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Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403971272
ISBN
9781403971272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.35

Hardcover. The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fictionand the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s." Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBJD1; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202955
ISBN
9780230202955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.74

Paperback. Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. This title traces the development of Laurence's voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the Manawaka Cycle. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644510
ISBN
9780888644510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.98

Hardcover. What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Series: Crime File S. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 393.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333776681
ISBN
9780333776681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardcover. This broad and original study of the full range of John Clare's work is the first to take seriously his repeated appeals to the judgement of future readers. A series of close readings reveals Clare's sophisticated poetics: his covert quotations, his careful analysis of the history, and his fascination with literary success and posthumous fame. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517639
ISBN
9780230517639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Paperback. This is the definitive edition (including drafts, notes, and ancillary materials) of Paul Celan's Meridian, the most important poetological manifesto of the second half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Boschenstein, Bernhard; Schmull, Heino. Translator(s): Joris, Pierre. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739528
ISBN
9780804739528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976697
ISBN
9781403976697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

paperback. This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537303
ISBN
9781349537303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Paperback. .
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781682616
ISBN
9781781682616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. This volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Num Pages: 340 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226074276
ISBN
9780226074276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761809647
ISBN
9780761809647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.39

Paperback. First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry. Editor(s): Batchelor, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249885
ISBN
9781852249885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.07

hardcover. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929798
ISBN
9780813929798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.02

Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929804
ISBN
9780813929804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Paperback. 'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.' From the point of view of his life now, the author moves you through the events of his life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283248
ISBN
9780571283248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226015170
ISBN
9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.81

Hardback. The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691096742
ISBN
9780691096742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.21

Paperback. This concise guide to staging an Ayckbourn play includes information on: plot breakdown, hints on production, details of female and male characters, where to apply for permissions and music, and much more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 19. Weight in Grams: 165.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571214921
ISBN
9780571214921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.26

Hardback. Kottman's readings of the drama of William Shakespeare and others against two major treatises in political philosophy-Plato's Republic and Hobbes's Leviathan-contest the figural ground from which political philosophy emerges and suggests how a Shakespearean sense of the 'scene' might open up new avenues for thinking about politics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758345
ISBN
9780804758345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.78

Hardcover. This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623644
ISBN
9780230623644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.46

Paperback. Editor(s): Fox, Paul. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray; Sazalan, Azden. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9783898215732
ISBN
9783898215732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.60

Paperback. Allows the readers to explore substantial selections of the poetry of ten postwar poets - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian. Editor(s): Muldoon, Paul. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Faber & Faber England
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571228379
ISBN
9780571228379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.63

Hardcover. An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher. Editor(s): Bishop, Paul. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 32. Weight in Grams: 852. Life and Works. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 462 pages. Editor(s): Bishop, Paul. An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; HPCD. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 32. Weight: 852.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
462
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571133274
ISBN
9781571133274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.82

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 334 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403912862
ISBN
9781403912862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

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