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Paperback. This book, now in paperback, shows how the fantasy tradition culminating in Pullman's His Dark Materials inherits the Romantic quest to transpose spiritual and moral values, once the prerogrative of organized religion, into new myths. Wary of escapist fantasy, it explores how stories can generate a new vision. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272859
- ISBN
- 9780230272859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
hardcover. Emily Dickinson, one of the American poets of the 19th century, is known for her preferred seclusion from the outside world. Many of her poems were published posthumously, as she kept her writing private. This guide offers perceptive interpretations of Dickinson and her creative output. It helps students explore the poet and her much-debated work. Editor(s): Bloom, Prof. Harold. Series: Modern Critical Views S. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publications United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780791096130
- ISBN
- 9780791096130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.86
€ 61.86
The Symbolic Design of Windsor-Forest. Iconography, Pageant, and Proph...
Rogers, Pat; Rosenberg, Marvin
Hardback. A study of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, this text reveals how he used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court - masque, architecture and heraldry - to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. The text shows the centrality of ?Windsor-Forest? in Pope's career and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138375
- ISBN
- 9780874138375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226329659
- ISBN
- 9780226329659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.72€ 78.69
€ 93.72
€ 78.69
Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270627
- ISBN
- 9781137270627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.92€ 47.00
€ 53.92
€ 47.00
Hardcover. Wang Yun (1749-1819) was a famous playwright in imperial China. Her play "A Dream of Glory" is a significant full length chaunqi written by a woman about a woman's dream and desire. This volume provides an English translation with detailed annotations and introduction of traditional Chinese women's drama. Translator(s): Wu, Qingyun. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629963095
- ISBN
- 9789629963095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
Hardcover. Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War presents a new cultural history of Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, examining the often-neglected period before the onset of the Troubles and exploring work by the generation of artists and writers that preceded Seamus Heaney and his contemporaries. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198716853
- ISBN
- 9780198716853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.55
€ 158.55
Paperback. This collection brings together the many diverse political extents of early 19th-century British feminism, as well as representing the works of literary figures such as Shelley, Tennyson and the Brontes. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DQ; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333726136
- ISBN
- 9780333726136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.35
€ 54.35
Paperback. Translator(s): Macmillan, Peter. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 248 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141392578
- ISBN
- 9780141392578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.29
€ 12.99
€ 11.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403965134
- ISBN
- 9781403965134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781380307
- ISBN
- 9781781380307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 6.23
€ 17.99
€ 6.23
Hardback. A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world. Editor(s): Cox, Elizabeth; McAvoy, Liz Herbert; Magnani, Roberta. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 215 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844037
- ISBN
- 9781843844037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.53
€ 98.53
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lazo, Rodrigo; Aleman, Jesse. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479896837
- ISBN
- 9781479896837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.31
€ 96.31
In Cervantes and the Literature of War, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649125
- ISBN
- 9781442649125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754194
- ISBN
- 9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. This study shows how the "rewriting" of Shakespeare's plays serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy and postmodernism - via the "Tempest" characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; DSGS; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295486
- ISBN
- 9780312295486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster's literary and philosophical contributions. Editor(s): Kerkham, Eleanor. Num Pages: 279 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533886
- ISBN
- 9781349533886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This collection brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. Editor(s): Culleton, Claire A.; Leick, Karen. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601352
- ISBN
- 9780230601352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory. Editor(s): Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 8. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211914
- ISBN
- 9780631211914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.14
€ 32.14
Paperback. Novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories. This title recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New York and London. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927800
- ISBN
- 9780813927800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
Paperback. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new the distinctly modern." Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459841
- ISBN
- 9781349459841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Editor(s): Gerrard, Christine. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 624 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1214.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113168
- ISBN
- 9781405113168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 219.59
€ 219.59
Hardcover. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662404
- ISBN
- 9780745662404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.45
€ 73.45
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691601434
- ISBN
- 9780691601434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12