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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856682377
- ISBN
- 9780856682377
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.26
€ 34.99
€ 31.26
hardcover. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092298
- ISBN
- 9780802092298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.43
€ 84.43
hardcover. Here, Tim Conley explores the unsettling question of what constitutes an "error" in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce as central exploratory fields, he argues that an "aesthetic of error" permeates Joyce's literary productions. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087553
- ISBN
- 9780802087553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01
€ 73.01
hardcover. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 201 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087249
- ISBN
- 9780802087249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802046949
- ISBN
- 9780802046949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
hardcover. By analysing the works of specific prison writers but not being limited to a single locale or narrow time span, Fitting Sentences offers a significant historical and global overview of a unique genre in literature. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802038333
- ISBN
- 9780802038333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.63
€ 80.63
paperback. Provides a collection of theoretical and literary essays on Swift's work. The text places an emphasis on his Anglo-Irishness, which, it argues, is a key area in understanding his life and works. Reference is also made to Swift's gender relations and his female imitators. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582225725
- ISBN
- 9780582225725
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Condition: New
€ 81.29
€ 81.29
hardcover. Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D'Azeglio is said to have remarked, "We have made Italy, now we have to make Italians." This work draws on a broad array of sources to trace this making of a modern national identity in Italy. Num Pages: 400 pages, 74 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226774480
- ISBN
- 9780226774480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.87
€ 42.99
€ 36.87
Paperback. Deals with Susan Glaspell's and Sophie Treadwell's plays from a theatrical, rather than literary, perspective, and presents a comprehensive overview of their work from lesser known plays to seminal productions of "Trifles" and "Machinal". Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415404846
- ISBN
- 9780415404846
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Condition: New
€ 42.84
€ 42.84
Paperback. Editor(s): Whitlock, Gillian; Douglas, Kate. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; MQTC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415853170
- ISBN
- 9780415853170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Hardback. "This articulate, engaging, and well-documented study represents an important work of scholarship in its cross-cultural considerations of Italian Renaissance epic poetry." Prize Committtee Citation, MLA Scaglione Priize for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 232 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646834
- ISBN
- 9781442646834
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Condition: New
€ 92.30
€ 92.30
Hardback. Marilyn Migiel returns to Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442631885
- ISBN
- 9781442631885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Paperback. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442627161
- ISBN
- 9781442627161
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. This volume of RIM focuses on the inscriptions of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a city made famous by archaeological excavations of its spectacular burial sites. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; DB; DSB; HBLA1; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442623767
- ISBN
- 9781442623767
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Condition: New
€ 91.50€ 88.28
€ 91.50
€ 88.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665020
- ISBN
- 9780816665020
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813577166
- ISBN
- 9780813577166
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Entwistle, Alice. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781722022
- ISBN
- 9781781722022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
paperback. Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802094964
- ISBN
- 9780802094964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.81
€ 48.99
€ 43.81
Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde
. Ed(S): Somigli, Luca; Moroni, Mario
paperback. Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Editor(s): Somigli, Luca; Moroni, Mario. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802086020
- ISBN
- 9780802086020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.85€ 54.79
€ 55.85
€ 54.79
Paperback. The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802077363
- ISBN
- 9780802077363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. This anthology is a comprehensive collection of poetry from the Victorian era. It includes generous selections form the work of all major poets and a representation of the work of virtually every poet of significance.' Editor(s): Rundle, Vivienne; Collins, Thomas J. Num Pages: 1461 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 236 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1988.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 1461
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111001
- ISBN
- 9781551111001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.90€ 82.51
€ 101.90
€ 82.51
Paperback. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Editor(s): Bauer, Ralph; Mazzotti, Jose Antonio. Num Pages: 520 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859681
- ISBN
- 9780807859681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
paperback. With a contemporary poet selecting and introducing Sir John Betjeman, a poet of the past, this book offers insights into their own work, as well provides an accessible introduction to several important poets in our literature. Editor(s): Williams, Hugo. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022845
- ISBN
- 9780571230990
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
paperback. An illustrated work that explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to the more modern Angela Carter and, of course, Walt Disney. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, map, portraits (some colour). BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 656. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022769
- ISBN
- 9780099479512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70