×


 x 

Shopping cart

English

Results 5261 - 5280 of 9003

English

Hardcover. Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes's Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes's experiences in South Yorkshire - in town and country, educationally, in literature and love - were decisive in forming him as the poet of his subsequent fame. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137499349
ISBN
9781137499349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.01

Hardcover. When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses, the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137488404
ISBN
9781137488404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.95

Hardcover. This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Steele, Karen; De Nie, Michael. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137428707
ISBN
9781137428707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardcover. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137371744
ISBN
9781137371744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.63

Hardcover. This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research. Editor(s): Bennett, Susan; Polito, Mary. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AMG; ANF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137320162
ISBN
9781137320162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

Hardcover. This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses-theorized as contamination and containment-explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137288646
ISBN
9781137288646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Kumar, Rajiv. Num Pages: 786 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; MJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
786
Condition
New
SKU
V9780898386202
ISBN
9780898386202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 359.64

Hardback. Series: Vox Humana. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896032620
ISBN
9780896032620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.67

Hardback. In David Cope's strikingly intense new collection, Fragments for the Stars, we see the continued development of a highly original art. Rising directly out of Williams' graphic American measure, Cope's voice is everywhere infused with a characteristic stark lyricism-producing the powerful work that Carl Rakosi has called his "compassionate realism." Series: Vox Humana. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896031722
ISBN
9780896031722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.21

Paperback. Presents a developmental crosslinguistic and cross-orthographic perspective on learning to write from preschool up to university level. This book includes research in three different writing systems (Roman, Hebrew, and Chinese) and six languages (Chinese, German, English, French, Hebrew, and Spanish) in different knowledge dimensions of writing. Editor(s): Tolchinsky, Liliana. Series: Studies in Writing. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CJCW; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792370635
ISBN
9780792370635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.70

Hardback. The Logic of Metaphor uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. This book treats lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792370048
ISBN
9780792370048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Hardback. Editor(s): Tolchinsky, Liliana. Series: Studies in Writing. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CJCW; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792369790
ISBN
9780792369790
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.17

Hardback. Uncovers the work of seven Renaissance Bible translator-revisers and argues for an agenda to replace the outmoded and inappropriate one of evaluating Renaissance Bibles according to the extent of their influence on the 1611 King James Authorised Version. Series: Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; HPCB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792369554
ISBN
9780792369554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.62

Hardback. Based on an edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to controversial problems in linguistics. It states that aspect is the result of a complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. It also talks about the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792365389
ISBN
9780792365389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.49

Hardback. Presents a study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. This book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2CSJ; CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792364092
ISBN
9780792364092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.32

Hardback. Contains chapters which focus on spelling. This book includes papers which focus on spelling as a linguistic process, examining the phonological and morphological factors that make certain words easier or harder to spell than others. Editor(s): Treiman, Rebecca. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CJ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Reprinted from READING AND WRITING, 9:5-6, 1998
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792349587
ISBN
9780792349587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

Hardback. Presents a unified theory of aspect within Universal Grammar. This title combines syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, and offers linguistic analyses of five languages with very different aspectual systems: English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Navajo and Russian. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 2AGR; 2GDC; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
2nd ed. 1997
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792346579
ISBN
9780792346579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 244.85

Hardback. Presents an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously. This work presents a reading of Hobbes's view of society at large, and political society in particular, through a comprehensive discussion based on, and intimately linked to, his philosophy of language. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792344254
ISBN
9780792344254
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.11

Hardback. This text, based on principle-based linguistic theories for English, argues that differences in the kind of information being computed, whether lexical, structural or syntactic, play a crucial role in the mapping from grammatical theory to parsing algorithms. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; UYQL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792341031
ISBN
9780792341031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.85

Hardback. Analyzes the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification. This work is intended for researchers and students in syntax, semantics and their interface. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADR; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792338048
ISBN
9780792338048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.17

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!