Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page). Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 872 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 51. Weight in Grams: 878.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 872
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019109
- ISBN
- 9780691019109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.60€ 50.75
€ 64.60
€ 50.75
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 624 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 203 x 35. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019130
- ISBN
- 9780691019130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.60€ 50.75
€ 64.60
€ 50.75
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Number 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691018966
- ISBN
- 9780691018966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.64
€ 36.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Presents the Italian text of the "Purgatorio". Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. Illustrator(s): Turner, Robert. Num Pages: 720 pages, numerous line drawings & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195087451
- ISBN
- 9780195087451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.23
€ 31.99
€ 31.23
Paperback. This is the first English translation of "Il Fiore", the late 13th century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French "Roman de la Rose" and the "Detto d'Amore", a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. Editor(s): Casciani, Santa; Kleinhenz, Christopher. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008932
- ISBN
- 9780268008932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.80
€ 58.80
Paperback. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. Translator(s): Cary, H. F.; Griffith, Tom. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853267871
- ISBN
- 9781853267871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Paperback. A classic translation with critical essays by leading scholars. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Series: Indiana Masterpiece Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- The Indiana Critical Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209306
- ISBN
- 9780253209306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.87
€ 21.99
€ 21.87
Hardback. Translator(s): Diehl, Patrick S. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642970
- ISBN
- 9780691642970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.57
€ 145.57
Paperback. Translator(s): Anemone, Anthony; Scotto, Peter. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 600 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; BGL; DCF; DQ; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618113726
- ISBN
- 9781618113726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.92
€ 34.92
Paperback. En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 159
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780994031
- ISBN
- 9781780994031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454. Series: Reading the Novel. 312 pages, 0. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight: 454.
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226222
- ISBN
- 9780631226222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.89
€ 45.89
Hardcover. Deals with the Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies". This book comprises a discussion, with translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125166
- ISBN
- 9781905125166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.80
€ 80.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1QDA; 3B; 3JMG; BM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007545131
- ISBN
- 9780007545131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Hardback. The youngest member of the Paris-based experimental collective Oulipo, Levin Becker tells the story of one of literature's quirkiest movements--and the personal quest that led him to seek out like-minded writers, artists, and scientists who are obsessed with language and games, and who embrace formal constraints to achieve literature's potential. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065772
- ISBN
- 9780674065772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Hardback. Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081491
- ISBN
- 9780719081491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.22
€ 157.22
Paperback. Schwartz's analysis of the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia explores the role of education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. Catechesis emerges here as invaluable for comprehending clergy's ability to initiate new members as Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman world. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067035
- ISBN
- 9780674067035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.60
€ 27.99
€ 24.60
Hardback. This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of identity. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625260
- ISBN
- 9780748625260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.33€ 118.81
€ 123.33
€ 118.81
Paperback. Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialised aesthetic of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748691210
- ISBN
- 9780748691210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. A monograph on Jack Spicer's work. It examines Spicer's post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and inspiration as 'dictation'; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 234 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322. 256 pages. A monograph on Jack Spicer's work. It examines Spicer's post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and inspiration as 'dictation'; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Dimension: 166 x 234 x 11. Weight: 322.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748645497
- ISBN
- 9780748645497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.50
€ 40.99
€ 36.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGU; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231162968
- ISBN
- 9780231162968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.36€ 79.32
€ 103.36
€ 79.32
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641706
- ISBN
- 9780691641706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.26
€ 111.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198715542
- ISBN
- 9780198715542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691169453
- ISBN
- 9780691169453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Hardcover. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight: 408.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669912
- ISBN
- 9780748669912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.58€ 103.50
€ 111.58
€ 103.50