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Literary studies: general

The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. This book offers a fresh understanding of Thoreau's political life and writings, and includes discussions of subjects ranging from his democratic individualism to the political relevance of his intellectual eccentricity. Editor(s): Turner, Jack. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors. Num Pages: 460 pages, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813124780
ISBN
9780813124780
Condition: New

€ 59.49

Paperback. This book discusses political change in the view of Confucian thought. This study focuses on the Book of Change, which is one of the nine basic books of Confucius School, and has dominated oriental thought in this field for more than three thousand years. Num Pages: 164 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761851257
ISBN
9780761851257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.23

Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493832
ISBN
9781611493832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.48

Hardcover. Popular notion has it that Polish Jewish writers, unlike their counterparts in Western, Northern and Central Europe, wrote solely in Yiddish or Hebrew. Yet between the two wars, Poland produces an elite group of assimilated Jews writing exclusively in Polish. This text explores their emergence. Translator(s): Shenitzer, Abe. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AGP; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629849
ISBN
9780815629849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.44

Hardback. Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores the intersections between culture and policing in Soviet times. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; APF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760805
ISBN
9780804760805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Paperback. Translator(s): Summerfield, Giovanna. Num Pages: 36 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 4. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
36
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761822639
ISBN
9780761822639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.47

Hardback. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; HBLH; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649378
ISBN
9781442649378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.30

Paperback. .
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837637458
ISBN
9783837637458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 9.30

Hardback. Clearly written, this incisive critical study opens a new analytic window not only to the rhetoric of medieval Italian poetry but also to a richer understanding of one of the most important strands of medieval European culture. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823223251
ISBN
9780823223251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.91

Paperback. Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling an illimuntating tale of the curious occasion of the 'peacock dinner,' when W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound led four lesser-known poets to the home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to eat a peacock. Num Pages: 240 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198788331
ISBN
9780198788331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.91

hardcover. Reading a range of texts significant in their own time but little studied today, the author presents a view of late medieval French poetry in all its subtle variety: its quirkiness, its rhyming, its frequent moral seriousness, its occasional bawdiness, and the ambiguities of its authorial I. Num Pages: 372 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804718288
ISBN
9780804718288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Paperback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804738736
ISBN
9780804738736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804734905
ISBN
9780804734905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.97

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636191
ISBN
9780691636191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.78

Hardcover. Stahl's new monograph is the most thorough study so far to question modern Virgilian criticism on philological grounds. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910589045
ISBN
9781910589045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.69

Paperback. A compilation of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series. Series: Everyman Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, commentary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780460878241
ISBN
9780460878241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.88

Paperback. A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. Editor(s): Forche, Carolyn; Wu, Duncan. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393340426
ISBN
9780393340426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.80

Paperback. Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405896184
ISBN
9781405896184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.40

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649597
ISBN
9780691649597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.69

Hardback. This is the first English translation of Sara Pujol Russell's poetry. It has density of presence and lyrical complexity. This is conceptualized, metaphysical poetry that challenges us to unwrap her imagery and thus to enter intimately into her universe. Such poetry relies less on narrative and more on the compulsion of words themselves. Translator(s): Valis, Noel Maureen. Num Pages: 123 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
123
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910994
ISBN
9781575910994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.64

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