Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. A wide-ranging and intelligent examination of one of the most important poets in the Western tradition, this book will be of interest to scholars and poetry-lovers alike. Editor(s): Barolini, Teodolinda. Translator(s): Lansing, Richard. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626195
- ISBN
- 9781442626195
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Condition: New
€ 42.10
€ 42.10
paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231058919
- ISBN
- 9780231058919
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.35
€ 36.99
€ 27.35
Paperback. Features fifty essays that focus on a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. This work provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629964238
- ISBN
- 9789629964238
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Condition: New
€ 27.31
€ 27.31
paperback. This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. " Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138913981
- ISBN
- 9781138913981
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Condition: New
€ 56.42
€ 56.42
paperback. Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices. Num Pages: 694 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520253971
- ISBN
- 9780520253971
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 28.87
€ 44.99
€ 28.87
Paperback. Examines Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. This book finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided. Num Pages: 292 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472031634
- ISBN
- 9780472031634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.91
€ 33.99
€ 30.91
Paperback. Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472031047
- ISBN
- 9780472031047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.47
€ 40.99
€ 36.47
paperback. Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Berkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions on the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415905497
- ISBN
- 9780415905497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Explores how Saudi Arabian women writers have used their art as a means of gaining control over the cultural and political restraints imposed by their society. Nine of the most influential writers are studied in detail, and excerpts of their writings appear here in English for the first time. Num Pages: 357 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 2CSR; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231084215
- ISBN
- 9780231084215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.00€ 33.73
€ 41.00
€ 33.73
Hardback. Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset. Num Pages: 2424 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 2424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138750524
- ISBN
- 9781138750524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.58
€ 117.58
Paperback. Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892640973
- ISBN
- 9780892640973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
paperback. Hopkins is now recognized as a major nineteenth-century poet. His poetry reveals his sense of vocation as both priest and poet, his love of beauty, and his search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. This selection includes many of his best-known poems, including 'The Windhover' and 'Felix Randall'. Editor(s): Phillips, Catherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199537297
- ISBN
- 9780199537297
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.12
€ 13.99
€ 10.12
Paperback. From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and often transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017566
- ISBN
- 9780674017566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
€ 44.99
€ 38.32
hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481051
- ISBN
- 9781611481051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.26
€ 85.26
Paperback. Originally published in 1959, this is a collection of Mailer's stories, essays, polemic, meditations and interviews. It may be considered both as a chronicle of a crucial era in the formation of modern American culture, and as a contribution to the autobiographical tradition in American letters. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 34. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005907
- ISBN
- 9780674005907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.24
€ 42.99
€ 36.24
paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780872208933
- ISBN
- 9780872208933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.35
€ 18.99
€ 15.35
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472085408
- ISBN
- 9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.10
€ 34.99
€ 32.10
Hardcover. Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780205175482
- ISBN
- 9780205175482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.37
€ 201.37
Paperback. Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's great epic of universal change, into elegant and remarkably faithful blank verse, along with selections from the Amores. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199941650
- ISBN
- 9780199941650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.09
€ 60.09
Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 1264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 1264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780134053325
- ISBN
- 9780134053325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.76
€ 120.76
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604734201
- ISBN
- 9781604734201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780940322127
- ISBN
- 9780940322127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.29
€ 19.99
€ 15.29
paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300189698
- ISBN
- 9780300189698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.36
€ 23.99
€ 17.36
paperback. Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Num Pages: 676 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 173 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140291179
- ISBN
- 9780140291179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 24.73
€ 34.99
€ 24.73