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Literary studies: general

Paperback. A complete literary history of the American Irish during the first part of the twentieth century. Offering a fresh perspective on familiar novelists, dramatists, and poets, the author introduces readers to a number of important writers who are often overlooked, and reveals rarely considered aspects of Irish-American social history. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268027728
ISBN
9780268027728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 275 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duquesne University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820704821
ISBN
9780820704821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.74
€ 65.84

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718893002
ISBN
9780718893002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.04

Hardback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251322
ISBN
9780823251322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.37

Paperback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251339
ISBN
9780823251339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Hardback. This book describes Charles Brockden Brown's novels in their Federalist-era context, exploring the dual roles of economics and gender that were changing in the 1790s alongside the growing U.S. market-capitalist economy. Hinds argues that Brown's works both recorded and contributed to this shifting ideology. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136036
ISBN
9780874136036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.79

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 117 x 31. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996557
ISBN
9780674996557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.15

Paperback. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816612284
ISBN
9780816612284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.76

Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed during the period of Aristotle's tutorship of Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander's tutors. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 line illustration, indexes. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Loeb Classical Library United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996564
ISBN
9780674996564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.50

Hardcover. Editor(s): Bulow-Jacobsen, Adam. Num Pages: 603 pages, with 37 plates. BIC Classification: CFL; DSBB; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 305 x 222 x 42. Weight in Grams: 2368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
631
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772892641
ISBN
9788772892641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.72
€ 74.13

hardcover. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804749152
ISBN
9780804749152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.77

Paperback. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804749169
ISBN
9780804749169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. Analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201507
ISBN
9780520201507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.22

Paperback. Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
20 Anv
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226305592
ISBN
9780226305592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Hardcover. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, this work reveals that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. It shows how through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926100
ISBN
9780813926100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.24

Paperback. Editor(s): Arias, Martin; Hadis, Martin. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780811222747
ISBN
9780811222747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.24

Hardback. In 1969, Dr Weiss began making videos of authors, illustrators, and editors in the children's literature field. The result was a collection of videos, "Profiles in Literature". This text summarizes and quotes from the interviews in the video series and also expands/updates guest's background data. Num Pages: 416 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810837874
ISBN
9780810837874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.22

Paperback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691608761
ISBN
9780691608761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.04

Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019079
ISBN
9780691019079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.90

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687303
ISBN
9780856687303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.47

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