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Paperback. Intended for scholars and students with interests in Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, francophone studies, migration studies, and African-American studies, this title analyses post-1946 Haitian writing as a literature of exile. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318542
- ISBN
- 9781846318542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.59
€ 29.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. In her fourth collection, Hilary Davies embarks on pilgrimage - poetic, religious, psychological. Using a dazzling interplay of narrative and lyric line, she travels through real and imagined territory in search of answers to the great questions which preoccupy us as human beings. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910392171
- ISBN
- 9781910392171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.74
€ 13.99
€ 11.74
Hardback. This text examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition, from the archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. The author argues that the hero's reputation, his glory, is managed by women - especially his wife and mother. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2AHM; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847687510
- ISBN
- 9780847687510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.93
€ 131.93
Paperback. With over 19 books published, Habib Tengour is one of the Maghreb region's most important poets and commentators. Tengour, born in Algeria, divides his time between Paris and Constantine. This title presents a survey of the poems and writings of Tengour. Translator(s): Joris, Pierre. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Black Widow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984264056
- ISBN
- 9780984264056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.38
€ 23.99
€ 22.38
Paperback. It's the summer of 1912. Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard, a successful writer, and Bertha, his wife, have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together? Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854599520
- ISBN
- 9781854599520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
€ 13.99
€ 13.48
Exiles at Home: Stories by Ch'en Ying-chen (Michigan Classics in Chine...
Ch'En Ying-Chen, Lucien Miller, Yvonne Chang,...
Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, Lucien. Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892641598
- ISBN
- 9780892641598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.83
€ 21.99
€ 21.83
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662575
- ISBN
- 9781855662575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.59
€ 98.59
The only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HPCF3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870378
- ISBN
- 9780801870378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.17
€ 68.17
paperback. Fine copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- SKU
- KST0020374
- ISBN
- 9781416527817
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lightly toned, text is crisp, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0029210
- ISBN
- 9780224081733
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 32.00
€ 32.00
Paperback. A collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dos-toevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov. It offers novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolito and "The Idiot" to "Doctor Zhivago". Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843406
- ISBN
- 9781934843406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.40
€ 143.40
Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States ...
Renata R. Mautner Wasserman
Paperback. Paperback in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- SKU
- KRF0027359
- ISBN
- 9780801482052
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Compares fiction and non-fiction - their relative respectability in the eyes of reading experts and in the opinions of readers themselves. This title traces the roots of popularization from the Middle Ages onwards, examining changes in literacy, education, and university politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558498174
- ISBN
- 9781558498174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.79
€ 41.79
Paperback. From a New York schoolmaster, wide-ranging poems that eyeball mortality with rare equilibrium, appreciating life's richness and inevitable griefs. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566893732
- ISBN
- 9781566893732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.02
€ 17.99
€ 17.02
Paperback. Reflections on everyday living and bereavement Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 280. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252074752
- ISBN
- 9780252074752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.41
€ 20.99
€ 18.41
paperback. Explores the author's relationship with his father. This title also reflects on the life and legacy of the author's cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's prolific serial murderers. Num Pages: 416 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285823
- ISBN
- 9780099285823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758604
- ISBN
- 9780804758604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.39
€ 36.99
€ 34.39
Paperback. Norman Fischer s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology." Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358280
- ISBN
- 9780817358280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.04
€ 46.04
Paperback. In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. Translator(s): McEwen, Alastair. Series: Emilio Goggio Publications Series. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802096142
- ISBN
- 9780802096142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. Experiencing the Afterlife provides an analysis of depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Glacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide an interpretation of Dante's work. Series: William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268029654
- ISBN
- 9780268029654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.08
€ 36.99
€ 34.08