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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Leary, Daniel. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- DC Books,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897190548
- ISBN
- 9781897190548
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
Hardcover. Deals with the Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies". This book comprises a discussion, with translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125166
- ISBN
- 9781905125166
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Condition: New
€ 79.30
€ 79.30
Paperback. What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been sired by a thunderbolt or by a gigantic snake? This title addresses these questions and others. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898386
- ISBN
- 9780859898386
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.43
€ 36.99
€ 33.43
Hardcover. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies. Num Pages: 440 pages, 18, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780801899317
- ISBN
- 9780801899317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.75
€ 29.99
€ 6.75
Hardback. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment. Num Pages: 440 pages, 40, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879616
- ISBN
- 9780801879616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21€ 61.19
€ 68.21
€ 61.19
Hardback. Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's foremost writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404585
- ISBN
- 9781421404585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.51€ 57.47
€ 63.51
€ 57.47
Hardcover. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSRC; HRCL; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268101343
- ISBN
- 9780268101343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.34
€ 70.34
Paperback. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454. Series: Reading the Novel. 312 pages, 0. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight: 454.
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226222
- ISBN
- 9780631226222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Hardcover. Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226215
- ISBN
- 9780631226215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.60
€ 130.60
Hardback. What happens when we read imaginative literature? What do we learn from reading such texts? Reading complements our experience, sharpens our perceptions, gives us insight into how other humans live, enables us to understand other cultures and periods, and gives us aesthetic pleasure. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130981
- ISBN
- 9781405130981
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Condition: New
€ 101.44
€ 101.44
Paperback. Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Kline, Daniel T. A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826494092
- ISBN
- 9780826494092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.63
€ 40.99
€ 40.63
Hardback. By exposing and elaborating the historical poetics of kitsch, My Silver Planet transforms our sense of kitsch as a category of material culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411453
- ISBN
- 9781421411453
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Condition: New
€ 58.33
€ 58.33
Paperback. Presents a collection of three "Turk" plays namely "Selimus, Emperor of the Turks"; "A Christian Turned Turk"; and "The Renegado". It represents Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. It is useful for understanding the English identity. Editor(s): Vitkus, Daniel J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illus; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110297
- ISBN
- 9780231110297
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.78
€ 40.99
€ 28.78
Paperback. A collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856463419
- ISBN
- 9780856463419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.13
€ 13.99
€ 13.13
Hardcover. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation. Editor(s): Schaub, Danielle. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 285 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644596
- ISBN
- 9780888644596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 49.60
€ 58.80
€ 49.60
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duquesne
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704975
- ISBN
- 9780820704975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.03€ 61.60
€ 74.03
€ 61.60
paperback. An anthology of literary criticism of Appalachian novelists, poets, and playwrights. It reprises critical writing of influential authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Cratis Williams, and Jim Wayne Miller. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 712. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821415900
- ISBN
- 9780821415900
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.47
€ 34.99
€ 33.47
paperback. Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment. Editor(s): Musa, Mark. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 428 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140444421
- ISBN
- 9780140444421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140444438
- ISBN
- 9780140444438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
paperback. It also includes extracts from a wealth of poems inspired by his work - including Spenser's Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Ezra Pound's Cantos and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140423884
- ISBN
- 9780140423884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.36
€ 23.99
€ 17.36
Paperback. Writing his "Comedy" (the epithet "Divine" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. Translator(s): Cary, H. F.; Griffith, Tom. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853267871
- ISBN
- 9781853267871
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Condition: New
€ 7.07
€ 7.07
Paperback. This is the first English translation of "Il Fiore", the late 13th century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French "Roman de la Rose" and the "Detto d'Amore", a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. Editor(s): Casciani, Santa; Kleinhenz, Christopher. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008932
- ISBN
- 9780268008932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.57
€ 61.57
Paperback. Presents the Italian text of the "Purgatorio". Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. Illustrator(s): Turner, Robert. Num Pages: 720 pages, numerous line drawings & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195087451
- ISBN
- 9780195087451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.55
€ 29.99
€ 29.55
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Number 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691018966
- ISBN
- 9780691018966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.97
€ 36.99
€ 26.97