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Hardback. This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; AN; DSBB; DSG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 194 x 21. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119089858
- ISBN
- 9781119089858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.94
€ 113.94
Hardback. The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Howe, Anthony. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 733 pages, 1 black-and-white halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 733
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199558360
- ISBN
- 9780199558360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 256.16
€ 256.16
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349296651
- ISBN
- 9781349296651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740463
- ISBN
- 9780804740463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. Addressing the 'lack of discussion of Tolkien's style' in scholarly interrogations of that writer, this book uncovers the multifaceted appeal of Tolkien's prose style. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269447
- ISBN
- 9781137269447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
Hardback. This volume contains a series of close readings of the central works of gay male drama, as written by American and English playwrights. The plays discussed reflect the transformation of gay men in 20th-century British and American societies. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 393 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 393
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231075107
- ISBN
- 9780231075107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.64€ 80.25
€ 103.64
€ 80.25
Paperback. * A jargon--free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. * Examines the main strands of twentieth--century fiction, including post--war, post--imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post--realist novel. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405100496
- ISBN
- 9781405100496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.69
€ 47.69
hardcover. Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649743
- ISBN
- 9781442649743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Hardback. This path--breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural history, and to all those who want a fresh perspective on the history of books and their uses. Editor(s): Cavallo, Guglielmo; Chartier, Roger. Num Pages: 488 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; GL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619361
- ISBN
- 9780745619361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.85
€ 79.85
Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674780286
- ISBN
- 9780674780286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.15
€ 42.99
€ 36.15
Hardcover. A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Wilson, Janet. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277731
- ISBN
- 9780230277731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
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
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover. This 1982 collection examines Ireland's relations with the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. Editor(s): Whitelock, Dorothy; McKitterick, Rosamond; Dumville, David. Num Pages: 410 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 791. Nice clean copy in dustjacket. Scarce
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8038956
- ISBN
- 9780521235471
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Hardback. Critical studies of Turgenev have tended to focus on his realistic portrayals of nineteenth-century Russian life and have therefore closely allied Turgenev with the dominant literary movement of that time, Realism. This book reveals the non-Realist literary patterns that distinguish Turgenev's fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718738
- ISBN
- 9780804718738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.89
€ 98.89
Hardback. This text charts the changes in Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking at a range of fictions by women from various ethnocultural backgrounds, it examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239008
- ISBN
- 9780312239008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception history of the poems of Ossian, this book examines a uniquely modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the rapidly changing landscapes of an industrial world. -- Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 206 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938172
- ISBN
- 9780813938172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.58
€ 57.58
Paperback. * Provides an entirely new approach to the subject of post--colonialism which will completely re--orientate the field. * Unique to this Reader is a section on Ireland which highlights a new approach to resistance to empire. * Offers students a sense of the heterogeneity and plurality of the field. Editor(s): Castle, Gregory. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 170 x 30. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631210054
- ISBN
- 9780631210054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.96
€ 55.96
Hardcover. This book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549570
- ISBN
- 9781137549570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403974457
- ISBN
- 9781403974457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in 21st C. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615281
- ISBN
- 9780230615281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This paperback edition includes a new preface. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; APFA; DSBH; JFC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279650
- ISBN
- 9780230279650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Paperback. This book discusses the treatment of the theme of reading and writing within a major Middle High German Arthurian romance: Albrecht's J"ungerer Titurel."" Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349531776
- ISBN
- 9781349531776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
paperback. Series: Focus on. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 5. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075286
- ISBN
- 9781906075286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
€ 13.99
€ 13.48
paperback. Editor(s): Pavel, Thomas G. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816613755
- ISBN
- 9780816613755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.49
€ 27.99
€ 26.49