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Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619081
- ISBN
- 9780230619081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry over the years with his mischievous, satirical fables. This book plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of Darwinian evolution - on the occasion of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "Origin of Species". Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104. 72 pages. John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry over the years with his mischievous, satirical fables. This book plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of Darwinian evolution - on the occasion of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "Origin of Species". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 7. Weight: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852248222
- ISBN
- 9781852248222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.37
€ 14.99
€ 12.37
Paperback. Agard puts on the mask of medieval Jewish rabbi Moses Maimonides (from Moorish Spain) in provocative poems that resonate with the current climate of extremism. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 234 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373096
- ISBN
- 9781780373096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.48
€ 13.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Includes poetry from "We Brits" that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes "Weblines" that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 1. Weight in Grams: 332. Selected Poems. 160 pages. Includes poetry from "We Brits" that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes "Weblines" that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 1. Weight: 328.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852248239
- ISBN
- 9781852248239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.48
€ 16.99
€ 13.48
Hardback. Satoru Saito examines the similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that interactions between the genres were critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided a framework through which to examine and critique Japan's literary formations and its modernizing society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065864
- ISBN
- 9780674065864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.24
€ 44.99
€ 38.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; AN; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231172264
- ISBN
- 9780231172264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.65€ 51.34
€ 64.65
€ 51.34
Hardcover. Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented same-sex desire through the encryption of personal references directed towards coterie audiences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298378
- ISBN
- 9780230298378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardback. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this work argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 265 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740149
- ISBN
- 9780333740149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Paperback. MPT's summer Issue Between Clay and Star features a focus on new Romanian poetry: new translations of Liliana Ursu, Dan Sociu, Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum, and a conversation between Dan Sociu and the younger poet Oana Sanziana Marian. Also a long poem by Aime Cesaire, poems by Khlebnikov, Bonnefoy and the Uruguayan poet Laura Cesarco Eglin. Illustrator(s): Mellor, Lucy. Editor(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Series: Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957235434
- ISBN
- 9780957235434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.39
€ 10.39
Paperback. MPT's Spring Issue Strange Tracks features a focus on new Dutch poetry:new work by Toon Tellegen, Ester Naomi Perquin and Menno Wigman and an interview with Tellegen about his prize-winning collection Raptors. Poems by Zhang Zao, Valerie Rouzeau, versions of riddles and poems from The Exeter Book and more make up the first issue of the new look MPT Illustrator(s): Perienne, Christian. Editor(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Series: Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957235410
- ISBN
- 9780957235410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.39
€ 10.39
Paperback. Contains poems, which explore the mysterious solitudes of individual lives. The book opens with a sequence written at the Pushkin family estate. The great Russian poet, setting out to St Petersburg, turns back when a hare runs in front of his horse - an act which saves his life. The poems reflect on such chance or fated moments where paths cross. Num Pages: 70 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 70
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903039809
- ISBN
- 9781903039809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.49
€ 18.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. Evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. This title traces the shapes that they leave through folk song, lament and lyric poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906188023
- ISBN
- 9781906188023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.58
€ 21.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. 'The Constellation' is the special 'Poetry International Festival' issue of MPT. Featuring the powerful and moving exchange of poems and letters between Bertolt Brecht and his lover and collaborator Margarete Steffin, new poems by Christine Marendon and Nikola Madzirov and responses to Rilke. Also raw new poems from Iran, China, Somalia and Turkey Editor(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Series: Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957235496
- ISBN
- 9780957235496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.39
€ 10.39
Paperback. The definitive collection of jazz fiction Editor(s): Feinstein, Sascha; Rife, David. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221377
- ISBN
- 9780253221377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.25
€ 35.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal to anyone who wants to explore theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective. Editor(s): Bru, Sascha; De Bruyn, Ben; Delville, Michel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748699254
- ISBN
- 9780748699254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.39
€ 40.99
€ 35.39
Hardback. Contains over 600 entries describing novels that have theatrical settings or in which characters work in the theatre. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832510
- ISBN
- 9780810832510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.40
€ 148.40
Paperback. The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600-41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This book features a collection of Sulam's writings including letters, sonnets, and a manifesto. Editor(s): Harran, Don. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226779898
- ISBN
- 9780226779898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
€ 52.99
€ 41.39
Hardcover. Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction. Num Pages: 223 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228122
- ISBN
- 9780230228122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935898
- ISBN
- 9780813935898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.59
€ 83.59
Paperback. States that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Revealing that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue, this book offers a study of both British literature and colonialism. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923147
- ISBN
- 9780226923147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Taking into account Blake's unique brand of literary and artistic production, Makdisi challenges the idea that to understand Blake one must assimilate him within the radical struggle against the order of the old regime. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226502601
- ISBN
- 9780226502601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403919137
- ISBN
- 9781403919137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.60
€ 116.60
Hardcover. This book is a timely reassessment of Byron's legacy, focusing on the ever-present figure of the Byronic hero in the fiction of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, together with screen versions of their novels. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574397
- ISBN
- 9780230574397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. Six characters's search for jobs, commitment, love and friendship is transformed by a night out. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840021103
- ISBN
- 9781840021103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.42
€ 17.42