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Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009639
ISBN
9780674009639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 black-and-white photographs and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520294875
ISBN
9780520294875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Perfect Paperback. Num Pages: 107 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Daimon Verlag Switzerland
Number of pages
107
Condition
New
SKU
V9783856306366
ISBN
9783856306366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 72 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823271153
ISBN
9780823271153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.76

Hardback. This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music. Editor(s): Semenza, Gregory M. Colon. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 242 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100282
ISBN
9780230100282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349344734
ISBN
9781349344734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Hardcover. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230343641
ISBN
9780230343641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287758
ISBN
9781349287758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel. Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103214
ISBN
9780230103214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Hardback. This book traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728294
ISBN
9780804728294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.63

Paperback. This book traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
No Earlier Edition Stated
SKU
V9780804728300
ISBN
9780804728300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573680
ISBN
9780230573680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768757
ISBN
9780804768757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.61

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816619818
ISBN
9780816619818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636399
ISBN
9780691636399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.07

Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768764
ISBN
9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.39

hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780761820130
ISBN
9780761820130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.24

Paperback. Considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book draws on social theorists such as Kant, Weber, Simmel, and Elias to explore the connection between social and literary form. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268031060
ISBN
9780268031060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. The displacement in science of positivist notions of observation by a realist model of knowledge provided inspiration for Japanese writers. This work looks at the ideological incarnations of scientific realism in modernist works. It focuses on the struggle of science and art to reclaim the invisible as an object of representation and belief. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027947
ISBN
9780674027947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. This book examines Mandelstam's legacy and lays the groundwork for approaching modernist Russian poetry as a charismatic institution. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520269163
ISBN
9780520269163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

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