Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Aims to recreate the turbulent times through which William Shakespeare lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas. Drawing on a range of sources, this work takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780563521419
- ISBN
- 9780563521419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.77
€ 21.99
€ 17.77
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500051849
- ISBN
- 9780500051849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.19
€ 26.99
€ 19.19
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. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165976
- ISBN
- 9780231165976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Electronic book text. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425605
- ISBN
- 9781474425605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441135070
- ISBN
- 9781441135070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.97€ 88.93
€ 116.97
€ 88.93
Paperback. A portrait of the bond between a mother and her son, and the capturing of a moment in time before the loss of childhood innocence. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228041
- ISBN
- 9780571228041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. A bracingly original dialogue on modernity, class, and difference in the 20th century Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781512600193
- ISBN
- 9781512600193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 39.04
€ 49.99
€ 39.04
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633367
- ISBN
- 9780691633367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Paperback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167831
- ISBN
- 9780691167831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.29
€ 45.99
€ 33.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 color plates. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226458922
- ISBN
- 9780226458922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 39.97
€ 50.99
€ 39.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JHBD; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 263. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- University Press of New England Hanover
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- SKU
- KRS0018329
- ISBN
- 9780874517699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 300 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362944
- ISBN
- 9780822362944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. A controversial overturning of post-colonial cultural criticism. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844672134
- ISBN
- 9781844672134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.02
€ 32.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Allen, Esther; Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231159692
- ISBN
- 9780231159692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.39
€ 36.99
€ 27.39
Paperback. In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer for it, is not clear, and they hope for the best. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190020
- ISBN
- 9780141190020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Recounts the author's life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation. This title documents the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. Editor(s): Painter, Nell Irvin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140437959
- ISBN
- 9780140437959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Paperback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503600409
- ISBN
- 9781503600409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.56
€ 26.56
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 272 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178563
- ISBN
- 9780231178563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.34€ 50.50
€ 64.34
€ 50.50
Hardback. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this is a collection of the Bard's greatest plays, digested to a few thousand words along with side notes. It is suitable for the theatre goer needing a quick recap, and a massive relief for those just desperate to pass their English exam. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS; WH; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 185 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857524263
- ISBN
- 9780857524263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.74
€ 9.99
€ 8.74
Hardback. This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH5; DSK; JFSJ1; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474216
- ISBN
- 9781137474216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 5S; DSB; HPS; JFSK; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816695928
- ISBN
- 9780816695928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.82
€ 32.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic profession, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties. This volume presents a critical analysis of French dramatic text. Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 250
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227636
- ISBN
- 9780807892794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456817
- ISBN
- 9780801456817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.58
€ 37.99
€ 35.58