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Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922553
ISBN
9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.08

Hardback. It seeks to restore poetry to its rightful place as a crucial source for interpreting the rich cultural and intellectual life of the era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887222
ISBN
9780801887222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.52
€ 65.46

Hardcover. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 illustrations, including a four-page colour plates section. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 247 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198718352
ISBN
9780198718352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.92

Paperback. .". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics.". essential reading for anyone interesting in.. the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts." Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Edition
Midland Book ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253203182
ISBN
9780253203182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.29

Hardback. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403980786
ISBN
9781403980786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Paperback. In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538829
ISBN
9781349538829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.14

paperback. BIC Classification: DN; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
International Publishers Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780717807390
ISBN
9780717807390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.58

Perfect Paperback. Editor(s): Hinshaw, Robert. Num Pages: 393 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Daimon Verlag Switzerland
Number of pages
393
Condition
New
SKU
V9783856305406
ISBN
9783856305406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.68

paperback. Features the play "Robbers" that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and "Wallenstein" that explores a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Translator(s): Lamport, F.J. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780140443684
ISBN
9780140443684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853817229
ISBN
9781853817229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. Editor(s): Panek, Jennifer. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393932775
ISBN
9780393932775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant, shop-keepers - and depicts bustling city life. Editor(s): Knowles, Sir James. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540105
ISBN
9780199540105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. A hilarious city comedy by the authors of A Mad World, My Masters and The Shoemaker's Holiday. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848424005
ISBN
9781848424005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
British Library Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0015940
ISBN
9780712309738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. An international anthology of Roma poetry and prose. In this text, the lives of the contributors are told in brief biographical notes reflecting the many roads followed by the Roma in coming to terms with modern society. Editor(s): Hancock, Ian; Dowd, Siobhan; Djuric, Rajko. Series: PEN American Center's threatened literature series. Num Pages: 170 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: DC; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900458903
ISBN
9780900458903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.58

paperback. A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781584657040
ISBN
9781584657040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.45

Paperback. In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, this book offers a description of the poverty he witnessed there. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185293
ISBN
9780141185293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardcover. This is the first collection of the poems of Mary Austin (1868-1934), a prominent environmental, feminist, and western writer of the American Southwest. Editor(s): Warren, James Perrin. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633457
ISBN
9780815633457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.35

Paperback. This volume covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the "golden age" of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars", and "E.T.") would soon dominate box offices. Editor(s): Gunn, James E. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842458
ISBN
9780810842458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.46

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0016021
ISBN
9780856405761
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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