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Hardback. An English translation of Cervantes' final novel, an exotic romance, and the novel he considered to be his finest. Translator(s): Weller, Celia Richmond; Colahan, Clark A. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209718
ISBN
9780872209718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.02
€ 45.61

Hardback. Notwithstanding the economic hardship Russian people are experiencing, their cultural life is as rich and alive as ever, as Gerald Janecek shows us in this collection of his articles on contemporary Russian poetry, which are especially written for this publication or so far only available in Russian. Series: Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH; DSC; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811486
ISBN
9781571811486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.00

Paperback. Presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work. Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the neglected later ones, the contributors illuminate little-known aspects of this daring author's work, and highlight his accomplishments as an experimental writer. Editor(s): Miller, D. Quentin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566397377
ISBN
9781566397377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 38.62

paperback. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315476
ISBN
9780822315476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; PSAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490220
ISBN
9781611490220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476631
ISBN
9780801476631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Comparisons between 'the History of David's Rise' and the Hittite 'Apology of Hattusili', in particular, appear to support this view that the biblical account belongs to the genre of ancient Near Eastern royal apology. This title argues that the biblical account has less in common with the Hittite apology than scholars have asserted. Series: Harvard Theological Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRAM2; HRCF1; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard Divinity School Theological Studies United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053410
ISBN
9780674053410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.61

Paperback. A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311447
ISBN
9780822311447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754443
ISBN
9780838754443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11

Paperback. Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226873800
ISBN
9780226873800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.01

Hardcover. The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England. Series: Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis). Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802038371
ISBN
9780802038371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.63

Hardback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721684
ISBN
9780804721684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.77

Paperback. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. This work explores the rich historical and literary backgrounds of this distinctly Irish phenomenon. It discusses the major works of both authors. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 illustrations, notes, bibiography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631484
ISBN
9780815631484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.27

Hardcover. La Fontaine was a great French lyric poet of the 17th century. This study is almost as much about Louis XIV as about La Fontaine. It provides analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the King to enforce an official cultural style, and the plight of the artist under such a ruler. Translator(s): Todd, Jean Marie. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; BGH; BGR; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1025.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038779
ISBN
9780268038779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.12

Paperback. Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. The author explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art. She discusses about objects and attributes that test our perceptions. Num Pages: 232 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226271347
ISBN
9780226271347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Editor(s): Calotychos, Vangelis. Num Pages: 258 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474657
ISBN
9781611474657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.32

Paperback. Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137503688
ISBN
9781137503688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.25

Hardback. Taking an innovative approach, Jane Winston's "Postcolonial Duras" radically revises our understanding of both Duras and a crucial swath of French cultural and literary history by studying each one through the lens of the other. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312240004
ISBN
9780312240004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 179 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772898605
ISBN
9788772898605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

Paperback. A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. Series: Continuum Contemporaries Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114. A Reader's Guide. Series: Continuum Contemporaries Series. 96 pages. A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 191 x 133 x 7. Weight: 118.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826414786
ISBN
9780826414786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.84

Paperback. Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Penguin Edition
SKU
KSS0000121
ISBN
9780140063837
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life. Series: Theory Q. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 5S; APFA; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361756
ISBN
9780822361756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Hardback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854113627
ISBN
9781854113627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.14

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135384
ISBN
9781571135384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.17

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