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Hardcover. An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364555
- ISBN
- 9781137364555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623564469
- ISBN
- 9781623564469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.14
€ 49.14
Hardback. While many studies focus on Obama as a politician, few consider his literary merit. This collection of essays approaches Obama's writings as a negotiation of literary tradition, rhetorical modes, and historical narratives. Obama, in turn, emerges as a notable figure within a long tradition of American literary-political authorship. Editor(s): Purcell, Richard; Veggian, Henry. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501523
- ISBN
- 9781137501523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Did you know the Battle of Bannockburn had its own poet-in-residence? Starting in 1314 and coming right up to the present day, the author examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. It also includes the most detailed consideration of what independence meant to Robert Burns. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748685844
- ISBN
- 9780748685844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195809
- ISBN
- 9781845195809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644615
- ISBN
- 9780691644615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.46
€ 157.46
Paperback. This up-to-date account of the composition, structure, and achievement of Balzac's novel provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing 19th-century expectations of what novels should be like. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 116 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003900
- ISBN
- 9780521316347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638911
- ISBN
- 9780691638911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07
€ 115.07
Paperback. 'Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject' Observer Num Pages: 521 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 45. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 521
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330320153
- ISBN
- 9780330320153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.79
€ 26.99
€ 23.79
Hardcover. Editor(s): Milojkovic-Djuric, Jelena. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVW; DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336741
- ISBN
- 9780880336741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardback. Baldo is a descendant of French royalty who starts out as something of a juvenile delinquent. This poem narrates episodes that include imprisonment; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons; and a journey to the underworld. It provides the English translation of this ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance. Translator(s): Mullaney, Ann E. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031241
- ISBN
- 9780674031241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
Hardback. This text presents an advanced introduction to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism and historicism. It examines the impact of the historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSA; DSBH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313295263
- ISBN
- 9780313295263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.44
€ 72.44
paperback. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- y First printing
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226541334
- ISBN
- 9780226541334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.98
€ 19.99
€ 16.98
hardcover. Editor(s): Miles, Harold. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 733.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Humana United States
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896032675
- ISBN
- 9780896032675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.22
€ 52.22
Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and ...
. Ed(S): Chappell, Julie A.; Young, Mallory
Hardback. Editor(s): Chappell, Julie A.; Young, Mallory. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 colour illustrations, 18 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; JFC; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319472584
- ISBN
- 9783319472584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.17
€ 162.17
Paperback. Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body. Num Pages: 324 pages, 36 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: A; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JFMP; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210325
- ISBN
- 9780520210325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGH; DSB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679263
- ISBN
- 9780816679263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245181
- ISBN
- 9780520245181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.52
€ 40.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Usandizaga, Aranzazu; Monnickendam, Andrew. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044527
- ISBN
- 9780268044527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220223
- ISBN
- 9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Hardback. An examination of drunkenness and the writer in the Romantic age. Areas of focus include: Wordsworth's poems and essays on the drunken career of Robert Burns; Charles Lamb's essays and letters; and Coleridge's drinking songs and essays about drunkenness. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSG; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333725214
- ISBN
- 9780333725214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811211666
- ISBN
- 9780811211666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
paperback. Series: Contemporary Literature. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Humana United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461295952
- ISBN
- 9781461295952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.78
€ 68.78