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hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780761820130
ISBN
9780761820130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.63

Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768764
ISBN
9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636399
ISBN
9780691636399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.84

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816619818
ISBN
9780816619818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768757
ISBN
9780804768757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.35

hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452840
ISBN
9780801452840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 black-and-white photographs and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520294875
ISBN
9780520294875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009639
ISBN
9780674009639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

Paperback. Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with something else already familiar. Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy in the arts of Greek and other cultures. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088320
ISBN
9780674088320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Deals with the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. This book, which centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry, is not to reassess the oral poetic heritage of Homeric poetry but to show how it became a classic in the days of the Athenian empire and later. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 650 pages, 4 halftones, 21 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 35. Weight in Grams: 854.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674033269
ISBN
9780674033269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.93

paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801484223
ISBN
9780801484223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. This collection of essays is devoted to the most important changes - in theme, language, structure, style, and production - that characterize the transformation of Athenian Comedy from the mid-fifth through the fourth century. Editor(s): Dobrov, Gregory W. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780788501401
ISBN
9780788501401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.87

Paperback. America is a nation making itself up as it goes along. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, this book gives us a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Editor(s): Marcus, Greil; Sollors, Werner. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 1128 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1580.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
1128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064102
ISBN
9780674064102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DQ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801582
ISBN
9780875801582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.79

Hardback. Editor(s): Minton, Gretchen. Series: Arden Shakespeare the State of Play. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474280372
ISBN
9781474280372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 106.16

Paperback. Identifies common themes in the writings of African-, Asian-, and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814795996
ISBN
9780814795996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Hardcover. This work brings together a group of leading experts from Canada, the United States and Europe to examine the reception of Plato's "Timaeus" throughout history, as well as its impact on major intellectual and cultural traditions. Editor(s): Reydams-Schils, Gretchen J. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038717
ISBN
9780268038717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

Hardback. We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. Num Pages: 336 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636696
ISBN
9780745636696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Griffin, Professor Gabriele (University of York, UK University of Hull, UK University of York, UK University of York, UK University of York, UK University of Hull, UK University of York University of Hull, UK University of Hull, UK University of Hull, UK University of York); Hayler, Lecturer Matt (University of Birmingham). Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities Eup. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSR; GBC; GPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474409612
ISBN
9781474409612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.31

Hardback. A book, in which, the authors read some of the classics in the Russian novelistic tradition against a critique of the Lukacs-Bakhtin view of epic, all the while demonstrating the modernity of epic as a literary mode and arguing how some key Russian novels challenge or outgrow their generic form to re-imagine or re-invent a new, monumental one. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235537
ISBN
9781936235537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Sitric Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903305126
ISBN
9781903305126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.95

Paperback. "Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Marti-Pena." Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536907
ISBN
9781557536907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.43

Hardcover. Editor(s): Brokoph-Mauch, Gudrun. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572410435
ISBN
9781572410435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.01

paperback. Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802094964
ISBN
9780802094964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 43.81

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