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Literary studies: general

Paperback. In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history. This companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. It offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Editor(s): Roberts, Neil. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1038.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405113618
ISBN
9781405113618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857546590
ISBN
9781857546590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.62

paperback. Deals with Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, in this book, the author argues that Oscar's Wilde's life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 564. Good clean copy showing light age and wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone U.K.
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0025432
ISBN
9780099415459
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Key Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes and techniques * Textual analysis of key passages * Author biography * Historical and literary background * Modern and historical critical approaches * Chronology * Glossary of literary terms Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 208 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582424494
ISBN
9780582424494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.30

Paperback. The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. From knife crime to belief in witches, religious battles to the horizons of the New World, this title brings the past to life in a fresh, unexpected portrait of a dangerous and dynamic era. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSGS; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718195700
ISBN
9780718195700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Hardcover. Death and Tenses explores the question of what tense we should use to refer to the dead. Focusing on sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts in French and Latin, it compares early modern examples with modern French and English, asking whether changes in more recent beliefs in posthumous survival have led to different tense usage. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JB; 3JD; CFF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198754039
ISBN
9780198754039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.87

Paperback. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 396 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Donahue, Neil H. New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134554
ISBN
9781571134554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075866
ISBN
9781906075866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.32

Hardcover. This book considers the kinds of responsibility which modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380352
ISBN
9781781380352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.50

Paperback. The original edition of this work was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". It has been revised throughout and contains additional chapters on each of Heaney's poetry collections published since the first edition, as well as separate discussions of his work as a translator and essayist. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571177479
ISBN
9780571177479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.06

hardcover. Latin epics such as Virgil's "Aeneid", Lucan's "Civil War", and Statius' "Thebaid" addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order. This book argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226111872
ISBN
9780226111872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.74
€ 54.40

Paperback. The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and accomplished of all medieval literary texts. This book contains a lively parallel-text translation in modern English, as well as a glossary, notes and introduction. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&2 halftones, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 15. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896900
ISBN
9780859896900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252040573
ISBN
9780252040573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.71

Paperback. Discusses how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, presented, and organized their texts. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 2CSR; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780292705456
ISBN
9780292705456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.23

Hardback. 'Between Genders' demonstrates how gender differentiation becomes a defining issue in early French Modernism. It also explores how border crossings among seemingly distinct terms of identification (heterosexuality, homosexualities, androgyny, etc.) put in question the idea of identity and provoke reconsideration of other important issues. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138450
ISBN
9780874138450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.25

Paperback. After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction. Editor(s): Harding, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537808
ISBN
9780199537808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Bell, Michael Davitt. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199539123
ISBN
9780199539123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Hardcover. .
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590170427
ISBN
9781590170427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.55

Hardcover. Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Translator(s): Dubin, Nathaniel E. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 143 x 49. Weight in Grams: 966.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
982
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871403575
ISBN
9780871403575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.21

Paperback. Revealing the truth behind the legend of Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged", Nathaniel Branden tells the story of his relationship with the literary genius, 25 years his senior. It lasted 18 years and went from student/teacher, to friends, to colleagues, to lovers, and to bitter adversaries. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787945138
ISBN
9780787945138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.14

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