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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45, 16 colour, 29 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842804
ISBN
9781843842804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.89

Paperback. Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and Proust. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847923868
ISBN
9781847923868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.69

Hardcover. Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others. Editor(s): Cale, Luisa; Di Bello, Patrizia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221970
ISBN
9780230221970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. Ilusion aulica e imaginacion caballeresca en El Cortesano de Luis Milan" Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469609980
ISBN
9781469609980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.35

Paperback. "Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Marti-Pena." Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536907
ISBN
9781557536907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.66

Hardcover. Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108097
ISBN
9780230108097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349290970
ISBN
9781349290970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691627335
ISBN
9780691627335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

hardcover. The classical prose essay (ku-wen) of the Tang and Sung dynasties is one of the major Chinese literary genres. This study of Ku-wen in English focuses on writers Han Y and Liu Tsung-yan of the Tang, and Ouyang Hsiu and Su Shih of the Sung. Num Pages: 252 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714099
ISBN
9780804714099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349040742
ISBN
9781349040742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.57

Paperback. Series: Princeton Essays on the Arts. Num Pages: 201 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADS; AFC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691003153
ISBN
9780691003153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.31
€ 53.97

Hardcover. Images for Classicists shows how text and image taken together complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. Working to dissolve distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholarship, it explores challenges the digital revolution poses to curators and sketches ways that image-based collections may be deployed in the future. Series: Loeb Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; DSBB; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Harvard University Department of the Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674428362
ISBN
9780674428362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.71

Paperback. In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues. Num Pages: 384 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; ACG; AFKB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691094885
ISBN
9780691094885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.31
€ 54.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268005375
ISBN
9780268005375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. .
Publisher
The Swedenborg Society
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780854481835
ISBN
9780854481835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231159487
ISBN
9780231159487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.64
€ 80.25

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403972224
ISBN
9781403972224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.23

Hardback. Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Publication date
2017
SKU
V9781571139429
ISBN
9781571139429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.86

Hardback. Explores interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C P Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Editor(s): Roilos, Panagiotis. Series: Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DCF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053397
ISBN
9780674053397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.12
€ 50.15

Hardback. These critical essays have been selected to open up possibilities, mark out boundaries and set objectives in the expanding field of international literature in English. New literary and critical practices are derived from the problematic role of English as an international language. Editor(s): Cribb, T. J. Series: Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 633.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333738603
ISBN
9780333738603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.56

Paperback. Explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behaviour of these characters as we would the behaviour of real people Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814766569
ISBN
9780814766569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

paperback. Num Pages: 40 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFGA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 3. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1911
Publisher
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
Edition
1911th Edition
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9783663153542
ISBN
9783663153542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.55

Paperback. 'Imagining Adoption' looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver, as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adopter activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Editor(s): Novy, Marianne. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472030026
ISBN
9780472030026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.44

Paperback. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 68 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888646293
ISBN
9780888646293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.92

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