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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Examines the literary and cultural production of the provincial capital of Poitiers from the late 1560s through the early 1580s. This study considers influences on the salon and the city such as contemporary codes of conduct, the court sessions, and the religious wars. Num Pages: 269 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139655
ISBN
9780874139655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.50

Hardback. Explores how from 1625 to 1725 cultural practices and discourses of sociability (rules for small-group discussion, friendship discourse, and patron-client relationships) determined the venues within which critical judgments were rendered, disseminated, and received. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139693
ISBN
9780874139693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.87

Hardback. Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) is famous as virtually the founder of Germanic philology. But he also composed, at the request of the Earl of Arundel, whom he served as librarian, an influential treatise on the art of painting as it is viewed in ancient literature. This book discusses his marginalia to the works of Philip Sidney. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139822
ISBN
9780874139822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.98

Paperback. Translator(s): Lehman, J.Lee. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH; VXFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877288947
ISBN
9780877288947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.26

Hardback. Editor(s): Khun, K. H. Series: Griffith Institute Publications. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HRCC1; HRCC8; HRCL; HRKP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Griffith Institute United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900416668
ISBN
9780900416668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.76

Hardback. Series: Griffith Institute Publications. Num Pages: 258 pages, plus 48 b/w pls, tbs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2AHA; 2CXC; DNF; DSBB; HRLP7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 310. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Griffith Institute United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900416750
ISBN
9780900416750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.63

Hardback. The Alexander Romance, a fabulous pseudo-history of the life of Alexander the Great compiled in late Antiquity, was one of the most popular secular texts in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its subsequent influence on the development of French and German literature has been significant. Num Pages: 428 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 160. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Pindar Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907132264
ISBN
9780907132264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.96

hardcover. Series: Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSB; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
447
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914913214
ISBN
9780914913214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 35 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1905
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
35
Condition
New
SKU
V9780918016058
ISBN
9780918016058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.84

Hardback. The humorous target of History of the Abderites is thc ignorance, backwardness, provinciality, bigotry, pedantry, lack of taste, and the sodden contentment with things as they are that Wieland found all around him. Translator(s): Dufner, Max. Num Pages: 327 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223256
ISBN
9780934223256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.13

Hardback. This book offers a balanced appraisal of Machiavelli's contributions to philosophy, presenting his views as consistently and plausibly as possible before analyzing them critically. The totality of Machiavelli's writings -- dramas, poems, letters, and political tracts -- were examined to create this portrait of a Renaissance humanist. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223423
ISBN
9780934223423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.43

Hardback. This book examines to what extent the Great War affected the works of Virginia Woolf and D.H.Lawrence. Wussow traces their views of social and historical events, as well as suggesting that violence and the structure of battle is evident in the pre-war writings. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223461
ISBN
9780934223461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223812
ISBN
9780934223812
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Collegiate Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939693221
ISBN
9780939693221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.94

Hardback. Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times. Editor(s): Evans, G. Blakemore. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; G; YQE. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941533133
ISBN
9780941533133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.49

hardcover. This study places Djuna Barnes's early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer, especially in her attention to the search for identity and to the conflict between individual values and those of society. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press United States
Number of pages
118
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941664172
ISBN
9780941664172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.75

Hardback. Focuses on unpublished manuscripts and closely examines Dos Passos's first novels. This book reveals how his practical aesthetics and use of myth come together in a triumph of form that presents an important vision of America. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941664189
ISBN
9780941664189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Pace University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780944473009
ISBN
9780944473009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.32

Hardback. This book demonstrates that Fitzgerald's narrative is riddled with chronological incoherences, improbabilities, and flat contractions -- almost none of which, surprisingly, have been previously noted. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636380
ISBN
9780945636380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.99

Hardback. This study examines the ways in which Willa Cather handles landscape and exile in her fiction. Cather's characters are intricately connected to the places they inhibit, and they are often banished from a native or authentic landscape. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636564
ISBN
9780945636564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.49

Hardback. This study represents the definitive work on origins as they appear in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. The author argues that the hallmark of the poet's vision is the presence of his Pennsylvania provincialism and the increasing significance he attached to his roots as he grew older. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636793
ISBN
9780945636793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.30

Hardback. This book provides a thematic approach to all of Lawrence Durrell's major novels--The Black Book, The Alexandria Quartet, The Revolt of Aphrodite, and The Avignon Quintet--and argues for Durrell as a central voice in twentieth-century British literature. Num Pages: 183 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636991
ISBN
9780945636991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.62

Paperback. This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field. Series: Book History Series. Num Pages: 117 pages, 16 x colour, 9 x black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DN; DSBF; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Edward Everett Root United Kingdom
Edition
2 ed
Number of pages
117
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954207533
ISBN
9780954207533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Odamtten, Vincent O. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954702380
ISBN
9780954702380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.33

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