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Paperback. Takes readers on a geographic journey through Dante's underworld circle by circle - from the Dark Wood down to the ninth circle of Hell - in much the same way Dante and Virgil proceed in their infernal descent. Each chapter of this book begins with a summary of the action, followed by entries, significant verses, and useful study questions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 212 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226702681
- ISBN
- 9780226702681
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564320
- ISBN
- 9781137564320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Hardback. This work argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CFP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239954
- ISBN
- 9780312239954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.25
€ 64.25
Paperback. Editor(s): Ebbesen, Sten. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899237
- ISBN
- 9788772899237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631858
- ISBN
- 9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.42
€ 51.42
Paperback. This is a study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the 19th century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; TDPB; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738729
- ISBN
- 9780804738729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346661
- ISBN
- 9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Paperback. A study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere about women in the poem. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031982
- ISBN
- 9780674031982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.78
€ 27.99
€ 24.78
Paperback. This title is a selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. Num Pages: 95 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547023
- ISBN
- 9781857547023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.52
€ 13.99
€ 12.52
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
€ 98.17
Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329954
- ISBN
- 9780822329954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HRCL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632278
- ISBN
- 9780691632278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.81
€ 108.81
Paperback. A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. It covers the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. It features theories of Native literature, the history of Native literature studies, and themes of trauma and memory as well as changing mythologies. Editor(s): Pulitano, Elvira. Num Pages: 336 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260344
- ISBN
- 9780803260344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.49
€ 27.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. Offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of his important writings of the post-war period Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251032
- ISBN
- 9780823251032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardback. This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847696086
- ISBN
- 9780847696086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.34
€ 175.34
Paperback. Poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119915
- ISBN
- 9780691119915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
€ 33.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062537
- ISBN
- 9780252062537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.98
€ 23.99
€ 21.98
paperback. The writing of HD is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to post-modernists. This book examines the "ongoingness" of HD's writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075919
- ISBN
- 9780252075919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.52
€ 32.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 665.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729369
- ISBN
- 9780804729369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.43
€ 96.43
paperback. A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140435313
- ISBN
- 9780140435313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.64
€ 10.99
€ 9.64
Paperback. Traces the rich legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of different groups of people - conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers - over the centuries. This book argues that we cannot defend the Amazon's array of plants and animals without comprehending its astonishing human and cultural diversity. Num Pages: 332 pages, 41 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; DSB; GTB; HBJK; RGBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226425
- ISBN
- 9780520226425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Robert D. Reed Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931741637
- ISBN
- 9781931741637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.49
€ 11.49
Hardcover. Uncovers the history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, this title offers an exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226857923
- ISBN
- 9780226857923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.21€ 50.66
€ 59.21
€ 50.66
paperback. This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674399457
- ISBN
- 9780674399457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.05€ 48.43
€ 52.05
€ 48.43