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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 135 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
SparkNotes
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Study Guide
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411469600
ISBN
9781411469600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.30

Paperback. Editor(s): Clark, Dr. Sandra; Mason, Dr. Pamela. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904271413
ISBN
9781904271413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230. 128 pages, ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight: 230.
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780746308431
ISBN
9780746308431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Connell, Jolyon; Sanderson, Kate. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 147 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148. Editor(s): Connell, Jolyon; Sanderson, Kate. Cateogry: (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBD; DSGS. Dimension: 147 x 172 x 9. Weight: 146.
Publisher
Connell Guides
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776045
ISBN
9781907776045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. Editor(s): Crowther, John. Series: No Fear Shakespeare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS; JNZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Spark Notes
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Study Guide ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586638467
ISBN
9781586638467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Helps the reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. This book includes scene-by-scene summary of the play "Macbeth". Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576209
ISBN
9780230576209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.49

Hardcover. Presents a creative and analytical study which brings to life the important facets of classical Persian poetry. This book explores the connections between poetry and lived experience. It highlights the role of classical Persian poetry as the 'silk road of the imagination', connecting many polities and diverse ways of life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748696925
ISBN
9780748696925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.82
€ 114.36

Paperback. Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. Editor(s): Stafford, Fiona. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199601967
ISBN
9780199601967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Offering the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, this edition includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415355292
ISBN
9780415355292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.46

Paperback. This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies."-Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408880
ISBN
9781421408880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.20

Paperback. Translator(s): Durling, Robert M. Num Pages: 672 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 141 x 36. Weight in Grams: 804.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674663480
ISBN
9780674663480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DN; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890650322
ISBN
9781890650322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.31

Paperback. Traces the history of the term lyric from its classical origins through the early modern, Romantic and Victorian periods and up to the twentieth-first century. This book demonstrates the influence of lyric on poetic practice, literature, music and other popular cultural forms. It is suitable for students of literature, music and cultural studies. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415319560
ISBN
9780415319560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.27

Hardback. A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; HBLH. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198789468
ISBN
9780198789468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Farvolden, Pamela. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580442466
ISBN
9781580442466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.54

Hardcover. Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camoes's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of "spiritual" or allegorical scriptural exegesis in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Tamesis Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855663145
ISBN
9781855663145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.14

Paperback. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 182 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856683091
ISBN
9780856683091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.39

Hardcover. Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase "the love of literature" as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
y First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226183701
ISBN
9780226183701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.58
€ 78.69

Paperback. The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is through performance. This new edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy, developed by and for the RSC, examines the play's performance history and provides insightful interviews from important directors Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran, as well as outstanding on-page notes. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230217911
ISBN
9780230217911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.44

Paperback. This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial introduction. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195074857
ISBN
9780195074857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.39

Paperback. The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives - beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437420
ISBN
9780099437420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271108
ISBN
9780823271108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardback. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. This title focuses on the curious artefacts that literature has to offer. It lets you find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce. Num Pages: 496 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 46. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Icon Books
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848311640
ISBN
9781848311640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.92

Paperback. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. This title focuses on the curious artefacts that literature has to offer. It lets you find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848312470
ISBN
9781848312470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.29

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