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Literary studies: general

hardcover. Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802037633
ISBN
9780802037633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.92

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088452
ISBN
9780719088452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.55

Paperback. Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. Num Pages: 104 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745635996
ISBN
9780745635996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.03

Hardback. DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647121
ISBN
9781442647121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.62

Paperback. El ritmo is a collection of letters from Salvador Rueda to the Catalonian critic Jose Yxart, first published in Madrid in 1894. El ritmo sets out, in a sometimes ironical tone, a panorama of the state of poetry in Spanish at the end of the nineteenth century. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 66 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 5. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894012
ISBN
9780859894012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.37

Hardcover. La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy. Editor(s): Jones, Michael. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687945
ISBN
9780856687945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.70

Hardcover. Salvador Novo (1904-1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. This book portrays the codes, intrigues, and dynamics of what, decades later, would be called "a gay ghetto." Translator(s): Feitlowitz, Marguerite. Series: Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; BGLA; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705418
ISBN
9780292705418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.07

Paperback. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 136 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563440
ISBN
9780099563440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. A study of post-Vietnam American literature and culture focusing on narratives of bodily trauma evident in a wide range of texts by and about other white men. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231112932
ISBN
9780231112932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.20

hardcover. Editor(s): Greene, Sally. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 712. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780821412695
ISBN
9780821412695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.21

Hardcover. Traces the feminist contributions of a wide range of Irish American women writers, from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Mitchell to contemporary authors such as Gillian Flynn, Jennifer Egan, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633303
ISBN
9780815633303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.12

Paperback. These three works exemplify the Roman historian Sallust's condemnation of the excesses of the late Republic. In the conspiracy of Catiline and the war against Jugurtha he sees moral and political corruption and the tragedy of civil strife. This new translation captures Sallust's distinctive style and considers his work as history and literature. Translator(s): Batstone, William W. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192823458
ISBN
9780192823458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Hardback. World Literature covers 41 worksnovels, short stories, and poemswritten by authors from around the world, published between 1719 and 2003. The titles analyzed here spawned from authors representing England, Ireland, Poland, and Denmark, and many others Series: Introduction to Literary Context. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 208 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Grey House Publishing Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619254831
ISBN
9781619254831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.04

Hardback. Deals with abundant, generous, other-regarding love. This book offers an engagement with Helene Cixous' philosophies of love, inviting readers to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open them to something like a divine love of the other. Series: Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719069604
ISBN
9780719069604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156950
ISBN
9780231156950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462. Modernism and the Banality of Empire. 248 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156943
ISBN
9780231156943
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.28
€ 78.73

paperback. A Short History of Greek Literature presents a valuable and user-friendly introduction to the diversity and complexity of Greek literature, from Homer's epics to the first Christian writings. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415122726
ISBN
9780415122726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.64

Hardback. Crossing Borders explores cross-cultural representations of gender and sexual practices in the medieval French and Arabic traditions. Amer demonstrates that the medieval Arabic tradition on eroticism played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240870
ISBN
9780812240870
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. Explores how Saudi Arabian women writers have used their art as a means of gaining control over the cultural and political restraints imposed by their society. Nine of the most influential writers are studied in detail, and excerpts of their writings appear here in English for the first time. Num Pages: 357 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 2CSR; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231084215
ISBN
9780231084215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

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

€ 23.99
€ 17.46

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