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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. As one of Egyptian theater's leading contemporary playwrights, Alfred Farag has had a profound influence on shaping Arabic drama and Egyptian cultural politics. This book chronicles Farag's career and offers a critical perspective on his creative output and the condition of Egyptian theater in the 1970s through the 1990s. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631637
ISBN
9780815631637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.61

Paperback. Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1F; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631644
ISBN
9780815631644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.36

Hardcover. Recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history. Editor(s): Dollenmayer, David B. Translator(s): Dollenmayer, David B. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JJ; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631781
ISBN
9780815631781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.97

Hardcover. On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies. Editor(s): Orr, Leonard. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631880
ISBN
9780815631880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.61

Hardcover. Reveals how portrayals of peasants from the literature of the Golden Age of Virgilian Pastoral, who behave according to their social station, were increasingly replaced in the Middle Ages by portrayals that present the realistic peasant, whose outrageous behavior betrays his or her class while it threatens those who stand 'above'. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632153
ISBN
9780815632153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.65

Hardcover. Analyzes the political, theological and social dimensions of speech as depicted in late medieval English lyric poetry. Series: Syracuse Uni: Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632733
ISBN
9780815632733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Nwosu, Maik. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633877
ISBN
9780815633877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.18

Hardcover. Drawing on both canonical and little-known texts of the Literary Revival, Bender highlights the centrality of Exodus in Ireland. In doing so, she recuperates the history of a liberation narrative that was occluded by the aesthetic of 1916, when the Christ story replaced Exodus as a model for revolution and liberation. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633990
ISBN
9780815633990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.27

Hardcover. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815634003
ISBN
9780815634003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.66

hardcover. John McNamee captures through his poetry the heroism, irony, tragedy and beauty that is hidden even among the shambles of the desolate urban neighborhoods in which he ministers. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AFH; DC; DSBH; DSC; HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DWsunned to spine and edges. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0024401
ISBN
9781556128127
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

hardcover. Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories. Editor(s): Hutchings, Dr. Kevin. Series Editor(s): Hutchings, Dr. Kevin; Wright, Dr. Julia M. Series: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781409409533
ISBN
9781409409533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.37

paperback. Editor(s): Gladstein, Mimi R.; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271018317
ISBN
9780271018317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.31

Paperback. In a post-structuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, the author investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HBAH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520089358
ISBN
9780520089358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. Examines how Chicana writers engage literary convention through fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography as a means of addressing these motives. Employing anthropological, feminist, historical, and literary sources, this book explores the continuity found among Chicanas' writing across varied genres. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSA; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566393737
ISBN
9781566393737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

paperback. Takes us on a seductive journey through author's childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099450030
ISBN
9780099450030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

Hardcover. A new edition of Aristophanes, replacing the previous OCT (1900-1). It incorporates a better picture of the transmission of the text from antiquity, and more accurate reports of manuscript readings. Editor(s): Wilson, N. G. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198721802
ISBN
9780198721802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.92

hardcover. Previous ed. published under title: Key concepts in post-colonial studies. Series: Routledge Key Guides. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; GBC; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415661904
ISBN
9780415661904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.49

hardcover. A collection of essays that examines the idea of future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes fresh insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Editor(s): Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415995405
ISBN
9780415995405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.90

paperback. Editor(s): Macrides, Dr. Ruth. Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138252387
ISBN
9781138252387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

paperback. Examines Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatric and cinematic avant-gardes. This book explores her development of a playwriting aesthetic based in avant-garde drama, cinema, and queer identity. Series: Studies in Modern Drama. Num Pages: 220 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415977234
ISBN
9780415977234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.01

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