Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R A B Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 750 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286252
- ISBN
- 9780520286252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.78
€ 49.99
€ 35.78
Hardback. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509502684
- ISBN
- 9781509502684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.02
€ 65.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509502691
- ISBN
- 9781509502691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.78
€ 21.78
paperback. Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804729482
- ISBN
- 9780804729482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Paperback. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729529
- ISBN
- 9780804729529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
In her own time and ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. This work argues that More's agenda was to control the poor, to prevent them rising in revolt against Church and King. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSB; HBTB; JFSC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122229
- ISBN
- 9780813122229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.40
€ 47.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480160
- ISBN
- 9781611480160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.92
€ 127.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747571124
- ISBN
- 9780747571124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.80
€ 19.99
€ 15.80
Hardback. This work is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817505
- ISBN
- 9780761817505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.25
€ 115.25
Paperback. This revealing new biography opens Anne's most private life to a new audience and shows the true nature of her relationships with her siblings, in particular with her sister Charlotte. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750982375
- ISBN
- 9780750982375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.37
€ 17.99
€ 16.37
Hardcover. There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938448
- ISBN
- 9780813938448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.39
€ 96.39
Paperback. There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938462
- ISBN
- 9780813938462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.03
€ 41.03
Hardback. An examination of an intriguing figure in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. The text presents and analyzes literary, historiographic and archaeological data. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 b/w photographs, 2 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HDD; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 188 x 30. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210240
- ISBN
- 9780520210240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.08€ 63.31
€ 82.08
€ 63.31
Paperback. Aims to recreate the turbulent times through which William Shakespeare lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas. Drawing on a range of sources, this work takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780563521419
- ISBN
- 9780563521419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.42
€ 21.99
€ 16.42
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500051849
- ISBN
- 9780500051849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.49
€ 25.99
€ 18.49
Hardcover. Deals with the Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies". This book comprises a discussion, with translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125166
- ISBN
- 9781905125166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.30
€ 79.30
Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165976
- ISBN
- 9780231165976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Aalborg University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788771121100
- ISBN
- 9788771121100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.56
€ 48.99
€ 34.56
Hardback. A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441135070
- ISBN
- 9781441135070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26€ 87.53
€ 117.26
€ 87.53
hardcover. In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802035677
- ISBN
- 9780802035677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
Paperback. A portrait of the bond between a mother and her son, and the capturing of a moment in time before the loss of childhood innocence. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228041
- ISBN
- 9780571228041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.32
€ 14.99
€ 11.32
Hardback. Editor(s): Moisan, Thomas; Bruster, Douglas; Evan, G. Num Pages: 357 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639023
- ISBN
- 9780838639023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.38
€ 139.38
Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157636
- ISBN
- 9780231157636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.95
€ 36.99
€ 26.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, notes, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 249 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850365535
- ISBN
- 9780850365535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.27
€ 21.99
€ 20.27