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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2BMU; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340640
- ISBN
- 9780230340640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
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
€ 74.83
€ 74.83
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
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
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
€ 52.89€ 42.58
€ 52.89
€ 42.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JJP; 3JM; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 114. .
- Publisher
- Regan Arts United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632060525
- ISBN
- 9781632060525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.61
€ 14.99
€ 13.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501703072
- ISBN
- 9781501703072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036027
- ISBN
- 9780268036027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardcover. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036010
- ISBN
- 9780268036010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
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
€ 199.81€ 178.70
€ 199.81
€ 178.70
Paperback. Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773676
- ISBN
- 9780804773676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTZ1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143323
- ISBN
- 9780691143323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.19
€ 42.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 colour, 87 duotone illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ACV; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1057.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271027029
- ISBN
- 9780271027029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.39€ 70.97
€ 83.39
€ 70.97
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. One of Charles Dickens' most exciting novels, "A Tale of Two Cities", blends a moving love story with the familiar figures of the Revolution - Bastille prisoners, a starving Parisian mob, and an indolent aristocracy. This title offers a guide to the novel. Editor(s): Glancy, Ruth. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415287609
- ISBN
- 9780415287609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Hardcover. From the 16th century to the 18th century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. This title looks at some of those representations to tease out the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333925379
- ISBN
- 9780333925379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403991164
- ISBN
- 9781403991164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. Examines the whole of Flora Thompson's oeuvre including the poetry, short fiction, and essays that she published in women's periodicals before World War II, her book of poetry, "Bog Myrtle and Peat" (1921), and two posthumously published works, "Still Glides the Stream" (1947) and "Heatherley" (1979). Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838642061
- ISBN
- 9780838642061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. Explores the 19th century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. This book shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike. Num Pages: 248 pages, 17 color plates. 55 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2AB; 2ADF; ACQ; AFC; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143231
- ISBN
- 9780691143231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.19
€ 42.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Beckett's 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237766
- ISBN
- 9780230237766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. This text shows that early modern audiences were aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, and sea travel. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333973738
- ISBN
- 9780333973738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardback. Newman looks at the use of landscape in a wide array of Cooper's novels to illustrate the great author's distinctive outlook on what it meant to be a gentleman in the early days of America. Only in the land of democracy, opportunity and rolling countryside can a true Cooper gentleman arise. Num Pages: 120 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739105818
- ISBN
- 9780739105818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.12
€ 116.12
Paperback. The period between the Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's coming to power in the early 1930s was one of the most exciting for all branches of the arts in Russia. This study tries to show how the diversity of the Soviet arts of the 1920s continued the major trends of the pre-Revolutionary years. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSBH; HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349097234
- ISBN
- 9781349097234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.16
€ 60.16
Paperback. A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications. Editor(s): Carey, Russell; Fairhall, Anne; Rank, Tom; Giovanelli, Marcello. Series: A Level (AS) English Literature AQA. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSB. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (XS) Student text. Dimension: 221 x 277 x 13. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Student
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107467927
- ISBN
- 9781107467927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.32
€ 41.99
€ 41.32
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691645988
- ISBN
- 9780691645988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.88
€ 126.88