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William Fitzgerald

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages: 272
Condition: New
SKU: V9780226299495
ISBN: 9780226299495

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Genres Rediscovered – Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, a...

Anna Maria Wasyl

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
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SKU: V9788323330899
ISBN: 9788323330899

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The Clerical Dilemma: Peter of Blois and Literate Culture in the Twelf...

Hardcover. Peter of Blois pursued the life of a twelfth-century intellectual with vigor and passion tinged with anxiety. This book offers a study of Peter of Blois' life, thought, and writings. It explores how Peter brought classical, patristic, monastic, and scholastic traditions into an uneasy synthesis, and deployed them in letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; BGL; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Edition: New
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SKU: V9780813216768
ISBN: 9780813216768

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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180–1280)

Theodore M. Andersson

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360. 248 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight: 394.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of pages: 248
Condition: New
SKU: V9780801477829
ISBN: 9780801477829

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Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic

Christopher Prendergast

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of pages: 232
Condition: New
SKU: V9780691155203
ISBN: 9780691155203

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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hardcover. Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's multifarious interests. This edition contains his complete poetical works. It is intended for historians, editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. The textual information also reveals changes in such areas as linguistic and grammatical usage. Editor(s): Mays, J. C. C. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 1528 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 91. Weight in Grams: 2028.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press United States
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 1528
Condition: New
SKU: V9780691004846
ISBN: 9780691004846

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Persons and Things

Barbara Johnson

Paperback. Deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. This title revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, and fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages: 272
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674046283
ISBN: 9780674046283

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In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Do...

Barry McCrea

Paperback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 280
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SKU: V9780231157636
ISBN: 9780231157636

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Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

Kenneth Goldsmith

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 272
Condition: New
SKU: V9780231149907
ISBN: 9780231149907

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The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence

Stephen Burt

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

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Georges Bataille - Literature and Evil - 9780141195575 - 9780141195575

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Literature and Evil

Georges Bataille

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression. Translator(s): Hamilton, Alastair. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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SKU: 9780141195575
ISBN: 9780141195575

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Frank Kermode - Shakespeare´s Language - 9780140285925 - 9780140285925

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Shakespeare´s Language

Frank Kermode

Paperback. The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New Ed
Condition: New
SKU: 9780140285925
ISBN: 9780140285925

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Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend

Marianne Kalinke (Ed.)

Paperback. The Tristan Legend. Series: Arthurian Archives. 306 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Kalinke, Marianne E. Text with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DN; DSBB; DSK; JFHF. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 17. Weight: 436.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Edition: Reprint
Number of pages: 306
Condition: New
SKU: V9781843843054
ISBN: 9781843843054

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Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook

David Galef

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 160
Condition: New
SKU: V9780231179683
ISBN: 9780231179683