Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers. Editor(s): Raffel, Professor Burton (Distinguished Arts and Humanities,Professor of English, University of Louisiana). Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300108071
- ISBN
- 9780300108071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.71
€ 15.99
€ 12.71
Hardcover. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180 220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280." Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 501
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603848145
- ISBN
- 9781603848145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 72.48
€ 94.73
€ 72.48
Paperback. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 360 pages, 18 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159546
- ISBN
- 9780691159546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
€ 33.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. Baldo is a descendant of French royalty who starts out as something of a juvenile delinquent. This poem narrates episodes that include imprisonment; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons; and a journey to the underworld. It provides the English translation of this ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance. Translator(s): Mullaney, Ann E. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031241
- ISBN
- 9780674031241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.83
€ 40.99
€ 33.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 35 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300218459
- ISBN
- 9780300218459
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.49
€ 26.99
€ 20.49
Hardback. The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD; JF; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487501105
- ISBN
- 9781487501105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.84
€ 72.84
Paperback. American Literature in Context after 1929 explores thehistorical events and literary movements that shaped Americanliterature from the Great Depression onward. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405186001
- ISBN
- 9781405186001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.77
€ 29.77
Hardcover. Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of diverse approaches to it. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139900
- ISBN
- 9781571139900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. Editor(s): Manning, Gideon; Klestinec, Cynthia. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HPS; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319565132
- ISBN
- 9783319565132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.57
€ 200.57
Hardback. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This work talks about this Ciceronian controversy. Editor(s): DellaNeva, JoAnn. Translator(s): Duvick, Brian. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025202
- ISBN
- 9780674025202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.07
€ 40.99
€ 34.07
Hardback. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421346
- ISBN
- 9781421421346
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Condition: New
€ 50.92€ 47.17
€ 50.92
€ 47.17
Paperback. Series: Comics Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; JFCA; WHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813590455
- ISBN
- 9780813590455
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107085206
- ISBN
- 9781107085206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.93
€ 98.93
Hardcover. The first volume of a major two-volume study centres of the fortunes of Michel de Montaigne's Essays in both the early-modern (1580-1725) and the modern period (1900-2000). This volume examines how the Essays made Montaigne a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his peers. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; 3J; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198123743
- ISBN
- 9780198123743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.40
€ 188.40
Hardcover. A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846257
- ISBN
- 9781603846257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Paperback. In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead. Translator(s): Cooperson, Michael. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21 cm. BIC Classification: 1HB; 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629313
- ISBN
- 9780815629313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.37
€ 26.37
Hardcover. Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camoes's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of "spiritual" or allegorical scriptural exegesis in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663145
- ISBN
- 9781855663145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing P...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Paperback. Are the "culture wars" over? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? Gayatari Spivak poses these questions and attempts to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic, tracking the figure of the "native informant". Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674177642
- ISBN
- 9780674177642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.60
€ 45.99
€ 40.60
Hardback. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Keats. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138778320
- ISBN
- 9781138778320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.35
€ 51.35
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138020740
- ISBN
- 9781138020740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.19€ 84.69
€ 136.19
€ 84.69