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hardcover. Exemplarity and Mediocrity explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758901
- ISBN
- 9780804758901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.20
€ 81.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4,500 entries. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACSN; CBDX; WTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781809559
- ISBN
- 9780781809559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.54
€ 14.99
€ 14.54
paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; HPCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780940322509
- ISBN
- 9780940322509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.33
€ 20.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. Written to fill the need for a core text in third-year German conversation and composition course, Der treffende Ausdruck became, upon publication, the leading book in its field. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CF; CJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393968231
- ISBN
- 9780393968231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; increasing and consolidating your vocabulary and moving on from school-book German. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340806623
- ISBN
- 9780340806623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. A companion for traveling - especially if you are a first-timer with little or no foreign language experience. It covers topics ranging from days, months, currencies, and clothing sizes to food, shelter, and medical assistance. Series: Just Enough Phrasebook Series. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CJBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 104 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780071492225
- ISBN
- 9780071492225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.30
€ 11.30
Paperback. From a modernist/postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. It reveals that since 17th century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. It argues that American literature has always been essentially modern. Num Pages: 480 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACG; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140144352
- ISBN
- 9780140144352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.53
€ 21.99
€ 19.53
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110878
- ISBN
- 9780230110878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACSX; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120426
- ISBN
- 9780230120426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.08
€ 184.08
Hardcover. Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore and Sean O'Casey. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSN; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231993
- ISBN
- 9780230231993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Paperback. Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This paperback edition includes a new preface. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APFA; DSBH; JFC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279650
- ISBN
- 9780230279650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardcover. Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert,presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACS; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303690
- ISBN
- 9780230303690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341074
- ISBN
- 9780230341074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of prescriptivism on language change. Editor(s): Jones, Charles. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 235 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 3JF; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574410
- ISBN
- 9780230574410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312232818
- ISBN
- 9780312232818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.96
€ 67.96
Hardback. * An inspired parodic twist - the two least Jewish characters in American literature spout some of the edgy, ironic Yiddishisms that have become part of the American vernacular. Num Pages: 112 pages, Integrated: 35, watercolours. BIC Classification: 2ACY; CJBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316159722
- ISBN
- 9780316159722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.35
€ 19.99
€ 17.35
Hardback. This volume considers Emerson and Nietzsche primarily as post-theological religious thinkers and treats their understanding of the nature of religion and language. It argues that their critique of Christianity and rejection of transcendence is informed by their emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACG; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333569764
- ISBN
- 9780333569764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. This study explores the affinity between the Kafka and Pinter. The author offers an interpretation of Kafka's portrayal of the struggle between father and son in "The Judgment" and "The Metamorphosis" and examines the extent to which Pinter's treatment of the theme was influenced. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333631164
- ISBN
- 9780333631164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardcover. Margaret Drabble, Jeffrey Meyers, Catherine Peters, Ann Thwaite, Joseph Epstein and Ferdinand Mount, are among the 20 contributors of essays to this guide for those interested in the past and future of books and the publishing industry. Editor(s): Salwak, Dale. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSB; KNTP; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333714485
- ISBN
- 9780333714485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. This text is a comparative study of Romanticism on theories of education. It looks at the ideas presented by the romantics in late 18th-century Britain and Germany of what a university should be. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFCX; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 387.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718889
- ISBN
- 9780333718889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95