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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. "A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on five Europeans who saw Shakespeare as a force of resistance against tyranny"-- Editor(s): Morse, Ruth. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 533.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441139467
ISBN
9781441139467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.93
€ 175.81

Paperback. Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099429159
ISBN
9780099429159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

Paperback. Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, Ruth Padel, who hit the headlines in 2009 when she was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in controversial circumstances. The story of her election and resignation received international news coverage. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 6. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248277
ISBN
9781852248277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, this title analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691037660
ISBN
9780691037660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.98

Paperback. Offers broad coverage of contemporary narrative theory, including frameworks that draw from classical and post-classical narratology, linguistics, and media studies Editor(s): Page, Ruth; Thomas, Bronwen. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 360 pages, 25 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803217867
ISBN
9780803217867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.15

Hardback. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada also illuminates the key individuals -- including Hugh Eayrs, John Gray, and Hugh Kane -- whose personalities were as fascinating as those of the authors they published, and whose achievements helped to advance modern literature in Canada. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
3rd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802098771
ISBN
9780802098771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.07

Paperback. Series: Library of Jewish Ideas. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165813
ISBN
9780691165813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.60

Hardcover.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125227
ISBN
9781905125227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.45

Paperback. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken-or hopes to take-in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22, 10 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421417974
ISBN
9781421417974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.83

Paperback. Narratology has been conceived as a project that transcends disciplines and media. This book investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. It addresses the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289932
ISBN
9780803289932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.04

Paperback. Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBH; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643196
ISBN
9780748643196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.49

Paperback. Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of horses and horsemanship in early Greek epic and lyric poetry. Drawing from the fields of comparative poetics and historical linguistics, the book sheds new light on fascinating and puzzling aspects of these central figures in early Greek verbal art. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975705
ISBN
9780674975705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.19

Hardback. This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248175
ISBN
9780230248175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.07
€ 34.49

Paperback. 'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; 4KHT; DSBH; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 5. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582023123
ISBN
9780582023123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.53

Hardback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137360359
ISBN
9781137360359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.74

Hardcover. This text deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of 16th-century England. It looks at works of courtly writers like Ralegh, Spenser, and Sidney, examining their ideas on the human body, politics, gender, and national identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, index, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Literary Studies - 16th to 18th Centuries,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences - Cultural Studies,Education Resource"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2000th Edition
SKU
KHS0051744
ISBN
9780333761021
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 67.50

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474414401
ISBN
9781474414401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.56

Hardcover. Divided into two sections, Sources and Archives and Theories and Translations, and containing work by some of the world's leading Beckett scholars, this volume reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the 'new pragmatism' within Beckett Studies. It gathers 5 textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett's texts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748665709
ISBN
9780748665709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.00

Paperback. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JF; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415538381
ISBN
9780415538381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801492402
ISBN
9780801492402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.23

Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 115 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195392067
ISBN
9780195392067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
LIT Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825872557
ISBN
9783825872557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.30

Paperback. The first performance of with a Little Bit of Luck took place on 16 July 2015 in the Theatre at Latitude Festival. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350010932
ISBN
9781350010932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.26

Hardcover. Series: Memento. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Little Island Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993505621
ISBN
9780993505621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.47

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