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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

€ 51.99
€ 40.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. Dimension: 178 x 114. Weight in Grams: 60.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811222761
ISBN
9780811222761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.85

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

€ 138.85

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

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

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
€ 34.51

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

€ 10.22

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

€ 19.99
€ 17.57

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

€ 17.99
€ 15.62

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

€ 10.22

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

€ 10.27

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

€ 64.24
€ 49.96

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
€ 37.31

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
€ 13.00

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
€ 11.32

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
€ 12.16

paperback. Editor(s): Bax, Martin. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 159 x 5. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ambit Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900055096
ISBN
9780900055096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.18

Paperback. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the 'mainstream' canon and other 'minority' literatures? This book explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015415
ISBN
9780691015415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.56
€ 41.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Penguin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143108047
ISBN
9780143108047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. Paperback in good to very condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
SKU
KRF0020454
ISBN
9780140119695
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf and reading wear.
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dell Pub Co
Publication date
1988
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTG0009587
ISBN
9780440201106
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Paperback in good to very condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KRF0020467
ISBN
9780140119695
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains in good condition
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Dell Pub Co
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KSG0010913
ISBN
9780440201106
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. * Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405113885
ISBN
9781405113885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.85

Hardback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217114
ISBN
9780631217114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.54

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