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Paperback. Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate' Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691029238
ISBN
9780691029238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 41.35

Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015064
ISBN
9780691015064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.49
€ 50.21

Paperback. Alicia Ostriker Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691013909
ISBN
9780691013909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.27

Paperback. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 82 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691013794
ISBN
9780691013794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Princeton University Press Princeton
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691013053
ISBN
9780691013053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.49
€ 49.84

Hardcover. Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; LA; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011998
ISBN
9780691011998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.88
€ 81.84

Hardback. Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674806252
ISBN
9780674806252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.89
€ 78.93

Multiple-component retail product. This two-volume set presents and contextualizes major manuscripts in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, now at The New York Public Library. The volumes open with a retrospective centered on the young Shelley, and conclude with letters dating from Shelley's exile in Italy. Num Pages: 1344 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 229 x 88. Weight in Grams: 4362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Abridged
Number of pages
1344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674806146
ISBN
9780674806146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.52
€ 165.52

Hardcover. This volume on classical philology includes, among others, the following contributions: Francis Cairns, "Virgil Eclogue 1.1-2: A literary Program?"; John Hunt, "Readings in Apollonius of Tyre"; Alexander Jones, "Geminus and the Isia"; and Peter Knox "Lucretius on the Narrow Road". Editor(s): Segal, Charles; Henrichs, Albert; Higbie, Carolyn; Jones, Christopher; Nagy, Gregory. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 426 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AHA; CF; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379473
ISBN
9780674379473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.69

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674111301
ISBN
9780674111301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.16
€ 69.04

Paperback. Walden s Shore explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press." Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780674088184
ISBN
9780674088184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 2AB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780674081253
ISBN
9780674081253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.85
€ 72.86

paperback. In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, the author examines the connection between style and substance. Analyzing the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney and Jorie Graham, the book discusses the interplay of moral, emotional and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674081215
ISBN
9780674081215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.23

Hardback. Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. This book explores this dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, while taking into account the developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and post-modern psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023475
ISBN
9780674023475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.57
€ 53.65

Hardback. Offering powerful new perspectives on Lincoln, Emerson, Whitman and Melville, Meltzer reveals how the Constitution counterintuitively generated such oft-noted tendencies as these writers' penchant for self-contradiction, their willingness to court radical discontinuity, and their intensely conflicted, romance-directed fictions. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674019126
ISBN
9780674019126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.95
€ 61.73

Paperback. This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of native California includes a selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs drawn from a wide sampling of California's many native cultures. Introductions provide cultural and biographical context. Editor(s): Luthin, Herbert W. Num Pages: 651 pages, 12 black & white photographs, 5 maps, 4 musical examples, 1 line figure, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2ABM; DQ; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 926.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Annotated.
Number of pages
651
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520222700
ISBN
9780520222700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Hardback. Brings together Thomas Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects. This title includes essays on the French Revolution, Cromwell, Frederick the Great, and medieval Scandinavia. It also includes a historical introduction and illustrations along with textual apparatus. Editor(s): Vanden Bossche, Chris Ramon. Series: Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle. Num Pages: 1256 pages, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 70. Weight in Grams: 1430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
1256
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780520220614
ISBN
9780520220614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.50
€ 74.53

Paperback. Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. This title features translated poems, in which, Dan Pagis' voice can be heard celebrating the human spirit. Translator(s): Mitchell, Stephen. Series: Literature of the Middle East. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 2ABM; DCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 36.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205390
ISBN
9780520205390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.41

Paperback. Participants in the current debate regarding the literary canon generally separate the established literary order - of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon - from emerging minority literatures. This study insists that the two realms should be brought together. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520086463
ISBN
9780520086463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.10

Hardcover. Includes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. Num Pages: 600 pages, 100 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 263 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520043541
ISBN
9780520043541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49
€ 50.50

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