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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. * Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Editor(s): Quintero, Ruben. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 624 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1226.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405119559
- ISBN
- 9781405119559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.97
€ 206.97
Paperback. Translator(s): Parkinson, R. B. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555628
- ISBN
- 9780199555628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 217 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 291 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Xlibris
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781456852009
- ISBN
- 9781456852009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 19.60
€ 31.99
€ 19.60
Hardcover. Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. Editor(s): Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Scottish Text Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897976395
- ISBN
- 9781897976395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 50.94
€ 52.99
€ 50.94
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371372
- ISBN
- 9781349371372
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333189
- ISBN
- 9781349333189
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351787
- ISBN
- 9781349351787
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Editor(s): Robbins, R. Num Pages: 260 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312231699
- ISBN
- 9780312231699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardback. Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offering a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation, this book traces the poet's literary influence on later authors and his impact on the arts. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159494
- ISBN
- 9781405159494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.87
€ 43.87
Paperback. The Middle Kingdom (c 1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This book studies this literary legacy. It reassesses the Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on studies of the individual texts. It explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible. Series: Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 2CXG; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845537708
- ISBN
- 9781845537708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537228
- ISBN
- 9781349537228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "In association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." Editor(s): Balfour, Robert J. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319558
- ISBN
- 9781349319558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349380169
- ISBN
- 9781349380169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as hebroadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches." Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291496
- ISBN
- 9781349291496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108684
- ISBN
- 9780230108684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455246
- ISBN
- 9781137455246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. He argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879777
- ISBN
- 9780801879777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.59€ 53.89
€ 57.59
€ 53.89
Hardback. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312227494
- ISBN
- 9780312227494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. "Beowulf" is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. This title provides readers as well as established scholars with fresh insights into "Beowulf", and the four other texts. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052956
- ISBN
- 9780674052956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.04
€ 40.99
€ 35.04
Paperback. This study of "The Newcomes" explores the cultural density found within the novel and reveals how Thackeray exploited allusion in order to present an archetypal and cyclical vision of life, questioning the status and value of fictions and blurring distinctions between history and fiction. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349120277
- ISBN
- 9781349120277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.27
€ 71.27
Hardback. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312236243
- ISBN
- 9780312236243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36
Paperback. Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him-romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199641659
- ISBN
- 9780199641659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.55
€ 30.55
Paperback. A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. It also weaves together his life and work. Num Pages: 832 pages, 32pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1306. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0024921
- ISBN
- 9780192806093
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Hardback. Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him-romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364. Fine in fine dust wrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0027124
- ISBN
- 9780199592166
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00