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Hardcover. Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBTB; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512246
ISBN
9781137512246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.04

Hardback. According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192945
ISBN
9781845192945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Paperback. Hallucination was always the ghost storys elephant in the room. Even before the vogue for psychical research and spiritualism began to influence writers at the end of the nineteenth century, tales of horror and the supernatural, of ghosts and demons, had been haunted by the possibility of some grand deception by the senses. But what is .. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196776
ISBN
9781845196776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.16

Paperback. The author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244884
ISBN
9780226244884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.41

Paperback. Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106. 61 pages. Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 156 x 216 x 5. Weight: 106.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
61
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771926
ISBN
9781847771926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.80

Paperback. An intriguing and culturally diverse group of voices exploring the inner life. Editor(s): Minnick, Norman. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935210078
ISBN
9781935210078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.89

Hardback. .
Publisher
Modern Humanities Research Association
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781881590
ISBN
9781781881590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; YQEF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551116051
ISBN
9781551116051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.71

Paperback. A book of poems that takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. It includes lyrics and satires that dance in the spaces that open up between intention and expression, the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 150 x 6. Weight in Grams: 110. 61 pages. A book of poems that takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. It includes lyrics and satires that dance in the spaces that open up between intention and expression, the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 214 x 150 x 6. Weight: 104.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
61
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771391
ISBN
9781847771391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.71

Paperback. An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719097614
ISBN
9780719097614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.73

Paperback. Between Two Shores / Idir Dha Chladach Series: Reimagining Ireland. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436. Galway. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
SKU
KOG0005815
ISBN
9783034301442
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 32.00

Hardcover. Between Two Fires examines the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War, revealing patterns of influence previously uncharted. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198744436
ISBN
9780198744436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.95

hardcover. Translator(s): Hinton, Suzanne. Series: Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Flambard Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226889
ISBN
9781873226889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.36

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

Hardback. Here are the best of letters written to and from the editors of Poetry magazine (which T. S. Eliot called "an American institution") from 1962 through 2002, affording the reader a first-person account of the second revolution in American poetry. Virtually all of the more than five hundred letters have never been printed before. Editor(s): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566636568
ISBN
9781566636568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.72

Paperback. A wonderful collection by one of Japan's most beloved zen poets. Series: Companions for the Journey. Num Pages: 96 pages, 20 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935210054
ISBN
9781935210054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.96

Hardcover. Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America. This book offers a literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781382882
ISBN
9781781382882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.97

Hardback. An investigation of English writing in seventeenth-century Ireland, and its connections to Shakespeare, Sidney and Milton. Num Pages: 310 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635. Fine in fine dust wrapper, showing light shelf and reading wear. Remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0024930
ISBN
9780521843027
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 30.00

Hardback. The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756877
ISBN
9780804756877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.44

Paperback. Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, the author argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. He highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145662
ISBN
9780691145662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Several critics have been intrigued by the gap between late Victorian poetry and the more 'modern' poetry of the 1920s. This book aims to get to grips with the watershed by analysing one school of poetry and criticism written in the first decade of the 20th century until the end of the First World War. Num Pages: 193 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776742836
ISBN
9788776742836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785822
ISBN
9780804785822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.12

Paperback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSA; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785839
ISBN
9780804785839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811222723
ISBN
9780811222723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.96

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