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Hardcover. Though Alexander the Great lived more than 17 centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. This title shows that the story of Alexander sowed the seeds of Iberian empire and foreshadowed the decline of Spanish influence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226037363
- ISBN
- 9780226037363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.21€ 50.25
€ 59.21
€ 50.25
paperback. With this scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made this long-neglected narrative poem, the Dit de l'alerion - a treatise on love and falconry - available to students of medieval literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781442626065
- ISBN
- 9781442626065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.38
€ 38.99
€ 35.38
Hardcover. This volume is an exploration of the innovative ways in which history, both as a narration of events and the events themselves, has been dealt with by three generations of women writers in modern Italy. The works of Anna Banti, Maria Bellonci, Dacia Maraini and Silvana La Spina are examined. Editor(s): Marotti, Maria Ornella; Brooke, Gabriella. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838637715
- ISBN
- 9780838637715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.27
€ 131.27
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
€ 81.27
€ 81.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583671863
- ISBN
- 9781583671863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.49
€ 20.99
€ 19.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501700019
- ISBN
- 9781501700019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. This volume of essays, arising from lectures given at the Synge Summer School, sets about the task of interpreting Synge, his relation to cultural and theatrical contexts, the significance of his plays, the quality of his language and the thematic matrices of his work. Editor(s): Grene, Nicholas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866476
- ISBN
- 9781901866476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 17.10
€ 20.00
€ 17.10
Hardback. Editor(s): Vena, Michael. Translator(s): Vena, Michael. Num Pages: 194 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838638941
- ISBN
- 9780838638941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.15
€ 112.15
Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758314
- ISBN
- 9780804758314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.34
€ 86.34
Paperback. The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. * Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113861
- ISBN
- 9781405113861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.53
€ 44.99
€ 44.53
Paperback. A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0021765
- ISBN
- 9780753807095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
hardcover. Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in principal texts of English Romanticism, this book argues that this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep social and political investment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804716499
- ISBN
- 9780804716499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691602165
- ISBN
- 9780691602165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.14€ 50.63
€ 65.14
€ 50.63
Hardcover. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. Editor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T.; Liu, Lydia H. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 620 pages, 94 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 620
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010987
- ISBN
- 9780674010987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.34€ 55.74
€ 60.34
€ 55.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448140
- ISBN
- 9780801448140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.44
€ 67.44
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Brien, John. Series: The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Pr
- Edition
- Summer 2003, Volume 23, No. 2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564783363
- ISBN
- 9781564783363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.57
€ 10.57
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010131
- ISBN
- 9781847010131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
paperback. Compares the self-representations of the US Mexicanas with the representations of academic-affiliated, intellectual Chicana writers and visual artists. This work looks at how the Chicana professional intellectuals and the US Mexicana women refigure demeaning constructions of female gender roles and racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; AC; DSBH; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343103
- ISBN
- 9780822343103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DNF; DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892634
- ISBN
- 9788772892634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.74
€ 44.99
€ 31.74
The author argues that in "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens updated "David Copperfield" and rewrote novels by various contemporaries. He parodically revised his competitor's themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic and imbued with Cinderella motifs. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122281
- ISBN
- 9780813122281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.25
€ 47.25
Paperback. Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022020
- ISBN
- 9780268022020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.06
€ 46.99
€ 42.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226098678
- ISBN
- 9780226098678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.45
€ 44.99
€ 34.45
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Heidelberger-Leonard, Irene; Wehdeking, Volker. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CB; DSB; JF; JN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531123813
- ISBN
- 9783531123813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.36
€ 80.36
Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611475050
- ISBN
- 9781611475050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.55
€ 137.55