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Paperback. Presents war stories that are often shocking accounts of the incivilities perpetrated by and on men suddenly confronting their own mortality. This book presents stories that center on the subject of the awareness of imminent violent death. It includes the classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "Chickamauga", "The Mocking Bird," and others. Editor(s): Hopkins, Ernest Jerome. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 6. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 139
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260870
- ISBN
- 9780803260870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.53
€ 16.99
€ 16.53
The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Col...
Jose Maria Rodriguez-Garcia
paperback. A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia. Num Pages: 290 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349379156
- ISBN
- 9781349379156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Col...
José María Rodríguez García
Hardcover. A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia. Num Pages: 261 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 2ADS; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430. Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-century Colombia. 292 pages, Illustrations. A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 2ADS; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615335
- ISBN
- 9780230615335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349008759
- ISBN
- 9781349008759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Hardcover. A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115781
- ISBN
- 9780230115781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801048821
- ISBN
- 9780801048821
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.42
€ 29.99
€ 22.42
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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.73
€ 36.99
€ 33.73
Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719179
- ISBN
- 9780804719179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Hardcover. Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the rise of the political novel to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s. Yeh explores in detail the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes, among them the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global. Num Pages: 441 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504356
- ISBN
- 9780674504356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.83€ 54.73
€ 58.83
€ 54.73
Hardback. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 258 pages, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512253
- ISBN
- 9781137512253
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354383
- ISBN
- 9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. Editor(s): Gavin, Dr. Adrienne. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348271
- ISBN
- 9780230348271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.98€ 67.65
€ 105.98
€ 67.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763536721
- ISBN
- 9788763536721
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the "Yellow Wallpaper", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from "Herland", Gilman's feminist Utopia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918761
- ISBN
- 9780813918761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.55
€ 35.55
Hardback. An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013292
- ISBN
- 9780230013292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634715
- ISBN
- 9780691634715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.52
€ 151.52
paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691605791
- ISBN
- 9780691605791
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50
Paperback. This classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719044816
- ISBN
- 9780719044816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.85
€ 20.85
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847693276
- ISBN
- 9780847693276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.22
€ 187.22
Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400426
- ISBN
- 9781421400426
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Condition: New
€ 44.85
€ 44.85
Paperback. This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439683
- ISBN
- 9781349439683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This volume features a collection of letters by John B. Keane. These include: "Letters of a Successful TD", "Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer", "Letters of a Matchmaker", "Letters of an Irish Priest" and "Letters of an Irish Minister of State". Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 450. 390pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Mercier Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781856351560
- ISBN
- 9781856351560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.04
€ 20.99
€ 19.04
Hardcover. This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions. Editor(s): DelRosso, Jeana; Eicke, Leigh; Kothe, Ana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600256
- ISBN
- 9780230600256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804790550
- ISBN
- 9780804790550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44