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Literary studies: general
Paperback. In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how and why he continues to be so influential and important to society today. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198718628
- ISBN
- 9780198718628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Compiled by one of the best-known authorities on the bard's works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages. Essential reference for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare. Series: Oxford Quick Reference. Num Pages: 240 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 262. Paperback, in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- SKU
- KRF0014164
- ISBN
- 9780192806383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.82
€ 12.82
Paperback. How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Looking at both plays and poetry, this lively and informative book explores Shakespeare's portrayal of desire, jealousy, and same-gender relationships, as well as how sex becomes a source of humour in his comedies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199643974
- ISBN
- 9780199643974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141017136
- ISBN
- 9780141017136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Hardcover. John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a 'chronicler' of the lives of farmers, teachers and policemen in the Irish midlands in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782051640
- ISBN
- 9781782051640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Paperback. A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393353068
- ISBN
- 9780393353068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.41
€ 17.99
€ 16.41
Hardback. "Combines perfectly precise analysis with a literary form of expression, clearness of thought and language."-Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HPCF; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823213023
- ISBN
- 9780823213023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.24
€ 94.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688331
- ISBN
- 9780856688331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.26
€ 34.99
€ 31.26
Hardback. This publication presents facsimilies of two contrasting originals of Blake's Songs, together with a background narrative taking the reader from 1700 through the 1790s. Illustrated. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, facsims.(some col.),map,plan. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838635667
- ISBN
- 9780838635667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.03
€ 122.03
paperback. If you know sentences, you know everything. Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world. This title offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBW; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780061840531
- ISBN
- 9780061840531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.99
€ 12.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. For Milton the value of a poem or of any other production derives from the inner worth of its author and not from any external measures. This text explores the radical effect of Milton's theological convictions on his poetry and prose. Num Pages: 640 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012332
- ISBN
- 9780674012332
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Condition: New
€ 52.23€ 48.27
€ 52.23
€ 48.27
Paperback. Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674467262
- ISBN
- 9780674467262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 33.83
€ 41.99
€ 33.83
Hardback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780788505652
- ISBN
- 9780788505652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.27
€ 71.27
Hardback. "Complex Pleasure" deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers: Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729390
- ISBN
- 9780804729390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.48
€ 149.48
Paperback. "Complex Pleasure" deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers: Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729406
- ISBN
- 9780804729406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Paperback. On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. This title traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127804
- ISBN
- 9780691127804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89
Hardback. This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history. Editor(s): Hodge, David. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745420
- ISBN
- 9780804745420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Paperback. In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; DSB; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226098210
- ISBN
- 9780226098210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.82
€ 31.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to "Walden," a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226098135
- ISBN
- 9780226098135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.94
€ 27.99
€ 22.94
Paperback. This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history. Editor(s): Hodge, David. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745437
- ISBN
- 9780804745437
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- Enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674961968
- ISBN
- 9780674961968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.82
€ 41.99
€ 34.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814730881
- ISBN
- 9780814730881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. This book carefully translates a seminal work of Japanese puppet theater, written in 1747, during the the genre's golden age. The editor includes background information on the play and a bibliography. Editor(s): Jones, Stanleigh H. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080538
- ISBN
- 9780231080538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.47
€ 37.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. A complete translation of a major Japanese puppet drama written in 1746, with an investigation into the play's many authors and the use of "bunraku" puppets. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231059879
- ISBN
- 9780231059879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.55
€ 37.99
€ 27.55