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Hardcover. Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification. Editor(s): Andermahr, Sonya; Pellicer-Ortin, Silvia. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268341
- ISBN
- 9781137268341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. An examination of Sophocles' "Antigone" in the context of its setting in 5th-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of 5th-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847692163
- ISBN
- 9780847692163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.35
€ 184.35
Paperback. Editor(s): Falkeid, Unn, PhD. Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oslo Academic Press Norway
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788274773479
- ISBN
- 9788274773479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016795
- ISBN
- 9780691016795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 51.34
€ 64.77
€ 51.34
Paperback. A new translation of a long-neglected Greek drama that has become increasingly popular in classrooms and on the stage. The two editors, Alan Shapiro and Peter Burian, a poet and classicist, collaborated previously on The Oresteia. This is the final volume of the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series. Editor(s): Burian, Peter. Translator(s): Shapiro, Alan. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and previous owners name written in pen on title page
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEA0000122
- ISBN
- 9780195179101
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.72
€ 12.72
Paperback. Contests the notion that women occupied a separate private sphere in England during the Romantic Era. This title demonstrates the various ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behaviour in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. Series: Women of Letters S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213693
- ISBN
- 9780253213693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
€ 18.99
€ 18.76
Hardcover. This fully revised second edition of "The Modern Arabic Short Story" is an anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been translated and collected with an introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSBH; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333641361
- ISBN
- 9780333641361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Haight, Gordon S.; VanArsdel, T. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349059713
- ISBN
- 9781349059713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739145531
- ISBN
- 9780739145531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.80
€ 154.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312129040
- ISBN
- 9780312129040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fiol-Matta, Licia; Quiroga, Jose A. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLC; 2ADS; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403962867
- ISBN
- 9781403962867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Looking for some new business insights? Forget about Wall Street. Learn a lesson or two from Arthur Miller and David Mamet on Broadway. Put down Forbes and Fortune for once and spend an evening with Chaucer and George Bernard Shaw. You'll pass an enjoyable evening and discover some fresh new management perspectives. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; DSB; DSK; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471371687
- ISBN
- 9780471371687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.99
€ 34.99
€ 27.99
Paperback. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced, but a major poet of the 20th century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This is a selection of his work. Editor(s): Hunt, Tim. Num Pages: 776 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 776
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741088
- ISBN
- 9780804741088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.30
€ 46.99
€ 42.30
Paperback. A study of the Elizabethan text, Holinshed's "Chronicles" - a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Patterson argues that the chronicles should be read in their own right, as an important and inventive cultural history, rather than simply as source material for Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226649122
- ISBN
- 9780226649122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. The most authoritative edition and study of the Spanish playwright and musician Lucas Fernandez's Farsas y eglogas. Editor(s): Maurizi, Francoise. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie B, Textos. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662957
- ISBN
- 9781855662957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardcover. The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZP; AVGH; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219984
- ISBN
- 9780230219984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349496938
- ISBN
- 9781349496938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647678
- ISBN
- 9780691647678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Paperback. This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371112
- ISBN
- 9781349371112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The Middle Kingdom (c 1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This book studies this literary legacy. It reassesses the Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on studies of the individual texts. It explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible. Series: Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 2CXG; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845537708
- ISBN
- 9781845537708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
Paperback. Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies from one of the field's most prominent figures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405158572
- ISBN
- 9781405158572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.72
€ 42.72
paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- V9780312400378
- ISBN
- 9780312400378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.70
€ 43.99
€ 37.70
Paperback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780823242559
- ISBN
- 9780823242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
€ 33.99
€ 30.67
Hardback. Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104969
- ISBN
- 9780230104969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65