Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. Contains articles on almost all aspects of ancient philosophy that include critical notices of major books. This volume features essays on Empedocles, Xenophon, and Socrates, with several on each of Plato and Aristotle. Editor(s): Sedley, David. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199287451
- ISBN
- 9780199287451
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardback. An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 744 pages, 24 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 186 x 245 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199287246
- ISBN
- 9780199287246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.22
€ 205.22
paperback. Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBLW3; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199239375
- ISBN
- 9780199239375
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Condition: New
€ 62.02
€ 62.02
Hardcover. This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had. Editor(s): Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198725206
- ISBN
- 9780198725206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.40
€ 197.40
Paperback. Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women. Editor(s): Alberghene, Janice M.; Lyon Clark, Beverly. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138798977
- ISBN
- 9781138798977
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Paperback. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 120. Series: Scotnotes. 56 pages. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg. Cateogry: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight: 120.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies (AS
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780948877056
- ISBN
- 9780948877056
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Condition: New
€ 10.26
€ 10.26
Paperback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251728
- ISBN
- 9780823251728
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.43
€ 29.99
€ 29.43
paperback. This biography of William Wordsworth attempts to tell the story of his life through a rigourous reading of key and representative works of the poet. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's life. Num Pages: 301 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217168
- ISBN
- 9780823217168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.61
€ 46.99
€ 45.61
paperback. Focuses on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, arguing that, although generally animated by a sense of injustice, this literature reflects the virtual collapse in Western culture of the idea of a universal, or "natural", ethical law. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 429.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215102
- ISBN
- 9780823215102
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.08
€ 36.99
€ 36.08
paperback. Traces sentimentality in 19th-century imaginative literature by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality; Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures; and Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823214969
- ISBN
- 9780823214969
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.49
€ 33.99
€ 30.49
paperback. The relationship between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett has long been of interest to literary critics and readers. This volume provides the reader with an overview of the main trends and dilemmas that have dominated discussions on the complex Joyce/Beckett relationship, and pulls together previously scattered materials into a cohesive whole. Editor(s): Carey, Phyllis. Num Pages: 199 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823213412
- ISBN
- 9780823213412
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.76
€ 36.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823210749
- ISBN
- 9780823210749
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.69
€ 36.99
€ 36.69
The Added Dimension. Art and Mind of Flannery O'Connor.
. Ed(S): Friedman, Melvin J.; Lawson, Lewis A...
Paperback. In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor's Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American writer. Editor(s): Friedman, Melvin J.; Lawson, Lewis A. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823207114
- ISBN
- 9780823207114
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.06
€ 41.99
€ 37.06
hardcover. Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. Editor(s): Dzelzainis, Ella; Kaplan, Cora. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081330
- ISBN
- 9780719081330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.99
€ 107.99
Paperback. The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719063992
- ISBN
- 9780719063992
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.63
€ 26.99
€ 26.63
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636658
- ISBN
- 9780691636658
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Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 67.79
€ 88.20
€ 67.79
Paperback. Editor(s): Bagnall, Roger S. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History. Num Pages: 712 pages, 122 h/t, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 175 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 712
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199843695
- ISBN
- 9780199843695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.81
€ 85.81
Hardback. Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' of the 1930s. It explores both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. Editor(s): Parrinder, Patrick; Gasiorek, Professor Andrzej. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 180 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199559336
- ISBN
- 9780199559336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 240.66
€ 240.66
Paperback. The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; FL; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199316076
- ISBN
- 9780199316076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
hardcover. For over two centuries, scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their shares from his. This study takes up and extends these discussions, presenting an evidence. Num Pages: 576 pages, 5 halftones and numerous tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1131.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199256532
- ISBN
- 9780199256532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.52
€ 126.52
paperback. Euripides' Alcestis is one of the dramatist's most brilliant - as well as most controversial - plays. This thoroughly annotated edition is designed to aid close reading, and to serve as an introduction to the play in its various aspects. Editor(s): Parker, L. P. E. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199254675
- ISBN
- 9780199254675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.29
€ 88.29
hardcover. An edition of Timotheus of Miletus' extant work, a Greek lyric poet of the 5th and 4th centuries BC and one of the most important poets of the period, includes the fragments surviving only through other author's work. The editor's "Persae" text was based on examination of the original papyrus. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199246946
- ISBN
- 9780199246946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 251.32
€ 251.32
Paperback. A collection of sixteen authoritative, and widely representative, articles on Homer's Odyssey that have appeared over the last 30 years. Papers have been selected for their clarity and accessibility, while a specially written introduction gives an overview of major strands in the interpretation of Homer in the second half of the 20th century. Editor(s): Doherty, Lillian Eileen. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199233335
- ISBN
- 9780199233335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 97.16
€ 97.16
Paperback. This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Editor(s): Robinson, Peter. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 175 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198778547
- ISBN
- 9780198778547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.77
€ 52.77