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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This concise guide to staging an Ayckbourn play includes information on: plot breakdown, hints on production, details of female and male characters, where to apply for permissions and music, and much more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 19. Weight in Grams: 165.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571214921
ISBN
9780571214921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Mazer, Cary M. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474253840
ISBN
9781474253840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.69

Hardback. Includes poems that illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici. Translator(s): Chatfield, Mary P. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031487
ISBN
9780674031487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. The tenth and last volume of The Works of Stephen Cranecontains all of his known poetry and all of his known independent unfinished manuscripts, including the poetry collections The Black Riders and Other Lines and War is Kind, uncollected poems, and literary remains.

BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DQ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 903.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813906102
ISBN
9780813906102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.76

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gould, Warwick. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 411 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403945686
ISBN
9781403945686
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.39

Paperback. Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice..' Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205918
ISBN
9780872205918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.46

Presents a Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice.. Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
68
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205925
ISBN
9780872205925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardcover. Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This book includes a selection of verse and prose which tells about his work. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
David Campbell Publishers Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150278
ISBN
9781857150278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Hardcover. British Library MS Harley 913, known as the 'Kildare Manuscript', contains the earliest examples of Anglo-Irish writing. It includes numerous well-known poems and gives vivid insights into the lives of Anglo-Irish Franciscans at a time of unrest between native Irish and English settlers. Editor(s): Turville-Petre, Thorlac. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Early English Text Society
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198739166
ISBN
9780198739166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.72

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780389209775
ISBN
9780389209775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.62

Paperback. Offers an introduction to the First World War Poetry. This title features the sequence of poems that is drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry. Editor(s): Pirandello, Luigi. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 104 x 10. Weight in Grams: 68. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and some yellowing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0006520
ISBN
9780141181035
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. In this study of the "Agronautica", Albis examines the structural elements of the text that recreate phenomena associated with composers and performers of epic much earlier in the Greek tradition. It includes analyses of the Homeric influence on Apollonius and Apollonius' influence on Virgil. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847683154
ISBN
9780847683154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.07

Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073210
ISBN
9780674073210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.56

Paperback. Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349294572
ISBN
9781349294572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Libris Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870352758
ISBN
9781870352758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.29

paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 illus. Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Peter E. Randall Publisher United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914339472
ISBN
9780914339472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.71

Paperback. This volume contains shorter prose works from throughout Patrick Kavanagh's career: the autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences and a selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843510109
ISBN
9781843510109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00
€ 13.70

Hardcover. La Fontaine was a great French lyric poet of the 17th century. This study is almost as much about Louis XIV as about La Fontaine. It provides analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the King to enforce an official cultural style, and the plight of the artist under such a ruler. Translator(s): Todd, Jean Marie. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; BGH; BGR; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1025.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038779
ISBN
9780268038779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.12

Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 Black and White Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 41. Weight in Grams: 930.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583944547
ISBN
9781583944547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.25

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134622
ISBN
9781571134622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.63

Hardback. A pioneer of the the new law and literature movement narrates its central vision, which he calls poethics: the revival of jurisprudence through literary sources and techniques. He argues that lawyers, like novelists, must use language that is precise in order to tell their stories persuasively. Num Pages: 312 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231074544
ISBN
9780231074544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.96

Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758314
ISBN
9780804758314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.34

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638461
ISBN
9780691638461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 260 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403961785
ISBN
9781403961785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.58

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