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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. Offers a study of the English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's "Tales and Stories", and of the people who made them. This book demonstrates the interdependence of the English translations, many of which prove to have been made with little or no use of the original Danish text. Num Pages: 389 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778388568
ISBN
9788778388568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Hardback. The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children's stories. This title provides a critical corrective by locating in Hyakken's simple yet powerful literary language. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031128
ISBN
9780674031128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.05

Paperback / so. Series: Abhandlungen Der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie Der Wissen. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531050799
ISBN
9783531050799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.76

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 490 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691613864
ISBN
9780691613864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 64.02

Hardback. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067127
ISBN
9780674067127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 41.87

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843603
ISBN
9781843843603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. Editor(s): Fallahzadeh, Mehrdad. Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; AVS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588140647
ISBN
9781588140647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.84
€ 89.80

Paperback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555406660
ISBN
9781555406660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.07

The third and final volume of this first time edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter. This volume contains the texts of Psalms 116-150. Editor(s): Hudson, Anne. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 47. Weight in Grams: 836.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199688180
ISBN
9780199688180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.38

Provides, for the first time, a full edition of the first Lollard revision of Richard Rolle's English commentary on the Psalter, and gives detailed evidence for the second revision. Editor(s): Hudson, Anne. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 610 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 50. Weight in Grams: 908.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
610
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199674299
ISBN
9780199674299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 154.00

Paperback. A reissue of the 1974 Columbia U. Press edition of the letters of Florentine humanist Poggius (1380-1459) to his friend de Niccolis regarding the rediscovery of lost classical texts. Translated (from the Latin) with notes by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordon. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portla Translator(s): Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 393 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSBD; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
393
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096331
ISBN
9780231096331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.79

Paperback. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior. Her husband's death leaves the lovers free to marry, but the discovery of a legacy forces them apart. Editor(s): Shuttleworth, Sally. Num Pages: 336 pages, map, chronology, notes,. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2BMH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435368
ISBN
9780140435368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.54

Paperback. 'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300143102
ISBN
9780300143102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.53

Hardcover. Rebecca Pelan analyzes religion, region, class, and national and ethnic identity as crucial contexts in shaping feminist consciousness in the two Irelands, and compares the divergence of feminist perspectives to be found North and South of the border. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630593
ISBN
9780815630593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 126 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Robert D. Reed Publishers United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934759172
ISBN
9781934759172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Robert D. Reed Publishers United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931741637
ISBN
9781931741637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.49

Paperback. Translator(s): Ahl, Frederick. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 285 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801473975
ISBN
9780801473975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691652412
ISBN
9780691652412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.14

Paperback. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663289
ISBN
9780745663289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663272
ISBN
9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.59

Paperback. D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780769653
ISBN
9781780769653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.57

Paperback. Heralded as the 'new Harry Potter', Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight is a young adult vampire romance series in which teenaged Bella falls for a vampire, Edward, and is drawn into his and his family's morally grey universe, facing countless dangers and philosophical dilemmas. Editor(s): Wisnewski, J. Jeremy; Housel, Rebecca. Series Editor(s): Irwin, William. Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470484234
ISBN
9780470484234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.18

Paperback. Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691115672
ISBN
9780691115672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781383377
ISBN
9781781383377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.46

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