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Literary studies: general

Hardback. Textual Vision offers a new and original perspective on Enlightenment visual culture as a contested area of representation, and its discussions of major authors like Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen are both learned and persuasive. Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850. Num Pages: 310 pages, 28 black & white halftones, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBK; AC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611485691
ISBN
9781611485691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.24

Paperback. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350. 224 pages, illustrations. Representing the advances in cognitive poetics, this book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved over the years. It draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CF; DSB. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight: 348.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625826
ISBN
9780748625826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.95

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651255
ISBN
9780691651255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.02

Paperback. Series: Casebook S. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302. 8vo .Good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
1978th Edition
SKU
KEX0293733
ISBN
9780333215142
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-20th-century author, poet, and playwright. Theatre historian Robert A. Schanke mines lost archival materials and interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and construct an account of her life and loves on Broadway and in Hollywood. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809325795
ISBN
9780809325795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.94

Paperback. Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love. Editor(s): Kaeuper, Richard W.; Kennedy, Elspeth. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215793
ISBN
9780812215793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Paperback. Building on the formula of York Notes, this series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This enbables students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop critical thinking. Editor(s): Sowerby, Robin. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 4KL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Longman
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582431522
ISBN
9780582431522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.29

Hardback. A comprehensive guide to the scholarly work that has appeared pertaining to the Roman de Renart. The guide not only details the evolution of various manuscripts and their present locations, but also provides information concerning translations, adaptations, scholarly and critical studies, and facsimile editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810834354
ISBN
9780810834354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.78

Paperback. The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play. First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617463
ISBN
9780748617463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.07

Paperback. New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text. Editor(s): Rauer, Christine. Translator(s): Rauer, Christine. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844310
ISBN
9781843844310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.62

Hardback. First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844693
ISBN
9781843844693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.15

Paperback. One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. This representative selection from Gilman's diaries includes entries written between January 1879 and March 1935. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 facsim.,1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; JFFK; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917962
ISBN
9780813917962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.66

Hardcover. The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576-1642 looks at London theater at the time of Shakespeare and how it represented the New World, considering whether early modern drama was anti-American, as some contemporaries suggested. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198734321
ISBN
9780198734321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.82

hardcover. This is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two 16th-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del Cortegiano" (1528) and "Giovanni Della Casas Galateo" (1558). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; 3JB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ2; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804739047
ISBN
9780804739047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.43

Paperback. This is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two 16th-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del Cortegiano" (1528) and "Giovanni Della Casas Galateo" (1558). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; 3JB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ2; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739054
ISBN
9780804739054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. Shakespeare used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the sixteenth century, when the word was rarely used. The author reveals that the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes' formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 colour plates, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226924168
ISBN
9780226924168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.11
€ 79.76

Paperback. Shakespeare used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the sixteenth century, when the word was rarely used. The author reveals that the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes' formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 colour plates, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226924175
ISBN
9780226924175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Building on the formula of York Notes, this series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This enbables students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop critical thinking. This text covers "The Aeneid" by Virgil. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; 4KL; DSBB; DSC; DSK; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 7. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582431546
ISBN
9780582431546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.94

paperback. A story of arms and heroism that follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105138
ISBN
9780143105138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 352 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106296
ISBN
9780143106296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.90

Paperback. Features chapters that focus on the following questions: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? Editor(s): Gendolla, Peter; Schafer, Jorgen. Num Pages: 394 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
SKU
V9783899424935
ISBN
9783899424935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521530
ISBN
9781487521530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.12

Paperback. A full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century. Bohn illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11ill.48figs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226063256
ISBN
9780226063256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. The once influential theory Neoanalysis held that motifs and episodes in the "Iliad" derive from the "Aethiopis. "Given its vast potential implications for the "Iliad" s origins, the recent revival of Neoanalysis in subtler form inspires this critical reappraisal by Malcolm Davies of that theory s more sophisticated reincarnation." Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088313
ISBN
9780674088313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.76

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