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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444786286
ISBN
9781444786286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474413534
ISBN
9781474413534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.11

Paperback. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth). Editor(s): Rusten, Jeffrey S. Translator(s): Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David; Rosen, Ralph M.; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Slater, Niall W. Num Pages: 816 pages, 43, 42 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 254 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1274.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421186
ISBN
9781421421186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 47.41

Hardback. Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry contains 17 studies on Greek Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic poetry by leading international academics drawn from the last three decades, 3 of which are translated here for the first time. Ian Rutherford has written an introduction surveying the scholarship in the field. Editor(s): Rutherford, Ian. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199216192
ISBN
9780199216192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.92

Paperback. Translator(s): Posten, Anne. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; AGB; BGF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811221399
ISBN
9780811221399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.54

Paperback. A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. Editor(s): Payne, Philip; Bartram, Graham; Tihanov, Galin. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 720. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 474 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Payne, Philip; Bartram, Graham; Tihanov, Galin. A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight: 730.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
474
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134530
ISBN
9781571134530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.25

Hardcover. Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 115 x 22. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996724
ISBN
9780674996724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392. Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. 232 pages, illustrations. An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HP. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight: 390.
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
10th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313663
ISBN
9780822313663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardback. Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 33. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240863
ISBN
9780812240863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Paperback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 300 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362944
ISBN
9780822362944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. In John Willett's translation, this edition contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases Editor(s): Rorrison, Hugh. Translator(s): Willett, John. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 b&w photographs of stage productions. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413577801
ISBN
9780413577801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.44

Paperback. A Level English Text Guide - The Great Gatsby Editor(s): CGP Books. Num Pages: 75 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP)
Number of pages
75
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847626684
ISBN
9781847626684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.68

Paperback. Series: Focus on. Num Pages: 63 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
63
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075088
ISBN
9781906075088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472528957
ISBN
9781472528957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.74

Paperback. Presents an account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet. This book explores the adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly "prison house of souls" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Expanded edition with a New preface by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160245
ISBN
9780691160245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.78

paperback. Uncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155128
ISBN
9780691155128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.62

Paperback. Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies. This book traces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571242535
ISBN
9780571242535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.07

Hardback. Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca 300-600 ce). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters. Editor(s): Sogno, Cristiana; Storin, Bradley K.; Watts, Edward J. (Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Indiana University). Num Pages: 488 pages, 2 line illustrations, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2ADL; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 188 x 2. Weight in Grams: 1032.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281448
ISBN
9780520281448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.88
€ 111.93

Paperback. Definitive new biography of C. S. Lewis, author of the ever-popular Narnia books Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444745542
ISBN
9781444745542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. A groundbreaking memoir by the acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847083326
ISBN
9781847083326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the recent political revolutions in France and America. Editor(s): Binfield, Kevin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416960
ISBN
9781421416960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.37

Paperback. Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373454
ISBN
9781780373454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.41

Paperback. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165813
ISBN
9780691165813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.73

Hardback. This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Editor(s): Marcus, Laura; Mukherjee, Ankhi. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 232 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405188609
ISBN
9781405188609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.75

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