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Paperback. Written in 1727, "The Art of Sinking in Poetry" was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496928
ISBN
9781847496928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.46

Hardcover. The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137541345
ISBN
9781137541345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.04

Hardback. As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors. Editor(s): Dunst, Alexander; Schlensag, Stefan. Num Pages: 246 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137414588
ISBN
9781137414588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.62

Hardback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; APF; DSB; DSGS; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148481
ISBN
9780231148481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.32
€ 83.75

Hardback. Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity. Editor(s): Huang, Professor Alexander C. Y.; Rivlin, Elizabeth J. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137375766
ISBN
9781137375766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Paperback. A critical book on Virgina Woolf that places her world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. It is a penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work. Num Pages: 375 pages, 2Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520061842
ISBN
9780520061842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Hardback. The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844662
ISBN
9781843844662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Hardcover. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674282483
ISBN
9780674282483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.79
€ 51.77

Hardcover. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137346339
ISBN
9781137346339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this guide to Roy's novel offers an introduction to the text and contexts of "The God of Small Things". It also presents a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text. It is aimed at those beginning detailed study of "The God of Small Things". Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415358439
ISBN
9780415358439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Hardcover. Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137394378
ISBN
9781137394378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. Read and discover all about our galaxy and everything in the universe.. What are stars made of? When did the first person walk on the Moon? Num Pages: 56 pages, full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; ELH. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780194645607
ISBN
9780194645607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.89

Paperback. The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of After Anna and Killing Kate. Your stalker is everywhere. Your stalker knows everything. But the real problem is that your stalker is you. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBBEN; 2ABM; 3JMG; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008199746
ISBN
9780008199746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Contains sixteen contributions by fellow linguists that include papers on the English progressive; predication and the nominal clause; the use of mood and modal verbs in Italian and Danish; some Norwegian discourse particles and their English correspondences; and, tendencies in the syntax of the verb in American and British English. Editor(s): Bache, Carl; Klinge, Alex. Num Pages: 286 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 175 x 21. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778383075
ISBN
9788778383075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.57

Paperback. Alex Horne loves words so much, in fact, that he's decided to invent his own and get them into the dictionary. But, as Alex discovers, gaining entry into the official lexicon takes more than just a gentle word in the ear of the editor. Evidence is required. Alex needs proof that his words are being spoken by more people than just him and his mum. Num Pages: 336 pages, Integrated line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Virgin Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905264612
ISBN
9781905264612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.95

Hardback. Explores the theoretical concerns of literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, this work significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230500495
ISBN
9780230500495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. * An overview of the topic of technology in literature, covering the span from late Victorian innovations, through modernism and the cold war, to computing and the internet. * Brings together a wide range of literature in a concise, student-oriented fashion. Series: Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745639543
ISBN
9780745639543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 2AB; 3JMG; FA; FRD. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008206697
ISBN
9780008206697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardback. Editor(s): Tickell, Alex. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137403537
ISBN
9781137403537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.98

Hardback. This assessment of American literary history explores the ways in which the interplay of written and oral forms shaped the foundations of both national literature and political identity. It examines numerous texts, written from colonial to modern times, considering how speech and writing interact. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231084987
ISBN
9780231084987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.56
€ 80.25

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