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hardcover. This text draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731065
- ISBN
- 9780804731065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.84
€ 88.84
Paperback. Approach places, times and states of mind in a mosaic of knowledge, invention, memory and entertainment with this collection of poems. The personal and the public interact in many poems and others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside mythological motifs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 109.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547528
- ISBN
- 9781857547528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.53
€ 21.99
€ 18.53
Paperback. Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception. Series: New British Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001800
- ISBN
- 9780230001800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.72
€ 40.72
paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 115 x 11. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984115563
- ISBN
- 9780984115563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.36
€ 15.99
€ 14.36
Hardback. After an introduction to patents, their historical development and their current characteristics, this book describes the uses to which patents can be put, followed by details of their availability. Num Pages: 546 pages, figs. BIC Classification: DSB; LNR; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 546
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810828797
- ISBN
- 9780810828797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.90
€ 164.90
Paperback. Editor(s): MacGowan, Christopher J. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811212984
- ISBN
- 9780811212984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.18
€ 18.99
€ 18.18
Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white line drawings, charts. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935171
- ISBN
- 9780813935171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.87
€ 87.87
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white line drawings, maps, charts. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935188
- ISBN
- 9780813935188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.97
€ 38.97
Paperback. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). This book examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJWWM; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846316869
- ISBN
- 9781846316869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.34
€ 52.34
Paperback. Editor(s): McNulty, Eugene; Ni Ghairbhi, Roisin. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; AN; DD; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- GILL & MAC MILLAN
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716531661
- ISBN
- 9780716531661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.84
€ 25.99
€ 19.84
Hardcover. This study examines the novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with minor shelf wear and some edgewear to DW
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001347
- ISBN
- 9780333388693
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, the author creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero - his father. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099914303
- ISBN
- 9780099914303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Pictoral wrapper with woodcuts reproduced from John Derrick's The Image of Irelande, 1581. 1,000 copies printed. Very light foxing to page edges. Excellent condition. In protective plastic wrapper. Keywords: Irish Poetry
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Dolmen Press
- Publication date
- 1966
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0076431
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 85.00
€ 85.00
Hardcover. In this study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008618
- ISBN
- 9780674008618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.34
€ 54.99
€ 46.34
Patterns in Language: An introduction to language and literary style: ...
Wareing, Shan; Thornborrow, Joanna
paperback. Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on recurring linguistic patterns used by writers. Series: Interface. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415140645
- ISBN
- 9780415140645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.11
€ 61.11
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epit=edeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. Editor(s): Moreno, Alfonso; Thomas, Rosalind. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668885
- ISBN
- 9780199668885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 168.77
€ 168.77
Paperback. Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll, Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. This book demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 122 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826427922
- ISBN
- 9780826427922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.64
€ 13.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Jesus did not die on the cross but was rescued by his brother James and by Peter. But they prefer to keep Paul in the dark because, although he is mistakenly preaching that Christ rose again, at least it gets the Christian message out there.. Now, Peter finally tells Paul the truth before they go to their deaths as the first Christian Martyrs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854598868
- ISBN
- 9781854598868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.33
€ 12.33
Hardback. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. Editor(s): Mangan, Timothy; Herrmann, Irene. Num Pages: 310 pages, 1 music example. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236554
- ISBN
- 9780520236554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.66
€ 84.37
€ 64.66
Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883026
- ISBN
- 9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.21€ 57.22
€ 60.21
€ 57.22
Paperback. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 242 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241688
- ISBN
- 9780520241688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904301400
- ISBN
- 9781904301400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.92
€ 12.99
€ 11.92