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Paperback. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304. Essays on Writers and Writing. 218 pages. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275263
ISBN
9780520275263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. This work considers Coleridge's relationship to his near contemporary, Friedrich Schiller. Combining close readings with historical research, this book challenges readers to rethink the radical potential of idealist aesthetics. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333749364
ISBN
9780333749364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Hardcover. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 26. Series: Irish Literacy Studies Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004306
ISBN
9780389207146
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. In History's Grip is a study of three novels by Philip Roth--American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain--showing that they are built upon the notion of history as disruptive for individuals, cities, and nations and exploring their place in Roth's career. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781824
ISBN
9780804781824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.92

Paperback. Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's inability to understand it. It is the purpose of this book to trace the development of his thinking via a chronological analysis of his most important works. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349124855
ISBN
9781349124855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.42

Paperback. This Companion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement, with contributions from fourteen leading scholars. Editor(s): Levenson, Michael H. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 344 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 476. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 342 pages, 7 b/w illus. Editor(s): Levenson, Michael H. This 2011 Companion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement, with contributions from fourteen leading scholars. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight: 544.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
342
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521281256
ISBN
9780521281256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

hardcover. "The Burlington Magazine" has an international reputation for publishing writing on all aspects of art history. In celebration of its centenary, an art historian has compiled this selection of significant articles, reviews, editorials and obituaries to appear in it during the 20th century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 illustrations, 45 colour pl bibliog references. BIC Classification: AC; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 270 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1450. Good clean copy, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Yale University Press London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001262
ISBN
9780300099119
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Presents the original text and English translations of the medieval and post-medieval records, poems and chronicles relating to Welsh revolutionary Owain Glyndwr (1357?-1415). Notes and essays on the historical, social and literary context provide up-to-date perspectives and commentary on the man and his times. Editor(s): Livingston, Michael; Bollard, John K. Series: Liverpool Historical Casebooks. Num Pages: 640 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFW; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1148.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898836
ISBN
9780859898836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. A collection of poems of the author whose genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, and poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224080446
ISBN
9780224080446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been the author's home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. In this book, imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911214083
ISBN
9781911214083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working life he was a writer and producer for BBC radio. His death in 1963 was sudden and unexpected. Editor(s): Longley, Michael. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571226764
ISBN
9780571226764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

paperback. The author is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twin's death a mythic dimension. In this book, the poems encompass birth as well as death, childhood and age, nature and art, the animal and human worlds, tenderness and violence. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy. Covers showing a little shelf wear, otherwise as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031159
ISBN
9780224101684
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 18.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801964
ISBN
9780875801964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.66

Hardcover. Why did Joseph Conrad avoid using English, except when it came to the arduous task of writing fiction? And how do we account for his extensive "borrowing" from French writers? This psycholinguistic examination delves into the creative mind of Conrad. Series: EEM Social Science Monographs. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 2AGP; CFD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880339841
ISBN
9780880339841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.04

Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338970
ISBN
9780822338970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Hardback. Representations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to 20th-century literature and film. Editor(s): Lundblad, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474400022
ISBN
9781474400022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 109.07

Paperback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349073375
ISBN
9781349073375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.14

Paperback. "Bog/Paperback 96 lch. Scéal gaisce agus troda aigne, gan srian, gan bhac. Ar dtús, is é an pota draíochta féin atá i réim, ag déanamh slada ar lucht tábhairne, ar shagairt pharóiste, ar lucht suirí agus ar ghnáthdhaoine. Is é Mac Scaidín féin an fear gaisce, an laoch nach gcúlaíonn roimh an mbás ná roimh dhúshlán ar bith, a bhfuil grá cíocrach aige do chailíní óga áille na cruinne. A prizewinning four-act play produced with great success in the Taibhdhearc. An adventure story of mental conflict where nothing is sacred."
Publisher
Cló Iar-Chonnachta
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
An Chéad Chló
Condition
New
SKU
190069316X
ISBN
9781900693165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.81

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474425599
ISBN
9781474425599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. The figure of contamination as developed in this book offers a new perspective of negativity which questions the current influence of Hegelian dialectics in contemporary theory and philosophy. The book also offers a critical introduction to the critique of dialectics to which it at the same time contributes as an original piece of research. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474411363
ISBN
9781474411363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.33

Paperback. influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813221168
ISBN
9780813221168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.53

Hardback. Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4--1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar in Italy. Later poets imitated him in vernacular love poetry, especially Ronsard. This edition contains Marullus' complete Latin poetry. All of these works appear in English translation for the first time. Translator(s): Fantazzi, Charles. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055063
ISBN
9780674055063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878300921
ISBN
9780878300921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Eco-poetic innovations and ecstatic meditations from a founding member of the Beat Generation, Michael McClure. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872867284
ISBN
9780872867284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.38

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