Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It explains the "Homeric Question," illuminating its current status, and critiques the literary qualities of the Iliad and the Odyssey, analyzing and contrasting their plotting, narrative technique, and characterization. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153256
- ISBN
- 9781405153256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.04
€ 47.04
Hardcover. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932309
- ISBN
- 9780813932309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.77
€ 80.77
Paperback. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932323
- ISBN
- 9780813932323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.68
€ 42.68
Hardcover. Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived. Editor(s): Baer, Hester; Hill, Alexandra Merley. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135841
- ISBN
- 9781571135841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi's life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmation of hope and ambition as well as decelarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Num Pages: 576 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 983.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133950
- ISBN
- 9780874133950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.28
€ 178.28
Hardback. Love, H is an intimate selection of letters from a forty-year correspondence between writer Hettie Jones and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn, who both survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; BJ; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361466
- ISBN
- 9780822361466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.23
€ 42.23
Paperback. A collection of the most significant and enduring works of the most important Japanese literary critic of the 20th century. The selections reflect the wide range of Kobayashi's early work, from meditations on the nature of literature and of criticism to studies of individual Japanese and Western writers. Editor(s): Anderer, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741156
- ISBN
- 9780804741156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Hardback. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Num Pages: 476 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 275 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 476
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644588
- ISBN
- 9781442644588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.39
€ 96.39
hardcover. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092298
- ISBN
- 9780802092298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.43
€ 84.43
Hardcover. By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135100
- ISBN
- 9781571135100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. Examines the role of the Victorian periodical in defining and refining ideas of gender. Series Editor(s): Beer, Gillian. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 583.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521830720
- ISBN
- 9780521830720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.59
€ 116.59
Hardback. This work looks at the use of language in the "Iliad" and examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms of nationality and of linguistics. It argues that the way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative position in the Trojan War. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CFH; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847682546
- ISBN
- 9780847682546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.24
€ 144.24
Hardback. An analysis of the discourses and cultural scripts used in telling stories about the relationship between teenage daughters and mothers in young adult novels and in short stories published between 1965 and 1998. It employs feminist theories and insights on female adolescence. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810836921
- ISBN
- 9780810836921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.75
€ 107.75
Hardback. A comprehensive critical analysis of 19 novels, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession as a professor of linguistics influences her writing for young adults. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810874466
- ISBN
- 9780810874466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.99
€ 95.99
Paperback. In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a "History of the Danes". This title provides a full English edition featuring introductory summaries, and a commentary on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet. Editor(s): Davidson, Hilda Ellis. Translator(s): Fisher, Peter. Num Pages: 526 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 798. Bks.1-9. 526 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Davidson, Hilda Ellis. In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a "History of the Danes". This title provides a full English edition featuring introductory summaries, and a commentary on the folklore and life and customs of twelfth-century Denmark - including the sources of Hamlet. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; JFHF. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 29. Weight: 756. Translator(s): Fisher, Peter.
- Publisher
- D.S.Brewer
- Number of pages
- 526
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859915021
- ISBN
- 9780859915021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 50.35
€ 52.99
€ 50.35
Hardback. Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century.. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451811
- ISBN
- 9780857451811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.40
€ 155.40
Paperback. Based on the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference held at the University of Chicago in 2012, this title includes essays from prominent scholars on topics such as media archaeology, theories of the image, popular forms, the history of aesthetics, and transmedia dynamics in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and early twenty-first-century contexts. Editor(s): Chute, Hillary L.; Jagoda, Patrick. Num Pages: 272 pages, 97 colour plates, 110 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226208466
- ISBN
- 9780226208466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.87
€ 18.99
€ 15.87
Paperback / so. Series: Abhandlungen Der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie Der Wissen. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531050799
- ISBN
- 9783531050799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.76
€ 80.76
Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996403
- ISBN
- 9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Hardback. A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596. Egypt 1892-2007. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. 224 pages. A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 22. Weight: 596.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639267
- ISBN
- 9780748639267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.78€ 119.62
€ 124.78
€ 119.62