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Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763540612
ISBN
9788763540612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.14
€ 40.81

paperback. Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. "A lively and slashing critic..reading him one feels windows opening, clouds passing, sunlight, and a fresh breeze entering the room."-Joseph Epstein. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566635578
ISBN
9781566635578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.05

Hardcover. In this sparkling collection edited by Robert Phillips, Shapiro's most trenchant writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters are once again available. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 33. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566635561
ISBN
9781566635561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.89

Hardcover. The book focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21th centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. Series: Journal of Beckett Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748697328
ISBN
9780748697328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.66
€ 103.50

Paperback. This book seeks quite simply to share the many experiences of Shakespeare's Globe Education team of their active approach to teaching students of all ages. The book mixes some theory with lots of examples and practical ideas teachers can take and use for their own lessons. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b/w in-text photos. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408156841
ISBN
9781408156841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.92

hardcover. This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472578
ISBN
9781611472578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.64

Hardback. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, the essays in this book focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood and popular religion. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023932
ISBN
9780674023932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. Examining how ideas about species, sexuality, and gender link to 20th- and 21st-century literary texts, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complicated yet evocative relationship between animals and humans within a literary context. Contributors discuss writers like Franz Kafka, J. R. Ackerley, and Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137520661
ISBN
9781137520661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147873
ISBN
9780231147873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. First new hardback edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and with plastic book wrap. DW faded and showing light shelf wear. Page edges browned, otherwise a fine copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KSG0015926
ISBN
9780571225668
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 75.00

Paperback. A collection of short stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571237852
ISBN
9780571237852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. 29 pp. Stiff card covers, almost as new. This is the lecture given by the poet in Stockholm as part of his award of the Nobel Prize for literature. Keywords: Poetry -Seamus Heaney
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Gallery Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS0040053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 175.00

Paperback. To find out more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 99 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Number of pages
99
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556128059
ISBN
9781556128059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.41

Paperback. .
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845233006
ISBN
9781845233006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.35

Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801443848
ISBN
9780801443848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816665266
ISBN
9780816665266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. This study of John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) looks at the work of this leading member of the newly emergent intelligentsia in 19th century Trinidad. It puts his texts in context with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists and Victorian intellectuals. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921433
ISBN
9780813921433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Paperback. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Editor(s): Bauer, Ralph; Mazzotti, Jose Antonio. Num Pages: 520 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807859681
ISBN
9780807859681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.59

Paperback. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341108
ISBN
9781349341108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Hardcover. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338104
ISBN
9780230338104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.39

Paperback. John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedy, glamorous backstage world of 1630s London theatre. Women are still not allowed on stage, their roles taken by precocious boys. Shank was one of the best, but is now reduced to teaching others the tricks of the trade. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594549
ISBN
9781854594549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Hardcover. 160pp. Inscription copy. Keywords: Irish poetry
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Harvill Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KHS1011810
ISBN
9781860469091
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 375.00

Paperback. Through four distinct sections, the author brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910701133
ISBN
9781910701133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Durcan brings his tender lyricism and incisive wit to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. He touches upon themes including near-death experiences; Ireland, its people and places; and marriage. Durcan also describes his own 20th-century romance, replete with agonies and ecstasies. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190. Signed and inscribed by the author. Scarce. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvill Press
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027259
ISBN
9781860469107
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

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