Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of something unfamilar for something familiar, metonymy connects something familiar with something else already familiar. Nagy offers close readings of over one hundred examples of metonymy in the arts of Greek and other cultures. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088320
- ISBN
- 9780674088320
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.22
€ 33.99
€ 28.22
Paperback. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KRS0017712
- ISBN
- 9780801865381
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Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
paperback. A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas". It investigates how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado's style reveals the embedded class divisions of 19th-century Brazil. Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322399
- ISBN
- 9780822322399
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. Reveals details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs. Featured here are the outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, along with descriptions of how they were each written, and their respective sources of inspiration. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSB; FL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280304
- ISBN
- 9780803280304
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Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 14ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 6. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Lang Syne Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852171643
- ISBN
- 9781852171643
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Condition: New
€ 7.62
€ 7.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864734631
- ISBN
- 9780864734631
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Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171694
- ISBN
- 9780231171694
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.32
€ 36.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 2ADS; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813054001
- ISBN
- 9780813054001
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Condition: New
€ 36.89
€ 36.89
hardcover. "Sixth symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, [University of Maryland]"--Pref. Editor(s): Leonard, Amy E.; Nelson, Karen L. Num Pages: 402 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490183
- ISBN
- 9781611490183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.37
€ 162.37
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955507953
- ISBN
- 9780955507953
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.37
€ 27.99
€ 25.37
Hardcover. Offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. This work reveals the volatile nature of masculinity and its inextricability from femininity. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632375
- ISBN
- 9780815632375
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Condition: New
€ 48.31
€ 48.31
Paperback. These poems -- more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi -- are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110914
- ISBN
- 9780231110914
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 54 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870335488
- ISBN
- 9780870335488
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.80
€ 19.99
€ 14.80
Paperback. Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides a starting point for readers new to Wollstonecraft's work. Key materials include letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents. Editor(s): Craciun, Adriana. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415227360
- ISBN
- 9780415227360
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Condition: New
€ 33.96
€ 33.96
Paperback. Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves.. and the accompanying original engravings. -- Diane Johnson, Washington Post. Num Pages: 512 pages, 33, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 749.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801842184
- ISBN
- 9780801842184
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Condition: New
€ 42.27
€ 42.27
Paperback. Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley's major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein, presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man and Lodore. Series: Critical Issues. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019096
- ISBN
- 9780230019096
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Condition: New
€ 48.43
€ 48.43
Hardback. Editor(s): Davidson, Clifford; Broos, Ton J.; Walsh, Martin. Series: MIP Early Drama, Art, and Music. Num Pages: 186 pages, 13 full color. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580442213
- ISBN
- 9781580442213
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Condition: New
€ 96.50
€ 96.50
Hardback. "A broad and deep analysis of Mary Magdalene's prominence through overlapping discourses of late medieval English culture.. An elegantly written and valuable resource on theater, gender, and religion."-Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238006
- ISBN
- 9780812238006
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Condition: New
€ 97.58
€ 97.58
Paperback. Continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches Illustrator(s): Mawicke, Tran. Num Pages: 235 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FA; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803282117
- ISBN
- 9780803282117
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.58
€ 15.99
€ 15.58
Hardback. A biography of Mary Austin that explores her life and achievement. It tells the larger story of the importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 255 x 30. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246355
- ISBN
- 9780520246355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54