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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; BK; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 243 x 54. Weight in Grams: 940.
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784975975
ISBN
9781784975975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.30

Paperback. Published in 1994, this is a paperback edition edition of a study of the life and writings of literary pioneer, Lydia Maria Child. Her writing made and impact on American life as she addressed the issues of her time: slavery, women's rights, treatm Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 832 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1429.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
832
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KEX0212593
ISBN
9780822321637
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691603476
ISBN
9780691603476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

paperback. This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740784
ISBN
9780804740784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Hardcover. A book on Virginia Woolf that contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. It demonstrates how Woolf used her illness intelligently and creatively in her theories of fiction, of mental functioning, and of self structure. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 513.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520072800
ISBN
9780520072800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.33
€ 48.24

Hardcover. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921006
ISBN
9780813921006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.21

paperback. A collection of poetry and prose from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s from established and emerging Hispanic American authors. Editor(s): Flores, Lauro. Num Pages: 446 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
446
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295977461
ISBN
9780295977461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Mathews, Marthiel; Mathews, Jackson. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DC; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811211178
ISBN
9780811211178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.39

Hardcover. Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed to whet every reader's appetite. Featuring diverse writers and interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers and epicurean explorers. Editor(s): Bodleian Library the. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 29. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851244218
ISBN
9781851244218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816691982
ISBN
9780816691982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. This book offers an original approach to avant-garde art and its transformative force. Presenting an alternative to the approaches to art developed in postmodern theory or cultural studies, Ziarek sees art's significance in its critique of power and the increasing technologization of social relations. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750110
ISBN
9780804750110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742541627
ISBN
9780742541627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.76

paperback. The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an on-going review of his concern with the encoding of languages and the exigencies of their imaginative retrieval. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823216048
ISBN
9780823216048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.59

Hardcover. In this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HPN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919362
ISBN
9780813919362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.74

Paperback. As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these women writers have been marginalized and offers reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works. Series: Berg French Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298. An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Berg Publishers Oxford
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KRS0018107
ISBN
9781859731185
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604640
ISBN
9780691604640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.02

Hardback. Demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. This book recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141420
ISBN
9780231141420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.92
€ 56.11

hardcover. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474213
ISBN
9781611474213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.33

Hardback. "The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 color illus. 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131368
ISBN
9780691131368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.20
€ 66.99

Paperback. The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674314269
ISBN
9780674314269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.55

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691628202
ISBN
9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.73
€ 70.38

hardcover. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473735
ISBN
9781611473735
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.41

hardcover. Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) - coauthors and lovers - for the poetry and verse drama they published. This book presents their love letters, which contain poems and insights into the dramas and their production and are supplemented by annotation and a biographical introduction. Editor(s): Bickle, Sharon. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927510
ISBN
9780813927510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.33

Hardback. This volume is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary in eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460629
ISBN
9781611460629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.13

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