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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Offers a study of one of the controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. In this title, the author's survey includes a biography, analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage. It is suitable for the student and theatregoer. Editor(s): Roberts, Philip; Boon, Richard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571229611
ISBN
9780571229611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. The original edition of this work was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". It has been revised throughout and contains additional chapters on each of Heaney's poetry collections published since the first edition, as well as separate discussions of his work as a translator and essayist. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571177479
ISBN
9780571177479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.06

Paperback. This autobiography follows Paul Watkins's early life and schooling at the Dragon School, Eton and Yale. Born in 1963, Watkins is the author of "The Promise of Light" and "Night Over Day Over Night", which were both nominated for the Booker Prize. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571171576
ISBN
9780571171576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482881
ISBN
9781611482881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.54

Paperback. In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; ACV; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719073571
ISBN
9780719073571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.77

Paperback. Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060415
ISBN
9780226060415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.90

Paperback. By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; DSBF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748664894
ISBN
9780748664894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.77

Hardback. Editor(s): Nakassis, Dimitri; Gulizio, Joann; James, Sarah A. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 tables, 31 B/W figures. BIC Classification: DSBB; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 284 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1451.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
INSTAP Academic Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931534765
ISBN
9781931534765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.99

Paperback. Henry IV, Part One has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays since it was first produced, and was reprinted several times during the playwright's lifetime. This Broadview Edition provides a discussion of the play's performance history, and both the introduction and footnotes encourage readers to think about the play as a performance text. Editor(s): Gaby, Rosemary. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554810512
ISBN
9781554810512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.29

Hardback. Editor(s): Brater, Enoch. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Edition
Student
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472514974
ISBN
9781472514974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Paperback. Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives. Editor(s): Okpewho, Isidore. Series: Casebooks in Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195147643
ISBN
9780195147643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; G; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589880795
ISBN
9781589880795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.71

Paperback. One of the classic novels of English literature which was admired by Virginia Woolf as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. This edition includes a critical introduction, and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot and historical documents. Editor(s): Maertz, Gregory. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 739 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112336
ISBN
9781551112336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 10 line art illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816646869
ISBN
9780816646869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.99

Paperback. This new annotated edition inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 944 pages, 11 illustrations, chronology, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSC; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
2 Sub
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393974966
ISBN
9780393974966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.50

Paperback. What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection, now available in paperback, considers the evidence of early modern printed plays and their histories of production and reception, from early performance to the psychology of Hamlet. Editor(s): Holland, Peter; Orgel, Stephen. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210134
ISBN
9780230210134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.65
€ 63.81

Hardback. The formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with the unification of the two Kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd, not only unified parts of the Arabian peninsula which had until then remained disparate, but also led to the development of a distinct Saudi Arabian literature. This title offers insight into the complex and enigmatic setting of Saudi Arabia. Editor(s): Al-Sebail, Abdulaziz; Calderbank, Anthony. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK; FA; FYB; FYT; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760995
ISBN
9781780760995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.83
€ 137.06

Hardback. Poetry in Saudi Arabia today is a dramatic manifestation of the rapid changes that are sweeping not only through the country's literature and culture, but also through Saudi life as a whole. This title presents a picture of how poetry has evolved in Saudi Arabia. Editor(s): Al-Bazei, Saad. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSC; FYT; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760988
ISBN
9781780760988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.83
€ 137.06

Paperback. Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 1536 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 146 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140432152
ISBN
9780140432152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 20.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 239 pages, 29 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1HBE; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
David Brown Book Company United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780977409426
ISBN
9780977409426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.56

Hardcover. Num Pages: 260 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: BM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907869785
ISBN
9781907869785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853994883
ISBN
9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.65

Paperback. Focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse in England from the 5th to the 15th century. The book explores how a living tradition articulated through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers found expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020248
ISBN
9780268020248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. This 1982 collection examines Ireland's relations with the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. Editor(s): Whitelock, Dorothy; McKitterick, Rosamond; Dumville, David. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 791. Nice clean copy in dustjacket. Scarce
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ8038956
ISBN
9780521235471
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 48.00

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