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Paperback. In his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Translator(s): Martin, Charles. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 173 x 32. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
580
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393925340
ISBN
9780393925340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Paperback. Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Translator(s): Innes, Mary M. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1955
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140440584
ISBN
9780140440584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674430662
ISBN
9780674430662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Hardback. Examines attitudes and uses of metaphor in Elizabethan poetry, concentrating on "The Faerie Queene". This work shows that the Elizabethan trust in the veracity of metaphor offers a possible explanation for the structure of certain literary forms of the period. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333613672
ISBN
9780333613672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalaa, 5 November 2010. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339563
ISBN
9781349339563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Hardcover. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230314221
ISBN
9780230314221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; CFG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349516674
ISBN
9781349516674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.10

Hardcover. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GJ; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403933454
ISBN
9781403933454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.12

Paperback. Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, withanalyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349321506
ISBN
9781349321506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251878
ISBN
9780230251878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445193
ISBN
9781885445193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Visible Ink Press United States
Number of pages
626
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578591374
ISBN
9781578591374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.91
€ 69.90

Hardcover. Happel claims that the Christian God is intimately involved at every level of physical and biological science. This volume examines the exploratory work of metaphors for time in astrophysical cosmology, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333714102
ISBN
9780333714102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.18

Paperback. Series: Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349403240
ISBN
9781349403240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Hardback. " Promoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10, 6 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416885
ISBN
9781421416885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.02

Hardback. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691629728
ISBN
9780691629728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.33
€ 148.73

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691614908
ISBN
9780691614908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.45
€ 46.96

Paperback. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: CFK; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356. 242 pages. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: CFK; DSA; HP. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 20. Weight: 350.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468013
ISBN
9780226468013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.27

paperback. Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Editor(s): Burrow, Colin. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140424447
ISBN
9780140424447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Hardback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126564
ISBN
9780231126564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.91
€ 90.75

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