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Literary studies: general

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135018
ISBN
9781571135018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.04

Paperback. Translator(s): Fong, Professor Gilbert C F. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; AN; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 213.
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9789629961015
ISBN
9789629961015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.47

Paperback. Provides a broad selection of writing from Nikolai Karamzin and the beginnings of modern Russian prose to Ivan Bunin and the years just before the Revolution Editor(s): Proffer, Carl R. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 30. Weight in Grams: 539.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253325068
ISBN
9780253325068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.24

Paperback. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631490064
ISBN
9781631490064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.19

Paperback. Includes translated commentaries, dating from the sixth century, that show the persisting survival of Greek learning in an increasingly Christianised world. This work takes the form of a series of explanations and glosses of classical references in Gregory's original Sermons. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HRAX; HRCX4; HRKP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853239178
ISBN
9780853239178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.88

Hardcover. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. This book offers a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work both her writing and her painting. Num Pages: 208 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACXJ; AFC; AGB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500516515
ISBN
9780500516515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental writers. Maggie O'Sullivan has an international reputation as a poet both on the page and as a mesmerising performer. Her work breaks through traditional boundaries of performance and writerly practice. Editor(s): Hamilton-Emery, Chris; Salt Publishing; Upton, Lawrence. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876857738
ISBN
9781876857738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888393883
ISBN
9780888393883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. Translator(s): Azarov, Vladimir; Callaghan, Barry. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 109 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550963885
ISBN
9781550963885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.07

Hardback. Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, this title asks how some of the most distinguished writers of this tradition wrestle with the inexplicable nature of God and the experience of unmerited natural and moral sufferings such as racial oppression. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927961
ISBN
9780813927961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.50

Hardback. This book explores the interplay between ritual performance of the opera Mulian and gentrified mercantile lineages in late imperial Huizhou. It shows how local elites appropriated the opera, turning it into a medium for conveying orthodox values and religious precepts and for negotiating local social and gender issues in a rising money economy. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 tables, 13 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804750325
ISBN
9780804750325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.68

Paperback. This biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her early writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdowns of 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press and the political and personal distresses of her last years. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 43. Weight in Grams: 744.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712674508
ISBN
9780712674508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Quinlan, Susan Canty (Associate Professor of Portugese and Women's Studies, University of Georgia, USA); Arenas, Fernando (Associate Professor of Portugese Studies, University of Minnesota, USA). Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 1H; 1KL; 2ADP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639212
ISBN
9780816639212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.43

Hardcover. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004410
ISBN
9781900621663
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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

€ 14.99
€ 12.48

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
€ 19.40

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
€ 50.87

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

€ 48.05

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

€ 57.63
€ 53.85

Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812231571
ISBN
9780812231571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.57

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

€ 29.40

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

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

Hardcover. In the tradition of The Swerve, this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 280 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871406637
ISBN
9780871406637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.89

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