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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 212 x 9. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405896238
ISBN
9781405896238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.28

Paperback. A collection of original essays by distinguished historians on the works of topographical writers who described and recorded the landscape of South-West England in the period c. 1540-1900. Editor(s): Brayshay, Mark. Num Pages: 214 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; HBTP; PDX; RGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Exeter Press England
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894241
ISBN
9780859894241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.75

Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125314
ISBN
9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843931
ISBN
9781843843931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.30

Hardback. Negotiations of National Identity. 338 pages, black & white illustrations. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight: 680.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9781843842880
ISBN
9781843842880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.41

Hardcover. Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504387
ISBN
9780674504387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226457802
ISBN
9780226457802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.65

Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325994
ISBN
9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.27

Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530561
ISBN
9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99

Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271064871
ISBN
9780271064871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.91
€ 66.77

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164412
ISBN
9780231164412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164405
ISBN
9780231164405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.20
€ 81.45

Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184616
ISBN
9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.69

Hardcover. Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction-2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him-until he was saved by writing. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393064667
ISBN
9780393064667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.45

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947020
ISBN
9781933947020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.54

Paperback. This book examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730990
ISBN
9780804730990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.59

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736288
ISBN
9780198736288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.53

Hardback. Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Editor(s): Brewer, Charlotte; Windeatt, Barry. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6, 6 black & white line drawings, 6 line drawing. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843542
ISBN
9781843843542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 103.15

Paperback. The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801843099
ISBN
9780801843099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.74

Hardcover. Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation - convergence and divergence - with ideas of the Archaic Period. Editor(s): Cairns, D. L. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125579
ISBN
9781905125579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.30

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632612
ISBN
9780691632612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.19
€ 96.39

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603247
ISBN
9780691603247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.64

Hardback. Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting volume that explores the theory and practice of tragedy from the Greek tragedians to the present day, tracing important developments, continuities and discontinuities in the tragic tradition and exploring the afterlives of some of the most resonant tragic narratives. Editor(s): Brown, Sarah Annes; Silverstone, Catherine. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405135467
ISBN
9781405135467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.95

Surveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801884344
ISBN
9780801884344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

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