Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738484
- ISBN
- 9780804738484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardcover. Angelo Poliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance. His "Sylvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. Editor(s): Fantazzi, Charles. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674014800
- ISBN
- 9780674014800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.72
€ 40.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Forrester, Sibelan E. S.; Kelly, Martha M. F. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 618 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 618
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618113528
- ISBN
- 9781618113528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 171.72
€ 171.72
Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 185 x 21. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634851251
- ISBN
- 9781634851251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.58€ 179.91
€ 241.58
€ 179.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 4. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887485640
- ISBN
- 9780887485640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.29
€ 19.99
€ 17.29
Paperback. Series: Theatre Makers. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474251419
- ISBN
- 9781474251419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.87
€ 36.87
Paperback. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study "The Second Sex" made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement. Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 182 pages, 21 black & white halftones, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904950097
- ISBN
- 9781904950097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Eleanore Holveck presents Simone de Beauvoir's theory of literature and metaphysics, including its relationship to the philosophers Husserl, Heidegger, Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, with reference to the literary tradition of Goethe, Maurice Barres, Rimbaud, Andre Breton and Paul Nizan. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HPJ; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513365
- ISBN
- 9780742513365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Hardback. aeo This is a very accessible introduction to one of the key figures in contemporary feminist thought. aeo The approach to Simone de Beauvoir is distinctive because it examines her work as a philosopher -- this book is the first full--length assessment of Simone de Beauvoira s philosophy. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745612027
- ISBN
- 9780745612027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardcover. In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Deborah Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011885
- ISBN
- 9780674011885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.95€ 81.53
€ 89.95
€ 81.53
Hardback. Including a historical inquiry into the status of Jewish poetry as a marginalized kind of writing, this work helps us think about the ways in which displacement, exile, mourning, gender, and prayer contribute to the shaping of the Jewish American imagination and its poetic production. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734295
- ISBN
- 9780804734295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.27
€ 89.27
Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921457
- ISBN
- 9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.52
€ 34.52
Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319723
- ISBN
- 9781846319723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.12
€ 141.12
Hardcover. Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719095979
- ISBN
- 9780719095979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.55
€ 149.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Chien-hsin; Bernards, Brian. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644. A Critical Reader. Series: Global Chinese Culture. 472 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 figures. Editor(s): Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Chien-hsin; Bernards, Brian. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight: 644.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157513
- ISBN
- 9780231157513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.00€ 36.07
€ 45.00
€ 36.07
Hardback. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Num Pages: 476 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 275 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 476
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644588
- ISBN
- 9781442644588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.39
€ 96.39
paperback. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 185 x 264 x 25. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781879288591
- ISBN
- 9781879288591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.61
€ 47.61
Features a classic poem, translated from Middle English. This title includes a translator's preface, sample lines from the original Middle English, and suggestions for further reading. It also includes a comprehensive Introduction that addresses questions of authorship, the plot and structure of the poem, and England in the fourteenth-century. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846196
- ISBN
- 9781603846196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.61
€ 45.99
€ 32.61
Paperback. Features a classic poem, translated from Middle English. This title includes a translator's preface, sample lines from the original Middle English, and suggestions for further reading. It also includes a comprehensive Introduction that addresses questions of authorship, the plot and structure of the poem, and England in the fourteenth-century. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846189
- ISBN
- 9781603846189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.42
€ 17.99
€ 14.42
Paperback. This edition focuses on the Middle English text, with a Modern English Verse translation on facing pages and extensive notes at the bottom of the pages. It discusses the manuscript, the anonymous poet and his other poems, and the structure of the poem and its audience, themes and characterization. Translator(s): Vantuono, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268017675
- ISBN
- 9780268017675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. This is the best translation of Sir Gawain Gordon Teskey, Cornell University Translator(s): Winny, James. Num Pages: 192 pages, Plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780921149927
- ISBN
- 9780921149927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.97
€ 25.99
€ 19.97
Paperback. Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, this work describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, it is among the Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction. Editor(s): O'Donoghue, Bernard. Translator(s): O'Donoghue, Bernard. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140424539
- ISBN
- 9780140424539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Battles, Paul. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 260
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810192
- ISBN
- 9781554810192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.96
€ 36.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445654669
- ISBN
- 9781445654669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16