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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. Editor(s): Maltby, Robert. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686078
ISBN
9780856686078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.01

Hardback. Revised or expanded lectures given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. The poems are placed in the context of their intellectual background and related to the writing of other poets. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333457900
ISBN
9780333457900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.14

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319319261
ISBN
9783319319261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Meriwether Publishing,U.S. United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566081580
ISBN
9781566081580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.29

Paperback. In this volume of essays addressing the author's drama, novels, short stories and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a variety of delightfully original, playful and intriguing studies of Beckett's work. For theatre audiences and Beckett readers it will provide a fresh approach to this great writer. Series: Diaries, Letters and Essays. Num Pages: 208 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408137222
ISBN
9781408137222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.86

Includes ten speeches that illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. This title illuminates the major political crises of Cicero's time and offers portraits of many of the major political figures. Translator(s): Zetzel, James E. G. Num Pages: 376 pages, b/w maps. BIC Classification: DB; DNS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209909
ISBN
9780872209909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.14

Paperback. Includes ten speeches that illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. This title illuminates the major political crises of Cicero's time and offers portraits of many of the major political figures. Translator(s): Zetzel, James E. G. Num Pages: 376 pages, b/w maps. BIC Classification: DB; DNS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209893
ISBN
9780872209893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.74

Paperback. A superb compilation of modern Canadian voices: ten years, ten authors, ten critics. Editor(s): Carriere, Marie; Gillespie, Curtis. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 2ADF; DQ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 263 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772121414
ISBN
9781772121414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

Paperback. This study shows how the "rewriting" of Shakespeare's plays serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy and postmodernism - via the "Tempest" characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; DSGS; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295486
ISBN
9780312295486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.98

Paperback. Assessing existing traditions of autobiography and biography, this study seeks a method capable of conveying the distinctive content of women's lives while retaining the tenor of feminine subjectivity. The author draws on recent feminist research methodologies as well as anthropology and sociology. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814750759
ISBN
9780814750759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801957
ISBN
9780875801957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.36

Hardback. New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life. Editor(s): Postlewate, Laurie; Duys, Kathryn A.; Emery, Elizabeth. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 282 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843917
ISBN
9781843843917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Hardback. Editor(s): Kaufman, Alexander; Armstrong, Dorsey; Hughes, Shaun. F. D. Series: MIP Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures. Num Pages: 370 pages, 49 full color. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ABC; 2ACSX; CF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580442190
ISBN
9781580442190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.88

Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718257
ISBN
9780804718257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.26

Paperback. Telling Images is a study of Chaucer's narrative art and its use of symbolic images in the visual arts of his time. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804776585
ISBN
9780804776585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645698
ISBN
9780691645698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.61

Paperback. The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fiction run riot here: drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn; Johnston, Freya. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 black and white illustrations, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 3JF; BJ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198737452
ISBN
9780198737452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. How was Ted Hughes's poetry influenced by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, a life he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his career? This close study of Hughes's poetic development, now available in paperback, answers all these questions and more. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2006th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580978
ISBN
9780230580978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.42

Hardcover. Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes's Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes's experiences in South Yorkshire - in town and country, educationally, in literature and love - were decisive in forming him as the poet of his subsequent fame. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137499349
ISBN
9781137499349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.01

Paperback. Surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the significant British writers of the 20th-century: Ted Hughes. This guide discusses his poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters. It provides a comprehensive account of Hughes' critical reception, separated into the major themes that have interested readers and critics. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415311892
ISBN
9780415311892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 48.35

Paperback. * An overview of the topic of technology in literature, covering the span from late Victorian innovations, through modernism and the cold war, to computing and the internet. * Brings together a wide range of literature in a concise, student-oriented fashion. Series: Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745639543
ISBN
9780745639543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.57

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813570631
ISBN
9780813570631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.71

Paperback. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. This memoir tells the story of this troupe through chapters featuring the history and story of each of the main actors and writers. Editor(s): Garcia, Laura E.; Gutierrez, Sandra M.; Nunez, Felicitas. Series: Chicana Matters Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292717442
ISBN
9780292717442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hughes, Linda; Robbins, Sarah (Kennesaw State University, Georgia). Num Pages: 287 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748694457
ISBN
9780748694457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.86
€ 114.08

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