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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. -- Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 206 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938172
- ISBN
- 9780813938172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.58
€ 57.58
Paperback. On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds by developing a vocabulary for the description of aesthetic worlds,using that vocabulary to rewrite the history of literature of the last 400 years. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190278274
- ISBN
- 9780190278274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.33
€ 59.33
Hardback. This book pays critical homage to the comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu of The University of Chicago. The volume consists of an introductory essay on Yu's scholarly career, and thirteen additional essays. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Eric J. Num Pages: 295 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138696
- ISBN
- 9780874138696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.61
€ 142.61
Hardback. Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241709
- ISBN
- 9780812241709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126564
- ISBN
- 9780231126564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.77€ 90.75
€ 117.77
€ 90.75
Paperback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126571
- ISBN
- 9780231126571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; DSB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480362
- ISBN
- 9780801480362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Paperback. In this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226391175
- ISBN
- 9780226391175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.71
€ 34.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. In his own reading of Rainer Maria Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence, but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges have a biopolitical aspect. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226735030
- ISBN
- 9780226735030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.90
€ 35.99
€ 28.90
Hardcover. Aims to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations of the human experience. This work maintains that diligent reading of the Beckett corpus reveals that Beckett was intensely concerned with representing certain "constitutive principles" of the human condition. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631026
- ISBN
- 9780815631026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.56
€ 38.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448201
- ISBN
- 9780801448201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.76
€ 47.76
paperback. Using queer theory and Marx's theory of value to explore issues of assimilation, representation, and equivalence, this book traces the concepts through selected 19th-century texts and contemporary gay and lesbian studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Copyright 2000
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325130
- ISBN
- 9780822325130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.45
€ 33.99
€ 26.45
Hardcover. Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031112
- ISBN
- 9781137031112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.60
€ 116.60
Paperback. "Eric Prieto is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, and numerous essays on music-and-literature, literary spatiality, Caribbean literature, and literary theory"-- Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349440702
- ISBN
- 9781349440702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. This new edition of Shakespeare's touching fable of loss and reunion, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with directors Bill Alexander and Rachel Kavanaugh and actor Simon Callows, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and includes an illuminating introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284111
- ISBN
- 9780230284111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.89
€ 13.89
Paperback. Includes material to help reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. This book features scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576148
- ISBN
- 9780230576148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.44
€ 12.44
Paperback. This fresh new edition of Julius Caesar, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Lucy Bailey, David Farr and Edward Hall, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and contains a completely new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284104
- ISBN
- 9780230284104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.34
€ 12.34
Paperback. This new edition of Shakespeare's classic love story, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Adrian Noble, Gregory Doran and Braham Murray, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and a completely new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576186
- ISBN
- 9780230576186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.33
€ 12.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, 25 colour & 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; AGB; BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869928988
- ISBN
- 9781869928988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 27.05
€ 40.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195032727
- ISBN
- 9780195032727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.84
€ 34.84
Hardback. An exploration of the relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The text illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed a sublime universe to Emerson, in which matter is boundless electrical force. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718926
- ISBN
- 9780333718926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This text explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGH; DSB; DSK; HRA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918951
- ISBN
- 9780333918951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Paperback. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487189
- ISBN
- 9781349487189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404077
- ISBN
- 9781137404077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20