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Hardcover. Brilliant portrait of a time and place that launched American Bohemia and liberated the genius of Walt Whitman Series: A Merloyd Lawrence Book. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 pages of b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306822261
ISBN
9780306822261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent to The Face and Dazed & Confused. He has been commissioned to write poetry, documentaries and plays for Radio 1 and Radio 4. This book deals with his work. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 89.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841950013
ISBN
9781841950013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Hardback. This book is a comparative approach that treats the formidable psychosexual and gothic content, as phrased through a rhetoric of rebellion, death, and illness, in the works of Ugo Tarchetti and others. Del PrincipeOs psychoanalytic-feminist reinterpretation illuminates the scapigliati as precursors to modernism and the avant-garde. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471274
ISBN
9781611471274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.26

Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wings Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916727987
ISBN
9780916727987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.46

Paperback. This is the first book to collect new essays written by multiple scholars that examine a Chicana or Latina author s entire oeuvre. Focusing on the work of Helena Maria Viramontes, a scholar, critic, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, it also addresses the evolution of the Chicana image." Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816521364
ISBN
9780816521364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.45

Paperback. "ReCalling Early Canada" is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. Editor(s): Blair, Jennifer; Coleman, Daniel; Higginson, Kate; York, Lorraine M. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644435
ISBN
9780888644435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.39

Hardback. An examination of Sophocles' "Antigone" in the context of its setting in 5th-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of 5th-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847692163
ISBN
9780847692163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.67

Paperback. Reflecting both the raw and lyrical, this volume contains stage scripts of "Song from a Forgotten City" and "Gas Station Angel" and the film shooting script of "House of America" by Ed Thomas, as well as critical essays by Marc Evans and Jeni Williams and a conversation with David Adams. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrationsports. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638249
ISBN
9781902638249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: 754 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 185 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1960.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
754
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763505321
ISBN
9788763505321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.14
€ 80.18

Paperback. This work considers key aspects of Greek and Roman culture and discusses how they have been reshaped and used in modern drama, film and poetry. Series: New Surveys in the Classics S. Num Pages: 134 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; APFA; DSBB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxf.U.P. United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198528654
ISBN
9780198528654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.56

paperback. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians. Editor(s): Machor, James L.; Goldstein, Philip. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415926508
ISBN
9780415926508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 120 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Diaphanes AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037345894
ISBN
9783037345894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.06

Paperback. In Rechnitz, a chorus of messengers reports on the circumstances of the massacre of 180 Jews, an actual historical event that took place near the Austrian/Hungarian border town of Rechnitz. The author brings us a comedy of economics, where the babble and media spin of spectators leave small investors alienated. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 halftones, 1 dvd. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Pap/DVD
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422255
ISBN
9780857422255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 35.60

paperback. Explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which we first named the world. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112. 80 pages, Illustrations. Explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which we first named the world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 6. Weight: 116.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857549881
ISBN
9781857549881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Hardcover. Non-fiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" of the 1960s, but this volume identifies 11 major works not usually thought of as nonficiton novels, such as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" to create a new definition of the genre. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322025
ISBN
9780820322025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.45

Hardcover. This edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of several sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 470 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DQ; HRG; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1102.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009394
ISBN
9780674009394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.34

Hardcover. Introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, the author provides a systematic examination of the array of religious impulses in Persian verse. She views poetry as the site of the emergence of the self and the sacred. Series Editor(s): Denny, Frederick M. Series: Studies in Comparative Religion. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570036224
ISBN
9781570036224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.27

Paperback. An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. This book explores that scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420923
ISBN
9780857420923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.15

Hardcover. Set during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Reckless is a compelling novel of life in the shadow of impending nuclear war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781782066422
ISBN
9781782066422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Martha Silano's newest collection of cosmic lingo tango Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780989979719
ISBN
9780989979719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.05

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