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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Filled with spiritual wisdom and artistic beauty, Parzival is one of the greatest works of world literature. The character of Parzival illustrates the path of development required by the modern human being. This is a concise, accessible introduction to the central Grail story. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Temple Lodge Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906999353
ISBN
9781906999353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.40

paperback. Passing Strange attempts to bring contemporary race studies and contemporary Shakespeare studies into an honest and sustained dialogue, demonstrating both how and why instability is the nature of the relationship between Shakespeare and race in American popular culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Usa United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780199987962
ISBN
9780199987962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

Paperback. Contains extracts from Johnson's several interviews, giving an account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. This title brings up many elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism and the importance of family to him. Editor(s): McWilliams, Jim. Series: V Ethel Willis White Books. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780295984391
ISBN
9780295984391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.70

paperback. A study of the life and work of the lesbian writer, Jane Rule. Incorporating Rule's early work, including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan-mail, the book also draws on interviews and conversations with the author. Series: Passionate Communities. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814781333
ISBN
9780814781333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Hardback. Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion. Editor(s): Cummings, Professor Brian; Sierhuis, Dr Freya. Num Pages: 328 pages, Includes 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472413642
ISBN
9781472413642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.62

Hardback. Traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. This book examines the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution. Editor(s): Gailus, Andreas. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBD; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801882777
ISBN
9780801882777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.49
€ 61.59

Paperback. This volume considers Boris Pasternak's Russian classic, "Doctor Zhivago". It discusses the work in the context of the writer's oeuvre as well as its place within the Russian literary tradition, and includes considerations of existing translations and of textual problems in the original Russian. Editor(s): Clowes, Edith W. Series: NWP/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810112117
ISBN
9780810112117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781316606780
ISBN
9781316606780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.42

hardcover. This text draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804731065
ISBN
9780804731065
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.44

Paperback. Approach places, times and states of mind in a mosaic of knowledge, invention, memory and entertainment with this collection of poems. The personal and the public interact in many poems and others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside mythological motifs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 109.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547528
ISBN
9781857547528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.33

Paperback. Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception. Series: New British Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230001800
ISBN
9780230001800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.74

Paperback. An exploration of 'pataphysics, or the science of imaginary solutions. It covers the tangled history of 'pataphysics, discussing the tension between science and poetics, in order to demonstrate that 'pataphysics constitutes an intrinsic, but neglected, cornerstone of postmodernity itself. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810118775
ISBN
9780810118775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.91

Hardback. After an introduction to patents, their historical development and their current characteristics, this book describes the uses to which patents can be put, followed by details of their availability. Num Pages: 546 pages, figs. BIC Classification: DSB; LNR; PD; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
546
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810828797
ISBN
9780810828797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.26

Paperback. Editor(s): MacGowan, Christopher J. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811212984
ISBN
9780811212984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.97

Paperback. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). This book examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJWWM; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846316869
ISBN
9781846316869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.37

Paperback. Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, the author creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero - his father. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099914303
ISBN
9780099914303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Hardcover. In this study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008618
ISBN
9780674008618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.11
€ 46.68

Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801883026
ISBN
9780801883026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.31
€ 58.05

Paperback. Biography...Paul Durkan. 199pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781904301400
ISBN
9781904301400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646831
ISBN
9780691646831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.02

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