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Literary studies: general
Paperback. From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and often transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017566
- ISBN
- 9780674017566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 38.32
€ 44.99
€ 38.32
paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780872208933
- ISBN
- 9780872208933
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.35
€ 18.99
€ 15.35
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472085408
- ISBN
- 9780472085408
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.10
€ 34.99
€ 32.10
Hardcover. Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780205175482
- ISBN
- 9780205175482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.37
€ 201.37
Paperback. Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's great epic of universal change, into elegant and remarkably faithful blank verse, along with selections from the Amores. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199941650
- ISBN
- 9780199941650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.09
€ 60.09
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604734201
- ISBN
- 9781604734201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780940322127
- ISBN
- 9780940322127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.29
€ 19.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712666350
- ISBN
- 9780712666350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- V9780312400378
- ISBN
- 9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.70
€ 43.99
€ 37.70
paperback. The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075919
- ISBN
- 9780252075919
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
paperback. The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. It explores the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071294
- ISBN
- 9780252071294
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
paperback. A collection of poems that find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. It comments on the power of culture to interject itself into our desire for an idealized self, the way our inner and outer lives lack correspondence, harmony, and integration. Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 203. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071201
- ISBN
- 9780252071201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069611
- ISBN
- 9780252069611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
paperback. Presents a personal chronicle of Fanny, a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. This novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252069468
- ISBN
- 9780252069468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256. 210 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Africa World Pr
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592210565
- ISBN
- 9781592210565
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Condition: New
€ 27.20
€ 27.20
Paperback. From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. > Num Pages: 192 pages, 45. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441189684
- ISBN
- 9781441189684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.97
€ 43.97
paperback. Designed to meet the instructional needs of advanced German courses, this volume combines a number of pedagogically proven foreign language teaching and learning strategies, primarily the communicative approach and the three-stage reading strategy. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: AB; CJ; DSBH; DSBH5; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 273 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433126390
- ISBN
- 9781433126390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.28
€ 70.28
Paperback. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200. Series: Reader's Guides. 176 pages. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826490117
- ISBN
- 9780826490117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
Paperback. Provides an introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789. This guide includes: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural production and the growth of 'print culture'; major writers, genres and groups; and explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism. Series: Introductions to British Literature and Culture S. Num Pages: 170 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826485656
- ISBN
- 9780826485656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99
€ 37.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Morrison, Dane. Num Pages: 430 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820431017
- ISBN
- 9780820431017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.67
€ 49.67
Paperback. Offers a different perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories. Editor(s): Bernheimer, Kate. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ; YFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814332672
- ISBN
- 9780814332672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.22
€ 29.22
Paperback. An overview of Chaucer's work, focusing on the most canonical texts, such as Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, while also providing some analysis of his minor works. Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813060965
- ISBN
- 9780813060965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.23
€ 30.23
Series: Revived Modern Classic. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811210898
- ISBN
- 9780811210898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.04
€ 29.04
Paperback. This volume covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the "golden age" of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Wars", and "E.T.") would soon dominate box offices. Editor(s): Gunn, James E. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842458
- ISBN
- 9780810842458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.46
€ 38.46