind of allegory appeared that celebrated and explored the nature of the cosmos. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029555
ISBN
9780268029555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.62

Paperback. A survey of the roots and origins of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's works. Biletzky also explores the relationship between Singer and Shalom Aleichem and I.L. Peretz, offering an analysis which synthesizes the Jewish and the Yiddish in Singer's thought and writing. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819198297
ISBN
9780819198297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.98

Paperback. A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Aland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547443
ISBN
9781857547443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.41

paperback. Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." In God's Arbiters, Susan K. Harris shows that the identification of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation" played a major role in the debates over U.S. imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Imagining the Americas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Usa United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199307203
ISBN
9780199307203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: AS; DSB; HB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 163.
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
108
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559362337
ISBN
9781559362337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.25

Hardback. Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, this title asks how some of the most distinguished writers of this tradition wrestle with the inexplicable nature of God and the experience of unmerited natural and moral sufferings such as racial oppression. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927961
ISBN
9780813927961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 384 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479886739
ISBN
9781479886739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99

Paperback. Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, this book maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716694
ISBN
9780814716694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.27

Paperback. Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)--to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism." Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723442
ISBN
9780804723442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.29

Hardback. Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)--to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism." Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723121
ISBN
9780804723121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.74

Hardback. A fresh examination of the four poems of the Cotton manuscript, arguing that they share a profound theological vision. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844198
ISBN
9781843844198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.34

Paperback. This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human communication and the use of language in its social context. This glossary provides full coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology. Series: Glossaries in Linguistics. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10ill. BIC Classification: CFB; DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
Number of pages
160
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748616237
ISBN
9780748616237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.02

Paperback. In this volume, 26 newly commissioned essays provide distinct, original and sometimes playful or unusual definitions of theoretical keywords - both unexpected terms as well as words well established in the critical canon. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 761.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748614356
ISBN
9780748614356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.86

hardcover. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1026.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9781611481310
ISBN
9781611481310
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Hardback. Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739143827
ISBN
9780739143827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Andersen, Thomas Kruger. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFC. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Akademica Publishing Norway
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9788232100033
ISBN
9788232100033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.04

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