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hardcover. 8vo.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0296404
- ISBN
- 9780752873367
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769549
- ISBN
- 9780804769549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
hardcover. Editor(s): Dimock, Wai-chee. Num Pages: 504 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231157360
- ISBN
- 9780231157360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.72€ 125.54
€ 134.72
€ 125.54
Paperback. Reveals the writer's thoughts about the energy and mobility of the American people, the effect of modernism on literary form, the nature of history and its recording, and the inventiveness of the English language - in particular, its American variant. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 203 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226771540
- ISBN
- 9780226771540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.27
€ 26.99
€ 22.27
Paperback. A collection of poems that discusses about the struggle of making a life in America, and about the urge 'to carve a space' for love and family from out of the vast sweep of modern life. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226093109
- ISBN
- 9780226093109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
paperback. In this debut collection, the author explores both the gaps and the connections between the self and others. Like the "night blooming jasmine leaving its warm trace," these poems arise out of the dark. With great poise, keen insight, and formal skill, he moves between shared experience and interior life in the shifting textures of Other People. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 157 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226092751
- ISBN
- 9780226092751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.49
€ 19.99
€ 17.49
Hardback. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780821422243
- ISBN
- 9780821422243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardback. This study of four major poets - Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin - examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be "about" its own process of saying. Translator(s): Whobrey, William. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780804724692
- ISBN
- 9780804724692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardback. Centred on the relationship between the personal lives of the writers John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence and the works they produced this intriguing study develops a portrait of a circle of writers who significantly influenced the development of modernism in Britain. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780748641482
- ISBN
- 9780748641482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.26€ 109.07
€ 113.26
€ 109.07
Hardback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780748641352
- ISBN
- 9780748641352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.45€ 81.20
€ 83.45
€ 81.20
Hardback. A study of the representation of astrology and celestial portents in the medieval and later literature of Ireland and Wales, Fiery Shapes examines the mysterious figure of the druid, who was allegedly able to read the future from rainclouds; Taliesin and Merlin; and the Welsh gentleman poet of the later Middle Ages and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, Six black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; DSBB; DSBD; HBLC1; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780199571840
- ISBN
- 9780199571840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.00
€ 211.00
Paperback. Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable. Unfortunately, things don't end there. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099514077
- ISBN
- 9780099514077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DCF; JHBF; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 93. 8vo .Some minor shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the Author
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- OxfordPoets
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0280724
- ISBN
- 9781903039632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Through innovative readings of Sophocles, the Marquis de Sade and Mario Vargas Llosa, Binding Violence examines literary visions of the constitution of autonomous polities in the context of historical emergences of democracy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763301
- ISBN
- 9780804763301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Paperback. How is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book aims to solve this puzzle. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646678
- ISBN
- 9780748646678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Provides a representation of French poet Paul Verlaine's oeuvre. This selection includes a number of Verlaine's early works; poems from his middle period, which reflect his on-again, off-again conversion to Catholicism; and poems from his late period, when he fell prey to poverty and disease. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Num Pages: 292 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226853451
- ISBN
- 9780226853451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
paperback. Editor(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750521
- ISBN
- 9780226750521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. This title demonstrates the range of Camoes' interests and invention. Num Pages: 212 pages, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226092867
- ISBN
- 9780226092867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; DSB; HBTB; HBTQ; HPCD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270682
- ISBN
- 9780823270682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
paperback. A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas". It investigates how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado's style reveals the embedded class divisions of 19th-century Brazil. Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322399
- ISBN
- 9780822322399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.56
€ 29.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. The issue of a woman's place - and the possibility that she might stray from it - was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. This book takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321675
- ISBN
- 9780822321675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
paperback. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, this title examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822315667
- ISBN
- 9780822315667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Taking note of new theoretical and socio-political developments, this volume demonstrates critical theory's continuing relevance across disciplines ranging from the arts through to the hard sciences. Editor(s): Sim, Professor Stuart. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748693399
- ISBN
- 9780748693399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 208.63€ 198.27
€ 208.63
€ 198.27
Hardcover. The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopedist 'Amr b Bahr al-Jahiz has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. This book looks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating beverages and daily life. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692743
- ISBN
- 9780748692743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.30€ 103.50
€ 107.30
€ 103.50