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Paperback. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explore the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature. Series: The Senses in Antiquity. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA; HPN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844655625
- ISBN
- 9781844655625
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Condition: New
€ 48.59
€ 48.59
Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288809
- ISBN
- 9781349288809
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ward, Joseph Patrick. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609808
- ISBN
- 9780230609808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Paperback. American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes. This book argues that such novels are in fact psychologically complex and sophisticated works which demand that readers take responsibility for the images of masculinity that they project on to these works. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2; JKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814726914
- ISBN
- 9780814726914
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
hardcover. Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of "romanticism" emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847683932
- ISBN
- 9780847683932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.07
€ 187.07
Paperback. Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. This book analyzes the issues dramatized in those plays which reveal Americans to have been 'dis/contented' citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032966
- ISBN
- 9781137032966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 233 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, 16 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JM; DSBH; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319409634
- ISBN
- 9783319409634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.21
€ 129.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349051304
- ISBN
- 9781349051304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725590
- ISBN
- 9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.30
€ 55.30
Hardback. Translator(s): Rosenwald, Lawrence. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 508 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BGH; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1085.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632162
- ISBN
- 9780691632162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.25
€ 241.25
Hardback. This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726627
- ISBN
- 9780804726627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.98
€ 98.98
Hardback. An examination of drunkenness and the writer in the Romantic age. Areas of focus include: Wordsworth's poems and essays on the drunken career of Robert Burns; Charles Lamb's essays and letters; and Coleridge's drinking songs and essays about drunkenness. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSG; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333725214
- ISBN
- 9780333725214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.33
€ 119.33
Hardcover. The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores this already internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381378
- ISBN
- 9781137381378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. An exploration of the relationship between US political and social thought and literary consciousness in the early post-war years in which the author analyzes the efforts by writers to reshape their "old" liberalism into a "new" sceptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil. Series: History of American Thought & Culture S. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JPFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004273
- ISBN
- 9780299128449
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403964113
- ISBN
- 9781403964113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294694
- ISBN
- 9780312294694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Paperback. A study of Dante from an Arabo-Islamic perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; HRAB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532926
- ISBN
- 9781349532926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.11
€ 54.99
€ 44.11
Hardback. From his forays into science fiction to his psychological novels and films, Abe Kobo weaves together a range of 'voices': the styles of science and the language of literary forms. This book argues that the crisis of identity and postwar anomie in Abe's works is inseparable from the need to marshal these different scientific and literary voices. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032781
- ISBN
- 9780674032781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.59
€ 45.99
€ 37.59
Hardcover. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036010
- ISBN
- 9780268036010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
Hardback. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children's literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405346
- ISBN
- 9781421405346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.70€ 48.92
€ 53.70
€ 48.92
Hardcover. Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 1HFGK; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338654
- ISBN
- 9780230338654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
paperback. Editor(s): Hoffmann, Lukas. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transcript Publishing Germany
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837636611
- ISBN
- 9783837636611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.32
€ 51.99
€ 36.32
Paperback. Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprun, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust." Editor(s): Herrmann, G.; Ferran, Ofelia. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 334 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBG; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458592
- ISBN
- 9781349458592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64