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Paperback. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 217.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349225378
- ISBN
- 9781349225378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.19
€ 126.19
Hardcover. Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her novels affect individual psychologies and how Janeites experience her work, from visiting her home to public re-enactments to films based on her writings. Editor(s): Raw, Laurence; Dryden, Robert G. Num Pages: 305 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034434
- ISBN
- 9781137034434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730013
- ISBN
- 9780804730013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.27
€ 91.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720434
- ISBN
- 9780804720434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.77
€ 70.77
Hardcover. Drawing from the fields of literature, politics, law and history, the contributors make visible the political and ethical terms of "Invisible Man", while simultaneously illuminating Ellison's understanding of democracy and art. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123127
- ISBN
- 9780813123127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.86
€ 49.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrubuch. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APT; BGL; DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780985195618
- ISBN
- 9780985195618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.86
€ 79.86
Hardback. A study of the "Homeric Centos", a pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". This text introduces readers to the poem as a comparative reading of Homer and the bible, based upon inter-textual associations. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 192 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689996
- ISBN
- 9780847689996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.14
€ 168.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 217.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349072798
- ISBN
- 9781349072798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.19
€ 126.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691164496
- ISBN
- 9780691164496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.72€ 41.90
€ 52.72
€ 41.90
Hardcover. In this study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008618
- ISBN
- 9780674008618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.48
€ 54.99
€ 46.48
Paperback. Taboo words are the subject of this text, which traces the psychic origins of dirty words to early infancy and childhood, and their place and value in life and analytic therapy. It refers to "dirty" words used by Rabelais, Quevado, Mozart, Voltaire, the Marquis de Sade, Joyce and Lawrence. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: CFD; CFF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1st softcover ed
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568217994
- ISBN
- 9781568217994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.56
€ 99.56
Hardback. This examination of his fiction and non-fiction reveals Huxley's significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion, science and literature, and provides examples of the transmission or refraction of knowledge from one discourse to another. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333637678
- ISBN
- 9780333637678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, Andre Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent him from achieving lasting distinction and impact? Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBH; DSK; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402691
- ISBN
- 9781137402691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403935731
- ISBN
- 9781403935731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312217266
- ISBN
- 9780312217266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Paperback. aeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. . Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631200932
- ISBN
- 9780631200932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.74
€ 59.74
Hardback. This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272293
- ISBN
- 9780230272293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.88
€ 116.88
Paperback. Presents an introduction to Japanese fiction. This book profiles the writers Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Ko bo, and Shiba Ryo taro. It also describes the author's personal encounters with thesm and his literary and cultural analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126113
- ISBN
- 9780231126113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.43
€ 29.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349522002
- ISBN
- 9781349522002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244238
- ISBN
- 9780230244238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
hardcover. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092298
- ISBN
- 9780802092298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.70
€ 84.70
paperback. This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 246 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349442959
- ISBN
- 9781349442959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
paperback. The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the devil?s nebulous character reflects anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802083692
- ISBN
- 9780802083692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Paperback. Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, but there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a Mixture looks at characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, who display autistic traits. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JM; MJN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843104995
- ISBN
- 9781843104995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.45
€ 34.45