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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: 478 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. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034461
ISBN
9780815631644
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034472
ISBN
9780674009639
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. Girolamo Fracastoro (?1478-1553) was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. He was born in the northern Italian city of Verona, into a prominent local family. Series: ARCA (Classical & Medieval Texts, Papers & Monographs) S. Num Pages: 295 pages, viii + 295 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Francis Cairns Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034498
ISBN
9780905205205
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. It is commonly held that Aristotle's views on politics have little relevance to the preoccupations of modern political theory with authority and obligation. This work considers the ethical underpinning of Aristotle's political thought, the normativity of his political theory, and the concepts of political authority and obligation themselves. Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; JP; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 611. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034674
ISBN
9780199251506
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 charts/graphs, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: DSBB; HP; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034678
ISBN
9780801440878
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. This book provides an interpretation of Plato from the point of view of dramatic characterization. Num Pages: 466 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 765. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034693
ISBN
9780521793001
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages Num Pages: 481 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADL; DSBB; HPCB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 784. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034736
ISBN
9780472113088
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

paperback. Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy in creative and liberating ways. This book looks at the wide geographical scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, since the seventh century and representing Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Islamic experiences. Editor(s): White, David Gordon. Series: Princeton Readings in Religions. Num Pages: 664 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKN; 1FPCT; 1FPJ; DQ; DSB; GTB; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 938. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034742
ISBN
9780691057798
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034761
ISBN
9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

hardcover. Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660-1780, and the reactions against it. Series Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John. Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature & Thought. Num Pages: 292 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600. Volume I only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034813
ISBN
9780521383400
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

paperback. Focusing on the poems rather than their authors, this introduction to Persian Sufi poetry surveys the relation between Sufism and literature and also examines the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry, and symbolic narrative. Series: Routledge Sufi Series. Num Pages: 150 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0034844
ISBN
9780700703128
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

Hardcover. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Third Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308791
ISBN
9780226308791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.22

Paperback. A collection of poems that attempts to understand a wife's situation within the long history of military wives left to wait and wonder. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810152144
ISBN
9780810152144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. This collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together criticism on some important playwrights of the 20th century, including Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman, as well as less studied writers such as Naomi Wallace. Editor(s): McDonald, Robert L.; Paige, Linda Rohrer. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817310806
ISBN
9780817310806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780905223483
ISBN
9780905223483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.86

Hardback. 13pp. 8/100, signed and numbered by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The Orwell Press
Publication date
1929
SKU
KHS1003942
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 275.00

Hardcover. 434pp. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and don Bolognese. Keywords: International Literature, Fiction
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
SKU
KON0827519
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651514
ISBN
9780691651514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.77

Paperback. First edition. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publisher
KARA Writers Workshop
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publication date
2011
SKU
KAK0008081
ISBN
9780954143732
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. "Bound in pictoral green cloth with white title on front and spine. Cloth is worn at spine ends and spine edges, corners slightly bumped and worn, slight staining to cover, page edges uncut, endpages slightly stained, inscription on front endpage." Keywords: Irish Fiction
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Century Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1902
SKU
KHS0077908
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 38.00

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