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Hardback. A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literary studies. Editor(s): Behdad, Ali; Thomas, Dominic. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 540 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 257 x 184 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
540
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405198790
ISBN
9781405198790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 203.97

Paperback. Situating the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems - in the larger context of Sufi, Bhakti and Sant poetry in medieval India, the author explores their history, characteristics, themes and prosody, as well as the unique Khojki script in which they were recorded. Series: Ismaili Heritage Series. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; DSC; GTB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860648281
ISBN
9781860648281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.60

Hardcover. This work looks at the "ginans", a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages, written over several centuries. It examines their characteristics and explores the Khojki script in which they were written, also noting their continuing influence. Series: Ismaili Heritage Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 2B; DSB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860647581
ISBN
9781860647581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 49.51

Paperback. Explores form, style, life, love, death, mortality, immortality and what art and writing can mean. Part fiction, part essay, this book is a revelation of what writing can do. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959572
ISBN
9780241959572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910974230
ISBN
9781910974230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. * A definitive collection of 101 short pieces from 1900 to 2000 this is an invaluable volume of women's writing this century Editor(s): Smith, Ali; Boddy, Kasia; Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 528 pages, Integrated: 10, Int. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860498428
ISBN
9781860498428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002855
ISBN
9780241143469
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Anchor Books
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400032181
ISBN
9781400032181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.64

Paperback. Candid, poignant and intimate, Ali Taylor's play Cathy offers a timely reflection on the lives of those at the sharp end of economic austerity, faced with impossible choices and an uncertain future. Inspired by Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach's pioneering television drama. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848426283
ISBN
9781848426283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. "Overspill". Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848420311
ISBN
9781848420311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Features 101 poems, which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. This book includes poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W H Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery, and many others. Editor(s): Oswald, Alice. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571218578
ISBN
9780571218578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

hardcover. In 1818 London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half the essay-circle met to read aloud and criticise one another's writings. The "Mental Exercises" they produced are a record of the life and social ideas of artisans in Regency London. Editor(s): Jenkins, Alice. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311406
ISBN
9781846311406
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Kane, Alice. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551110479
ISBN
9781551110479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 44.22

Hardback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726146
ISBN
9780804726146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.92

Paperback. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; HBJD; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521264
ISBN
9781487521264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, this title tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their deaths. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226102702
ISBN
9780226102702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.26

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481556
ISBN
9781611481556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.68

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Eyewear Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911335207
ISBN
9781911335207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Hardback. IN Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780857423047
ISBN
9780857423047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.22

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840029499
ISBN
9781840029499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

Hardcover. "Bound in pictoral green cloth with white title on front and spine. Cloth is worn at spine ends and spine edges, corners slightly bumped and worn, slight staining to cover, page edges uncut, endpages slightly stained, inscription on front endpage." Keywords: Irish Fiction
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Century Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1902
SKU
KHS0077908
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 38.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Entwistle, Alice. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seren
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781722022
ISBN
9781781722022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633205
ISBN
9780838633205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.05

Hardcover. 197pp. "Bound in pictoral green cloth with white title on front and spine. Spine ends and edges slightly worn, corners slightly bumped and worn, very slight staining to cover, side and bottom page edges uncut, endpages slightly stained, name on front endpage." Keywords: Irish Fiction
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Century Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1903
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KHS0077909
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 38.00
€ 36.00

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