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Paperback. The "High Book of the Grail" (Perlesvaus) is one of the most fascinating of medieval Arthurian romances. The framework of the romance is the struggle of Arthur and his knights to impose - by force - the New Law of Christianity in place of the Old Law. This work presents this view of the Arthurian world to students of medieval literature. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843841210
ISBN
9781843841210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. Translator(s): Bryant, Nigel. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 210 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142. Selected Episodes from Perceforest: the Prehistory of Arthur's Britain. 128 pages, black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 131 x 210 x 7. Weight: 148. Translator(s): Bryant, Nigel.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842903
ISBN
9781843842903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.86

Paperback. This concise companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Editor(s): Alderman, Nigel; Blanton, C. D. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118646946
ISBN
9781118646946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.79

Paperback. One of the great 20th century political diaries back in print in a new edition with 20% new material Editor(s): Nicolson, Nigel. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753819975
ISBN
9780753819975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Presents a selection of 20th-century Amazonian literature. This book contains writing from the indigenous and mestizo people of the Amazon basin, which aims to recover their forgotten voices for the Latin American literary canon. It includes poems, stories, and passages from novels that include traditional themes of the indigenous groups. Editor(s): Suarez-Arauz, Nicomedes. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813030807
ISBN
9780813030807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.78

Hardback. Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 148 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137492623
ISBN
9781137492623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 46.40

Hardcover. Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230205482
ISBN
9780230205482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Paperback. Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349488933
ISBN
9781349488933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.78

Hardback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137559913
ISBN
9781137559913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.22

hardcover. A study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the 17th and 18th centuries, this book explores the correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is driven by conceptual questions, and seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the social production of space. Series Editor(s): Poska, Professor Allyson M.; Zanger, Professor Abby. Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Num Pages: 208 pages, Includes 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754652571
ISBN
9780754652571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.92

Paperback. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341108
ISBN
9781349341108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Hardcover. Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338104
ISBN
9780230338104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.39

Hardback. This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267811
ISBN
9780823267811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.70

Paperback. Translator(s): Wissing, Paula. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605371
ISBN
9780691605371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.89
€ 46.84

Hardback. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487500658
ISBN
9781487500658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041373
ISBN
9780268041373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.28

Hardcover. This book is an analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America, tracing the active interplay between language, space, and memory. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620360
ISBN
9780230620360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages, 25 b&w illustrations and 14 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSK1; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Harrington Park Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939594204
ISBN
9781939594204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 380 pages, 25 b&w illustrations and 14 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Harrington Park Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939594075
ISBN
9781939594075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.44
€ 64.47

Paperback. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200. Series: Reader's Guides. 176 pages. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Continuum
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826490117
ISBN
9780826490117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.81

Hardcover. Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137271860
ISBN
9781137271860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.74

Hardback. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents an in depth exploration of historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. A series of illuminating essays by literary and cultural scholars reveals the complexity of the many "wests" in our imagination and reality. Editor(s): Witschi, Nicolas S. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 578 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 171 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1148.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405187336
ISBN
9781405187336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 212.06

Paperback. The first comprehensive study of literary works created both orally and in writing by immigrants to the United States from the Hispanic world since the early nineteenth century Num Pages: 211 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 1 chart/graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292743946
ISBN
9780292743946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638966
ISBN
9780691638966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.96

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