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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

hardcover. Contending that Plato's "Crito" does not show an allegiance between Socrates and the state that condemned him, Weiss argues that he considers the laws of the state to be more concerned with creating deference than justice - that, by submitting to his judgement, Socrates acts from a personal sense of justice rather than a set of imposed rules. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HPCA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 476. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033212
ISBN
9780195116847
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. A problematic relationship forms the core of this anthology - the interwoven lives of Southern women. As suggested by these selections of writing from both white and African-American women, their struggles portray the evolution of the southern woman's voice. Editor(s): Weaks, Mary Louise; Perry, Carolyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813014111
ISBN
9780813014111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.35

Paperback. Presents the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Including a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, this title investigates how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554583553
ISBN
9781554583553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.65

Paperback. Focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. This title examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554583577
ISBN
9781554583577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554588947
ISBN
9781554588947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 44.35

Paperback. Editor(s): Kamboureli, Smaro; Verduyn, Christl. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554589111
ISBN
9781554589111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 45.08

Paperback. Editor(s): Sloniowski, Jeannette; Rose, Marilyn. Num Pages: 342 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; APFA; APT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554589265
ISBN
9781554589265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554589449
ISBN
9781554589449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Percy, Owen. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554589951
ISBN
9781554589951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771120418
ISBN
9781771120418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 44.93

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713650693
ISBN
9780713650693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.42

Paperback. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the centre of a literary group that included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and many others. This book shows, through a sequential interweaving of letters, that they were the nucleus without which the group as we know it would not have stayed together Editor(s): Miller, Linda Patterson. Num Pages: 432 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 168 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813025360
ISBN
9780813025360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.45

paperback. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138806665
ISBN
9781138806665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 35.06

paperback. In this study, Marian Demos seeks to demonstrate the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. These passages include the Simonides poem in the "Protagoras" and the misquotation of Pindar in the "Gorgias". Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 6. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033303
ISBN
9780847689095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. Important because it subverts the conventional understanding of what is literary or not, dialogue has ties to Platonism, the dialectic and imaginative fiction. Num Pages: 316 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033530
ISBN
9780804714594
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Reinterpretation of the significance of the figure of St Bernard in Dante's Commedia. Series Editor(s): Minnis, Alastair; Boyde, Patrick; Burrow, Professor John; Copeland, Rita; Deyermond, Alan; Dronke, Peter; Palmer, Nigel; Wetherbee, Winthrop. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 284 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033615
ISBN
9780521434546
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Building on Edward Said's 'Orientalism', which defined Orientalism as a form of Western knowledge directly linked to imperial power, Todd Kontje offers a more nuanced version as seen through the lens of German literature of the last 1500 years. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033810
ISBN
9780472113927
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'. Illustrator(s): Boreham, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSB; HPCD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Icon Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848311787
ISBN
9781848311787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 6.28

paperback. Introducing Joyce provides an introduction to the life and work of the great pioneer of modernism. Illustrator(s): Flint, Carl. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, Throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Icon Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848313514
ISBN
9781848313514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 6.28

hardcover. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature. Num Pages: 494 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 922. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033884
ISBN
9780521307604
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern "interpreter" of Vico, Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce's work offer keys to Vico's philosophy. Verene presents Vico's philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce's words and insights serving as a guide. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 625. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033924
ISBN
9780300099584
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 591. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033943
ISBN
9780195327328
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. This volume gathers 23 interviews with the British novelist and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by some of the last half-century's foremost critics, academics and journalists. Gillian Dooley introduces the collection with an analysis of Murdoch's work. Editor(s): Dooley, Gillian. Num Pages: 300 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University South Carolina Pr United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570034992
ISBN
9781570034992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.44

Paperback. "Understanding Martin Amis" is a guide to the novels, short stories and non-fiction by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews and criticism to map the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape. Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliographic references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Edition
2 New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570035166
ISBN
9781570035166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.75

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